WIP-Cracking Wednesday: Zooming, Bombing, and Sculpting

WARNING: This post contains a ridiculous number of pictures.

Part 1: Zooming

The photo prompt today was “extreme close up,” which is what I frequently seem to do anyway. This time I decided to see just how close I could get.

Staging and lighting: While I was out and about I decided to zoom in on an art installation. It was about 3 pm and partly cloudy. I took the photo about an inch away from the surface of the piece.

Just for fun, I Instagrammed the full photo of the art piece too. I like it better than the reference photo.

Anyway, back to the actual challenge photo…

Instagram edits: Lux, Mayfair filter and border

Instagrammed

Computer edits: cropped, enhanced, increased definition and sharpness to the max

edited with iPhoto

It’s hard to go wrong with something this abstract, but for the Instagram version I went with the filter that gave the biggest range of colors without darkening the photo. For the computer edit I wanted to bring out all the cool bubble shapes in the glass, so that’s why I pumped up the definition and sharpness. They both turned out awesome!

Part 2: Bombing

You may have noticed that for once my challenge photo is not in my house or my backyard. The reason I was lured out of my cave in the first place was because I needed to do a fitting for my yarnbombing. I have a whole section seamed together at this point, and many more pieces pinned together, but I needed to actually put those pieces up on the light pole to see how they all might fit together and how much more I need to do.

The main section I have seamed together fits on the lower part of the base quite nicely. I just need to smooth out the edges.

I purposefully did not seam together enough pieces to fit all the way around the pole yet. I needed to figure out where I would stitch up the piece when installation day comes. I think I will stitch it up along the corner to the right of the tentacle.

So now I just need to add about 7 inches worth of pieces to the other end of this section so it can reach the tentacle corner.

This strip of swatches should help pull the bottom section in tight around the middle of the base and prevent it from slipping down.

I had another strip of swatches that I wanted to use for the top of the piece to hold the whole thing up, but it didn’t quite fit around the rounded section I had initially intended it for.

It fits perfectly above the rounded section though, and it should help hold the piece up even better with that lip in the way!

Part 3: Sculpting

I made a LOT of progress on Ducky this week! I worked on filling in the holes around the left cheek.

Then I smoothed out the shape of the cheek.

I filled out the head shape some more and started building the brow ridges.

Then I attached the brow ridges and filled in the eyeballs. And with that, the sculpting of Ducky’s head was FINISHED!!!

I started coloring the nose and the brow ridges.

Ducky is really starting to look like Ducky!