I have added the third and final layer of leaves to the face of the Green Man pumpkin. There is still plenty more work to be done on the project, but completing the face is a major milestone. All in all, there are three layers of leaves on the face.
Three layers of leaves added.
As I wrote on the blog last time, I used two different colors of Celluclay. I had two partial bags of the paper mâché clay, and I planned to use them up on this project. Two of the layers of the leaves used up the gray clay and the last layer of leaves has almost used up the white clay.
I have started adding some acorns to the face in white clay as well. I still need to add some more, but I can only do a little at a time because I did not want to mess up the last leaves I added to the face.
At this point, the pumpkin is slightly over balanced. I had to prop it up with a pencil to keep it stable while I was working on it today. I have a plan to fix the balance problem. Once everything has been added to the pumpkin, I will fix it. If I try to work on the balance now, it might not be balanced when everything is on the pumpkin. At the end of the project you will not even see where the balance fix was made.
The next part of the project will be to add some vines and leaves around the sides and back of the project. That should not take but a few days. I don't plan to get too carried away with the vines.
There is another step after the vines and pumpkin leaves. I will blog more on that in a later post.
At this point in the project, the dull gray of the piece makes it easy to become discouraged. Looking at it day after day in this dismal color I start to think "This is never going to work." This is the time to tell myself I just have to have some faith in the process. I know that once this piece is painted it is going to look so much better. I also have to remind myself that this project is nowhere near being finished.
Check back next week for a post showing the vine and pumpkin leaves.
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