Carved Modeling Compound (approx. .5" x .5" x .375"). I had fun playing with the modeling clay yesterday, so I decided to see what else I could do with it. I believe this is the smallest skull yet.
reminds me of those candy bits that make a skeleton if assembled right.
I would think if you had a polymer clay that shrunk a lot when you fired it that you could make a skill the size of a grain of rice--maybe even smaller.
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? (Hamlet, V.i)
"And since I am dead, I can take off my head To recite Shakespearean quotations"
In the tourist hell that is Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco there are booths that sell -- wait for it -- a grain of rice stenciled with your name. Why? Because they can, I guess. But surely a skull could be stenciled as well? I've never checked out their equipment, so I don't know how it's done...
Carved Modeling Compound (approx. .5" x .5" x .375"). I had fun playing with the modeling clay yesterday, so I decided to see what else I could do with it. I believe this is the smallest skull yet.
So tiny, so detailed. How small can you go?
ReplyDeleteSingle piece of rice skull?
ReplyDeletereminds me of those candy bits that make a skeleton if assembled right.
ReplyDeleteI would think if you had a polymer clay that shrunk a lot when you fired it that you could make a skill the size of a grain of rice--maybe even smaller.
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? (Hamlet, V.i)
ReplyDelete"And since I am dead, I can take off my head
To recite Shakespearean quotations"
-Jack
In the tourist hell that is Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco there are booths that sell -- wait for it -- a grain of rice stenciled with your name. Why? Because they can, I guess. But surely a skull could be stenciled as well? I've never checked out their equipment, so I don't know how it's done...
ReplyDeleteYou know I have actually been thinking about how I could do a grain of rice for a while! Hopefully I can figure it out before the year is over.
ReplyDeleteHmmm ... Maybe if you worked under a low-mag microscope? You'd probably need one for the photograph, anyway...
ReplyDeleteYes, of course, Yorick! To see a "reverse" of the "Alas, poor Yorick..." check out http://mim4art.blogspot.com
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