Un-Painted Peetrick Sculpture

For months my Peetrick sculpture was exiled to the "other room" after I dropped him on the floor--thus squashing one side of his face along with the hand gripping his hair. This jolt also dislodged the armature, which meant digging around in his Sculpey flesh, undoing stuff that was already finished. This made me not want to see Peet for a very long time...

Well, I got over it and have been building him back up. You can't tell so much that I dropped him, other than there's this annoying little wire you can see under his right palm,but you really have to look. I couldn't cut it out and couldn't hide it without messing with his balance. If I can get something very thin and sharp to fit in there, I could still get rid of it. There's a similar exposed wire in the back of his throat.

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He's been baked and sanded. Sanding is usually dangerous--that's when they like to break (and this one DID actually break.. his lip and toe had to be glued back on) so he's not perfectly smooth all around. I'm going ahead painting him regardless. Think I finally found a suitable green for his shirt. A 'tie' has already been prepared, cut from some sturdy looking ribbon I found at Michael's. The edges are treated with a line of wood-glue to keep it from unraveling.

I'm fairly happy with how he came out. He balances on two big feet, he didn't blacken in the oven.. he looks fine from most angles. The top-view and front-view are a little wonky. His ears also trouble me, again mostly from the top view. If I were doing the sculpture again I would know how to fix it, its just too late to bother with it now, even if I hadn't baked it yet.

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