HAPPY HALLLOOOOOWWWWWEENNNN!!!

I'm a makeup artist in the theatre department and this is my Christmas.

My friend Cory, a bartender at Macado's asked if I could do his makeup and I happily obliged! He's Noah from "The Notebook" as a zombie. Such a happy cute zombie if you ask me!

Cutlery Critique Afterthoughts

All in all, I like what I did. I know I rushed the knife piece but learning the forging techniques was interesting. I can tell right now that forging isn't necessarily for me. I don't like not being able to fully control where the metal goes when I'm beating on it. I also didn't completely like having Hammer Elbow for like a month.
In regards to the project though, I liked where I was going with the project and I think that if I had another month to work on it, it would've turned out even better. I probably would've tried a few things differently and went about my steps at a different angle.

Cutlery Critique!

Lessons Learned.

When shit falls apart, fix it.

If something breaks, don't cry- just do something about it.

BE FLEXIBLE.

Change your concept if something doesn't work.

The head of my spoon broke off.
The tines of my fork weren't spreading.
The stem of my fork got longer and longer.
The knife I worked on wasn't the same style.

While in the process of forging I've learned a lot. And I'm pretty happy with how my concept has morphed into something very cool.

SpoonersSpoonSpoonsSpooning

After annealing the head of the spoon and attaching the bowl to the stem, I etched and cut into the bowl, taking inspiration from a few of the research images I had pulled.

 Then I planished the bowl and continued shaping the stem.

Beginning the Forging process...

URINETOWNNNNNN!

Well the musical life is taking over everything. But I'm quite excited! Just wanted to include a life update!