Faces, Part Deux

In theory - and I'll be quick to point out that this not - at ALL - how mine looked, this is what we did in the Stump class with the face canes. From the canes (see yesterday's entry) we sliced a piece off - probably about 2mm thick. We then formed a skull shape, off mandrel, from pink glass (the same color as used in the murrini face). The little sliced faces were warm in the kiln; we picked them up with hemostats and applied them to the "face" of the skull. After that, it was a matter of stretching the murrini face a bit to cover the skull's face, then sculpting in details. No, not easy. For me, anyway. Loren also demonstrated what he calls a "dot face," which is made completely differently. I'll have pictures of it later.