Adventures in artland

Pearl Paint in Philly is closing down so J stopped by to do some scavenging. He picked up some really fun bright orange modeling clay. Tonight we had some sculpting fun and here are the results. Can't you just see the excitement in our eyes?
The piece of clay I worked with had an extension that looked a lot like a beak, which is what inspired the beaky-lizard head I made. Also, I recently hung out with my neice and nephew who are into dinosaurs. This may have contributed to the beaky-lizard idea.

A few weeks ago I had a really really bad day. One of those days where I felt really angry about the futility of it all (can you tell it was dissertation related?). In any case, J suggested I try to channel that into something else, since I could do no productive work that day. The picture on the right was the result. I think I was trying to express how I felt at the moment, like an egg dropped from high up.