and i do it out of spite

since i've been taking this pottery class, the stranger has (jokingly) said that anyone can make a bowl but if i were a real artist (which i'm not, but for the sake of the story...) that i would sculpt a giraffe. and i've heard this every week. and i ignored it every week. until today.

i was at rachael's and she was working on a project with modeling clay and told me to do whatever i wanted. so for shits i started putting together a giraffe head.

and she said it really did look like a giraffe head. so i figured, eh, i've come this far, might as well see it all the way through. and it came out like this:


now. at first i tried to make it stand up. i think you'd have to put rods in its legs to get that to happen. i do not have any material around here to use as adequate rods (it has a bobby pin holding it's neck up on the inside) long enough for legs. so i tried to make it look like it was sitting down in a chilling out position. well when i baked it in the oven (first time my oven has been turned on in...well...awhile) its legs got a little wonky. but it has a real tail, its head at least looks ok, and i took the time to paint the damn spots. i think i pretty much win this one.