When I saw these gourds, I almost immediately saw a giraffe! So I got to work putting them together with a few cuts and holes drilled! I cut a butternut board for the base and attached the body to it!Next came some apoxie sculpt to join things together and painting some eyes on glass beads.
Once all the sculpting was done, I started painting with acrylics and attached horse hair eyelashes, ossicones, and mane and tail hairs! I used tail hair from my sweet Patty horse that I lost a couple of years ago!
After all that, I added some clay grass and flowers and stones to the base. Then varnished everything for the last touch! I am really happy with how it turned out and named it " Of Earth and Sky".There are some surprise spots on the giraffe that go with the title! I am thinking I will enter it into a couple art shows near here and if it doesn't sell there it will be offered online!
