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Soft Sculptures:

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A soft sculpture is one that has been made with materials that are supple and non-rigid, such as cloth or foam.

Stuffed Jackalope:

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I have a book of patterns to make small stuffed animals, two of which are deer and rabbits! So of course, I combined the two into my very own stuffed Jackalope, a.k.a. Jackalopsy! I named it Lopsy, as it is rather lop-sided. I completed the jackalope entirely on a sewing machine, and stuffed it with a polyester-fibre-stuffing. I'm very proud of it! I expected it too be fiddley and difficult, but I think it went well! It was very experimental but I really like the results.

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I'd like to use this as part of my project, I might say that it's a childhood toy of my narrator - maybe one made by their mother - and there could be a story attached about ow she was making my narrator a rabbit, but that they had seen one with antlers and demanded they be added to the toy.

Stuffed Kraken(s)

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This is the pattern I created to make the krakens, I tried too make it as simple to make as possible, using as few seams as I could manage so that it was less fiddly on the sewing machine. Fortunately there weren't any incidents during the sewing and my first pattern was successful.

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Both krakens are longer than my forearm and each tentacle is about the width of my thumb, they were great fun to make and I intend on using them both in my final piece. 

Ceramics:

Ceramic Glazed Jackalopes:

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I started with making the basic jackalope shape from balling up newspaper and attaching it together with masking tape. I then rolled out the clay to a consistent thickness to prevent it from exploding in the kiln. With the smaller jackalope I could take the newspaper out immediately through a hole in the bottom using pliers and scissors, with the bigger one I had to wait for it to dry some to prevent it from collapsing

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Once the sculptures were finished and the newspaper had been pulled out I had to let them dry out and fire them, this took around a week to complete. Here is a photo of one of the jackalopes drying and one of the both of them having been fired.

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Glazing was great fun! I had to mix up the glazed with help from Graham B and Mary from glass and ceramics, and ended up picking my colours based on photos Mary showed me, and went with a bright yellow and a blue that seemed to speckle once fired. To apply the glaze I poured it over the jackalopes, with the exception of the antlers, and then left them to dry. Once they were done I painted on the antlers using iron-water and then added the faces using a brown glaze. It was uncertain whether or not the faces would stay after being fired but I'm very glad that they did.

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Close-ups, pre second firing

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Ta-da! Freshly fired jackalopes! I found them on a set of shelves by the kilns in the glass centre and I'm very happy with how they turned out. I'll be displaying them in my final exhibition on plinths.

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My growing army of jackalopes:

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