Started "A Month in my Head"

 I finally cast my 31st head a couple of weeks ago - I think I was maybe subconsciously putting it off? Or maybe just lazy! To 'celebrate' I made an impromptu artworks with them:

Before piling them into a tray for my daily use:

I decided april would be "the month' that I would document mainly because of practical considerations - I need to produce a piece of 'art' every day, so I need to be at home (not away) all month.

So far I have made and shared three heads:

The process of 'having' to make a piece each day has been slightly stressful, but mostly fun - it's a good excuse to make art, which I love doing as it distracts me from some of the more difficult/tedious aspects of my 'real' life. I made the smart decision to share the photos on Insta a day late - doing so gives me a chance to reflect on them overnight and course-correct if needed. I guess I COULD change them later, but that seems very against the spirit of what I am trying to do - which is some ways is more a piece of performance art than 'sculpture' - even if the performance itself isn't seen directly. I've been trying hard to FEEL what the head should look like, not come up with direct symbolism - e.g. the first head felt right for the happy feeling I had, it's not attempting to symbolise happiness directly. The third head is much more literal - I felt 'business-like' and struggled to show this - the head went through a couple of iterations before I had to 'stick'.

Speaking of iterations, yesterday should have been an easy one - I was already anticipating the fact that  I would have to 'mask' for a kids easter party, and had already got an idea to show the head wearing an easter bunny mask - humour, but with a slight sting. To give myself credit, I did consider on the morning if that still felt 'right' and it did. Modelling the mask went well - I've got a lot of unmelted cheese casings, which are actually a great source of flat smooth pieces I can cut and build up. However, I felt like the mask wasn't distinct enough from the face - it wasn't clear enough that it was a mask, so I made the disastrous decision to paint it:

Oh my good - it's Donny-fucking-Darko... Ok... So I waited till after the party, to check I didn't feel Donny Darko, and I didn't, so I painted the entire thing white, then painted the mask with poster paints. POSTER PAINTS SUCK BALLS - do not use them. 

So I painted over the poster paint with gold:

On the plus side, it's more obviously a mask, and it looks silly and light-hearted, which isn't so bad... But firstly it's sort of TOO silly - it looks like a cheap easter decoration, and secondly the project was supposed to be about the colour and quality of the wax, and this will be the third head out of four that's painted... So I'm going to thank myself once more for giving myself a day between making and posting, and I think I'm going to make this one again, just in wax, with a simpler design...