Softening the Blow

This is the nearly finished art project. It's made from a wall mounted medicine cabinet. One of the two sliding doors remains. I removed a lot of the silvering from the mirror so it shows a vague image under the right light conditions. That doesn't seem to have shown up in these photographs, but oh well. This is the lady. It's a papier mache mask, finished off with layers of dark pink and apricot tissue paper, then finally covered with glittery white tissue paper. I was trying to get the mask color to compliment the hat. I'm pleased with the result.

Her "pearls" are flailing wildly.

I don't know about this exposure. She looks not-so-good.

Here you can see the cloisonne bird pin she wears on or about her left breast, sort of.
And she has a couple of bottles of eau de toilette there in her cabinet.
I'm wearing that plaid skirt that's not fit to wear in public. That's my left foot, one of my finer qualities.
On the other side of the cabinet are seven narrow drawers that pivot out on a central dowel. My right foot, the other finer quality, shows up in the mirror.

There are assorted trinkets and knick-knacks in each drawer. I think I will paint the inside of the drawers before next week. The project was due Thursday and I am all but finished with it. I still want to paint inside the drawers and attach a narrow skirt to the bottom of the cabinet. You can see the proto-skirt poorly attached in the previous photo.
This is how it looks with the drawers all closed. The skirt is more obvious in this shot, too. It has fat bun feet which I want to show, but the blocks that hold the feet need to be covered.
I did not photograph the back. It's covered in the fabric from which I made the skirt, and has a leg that hinges off the center near the top, giving it a tri-pod, easel effect. It's made to sit on a table, at about table height anyway. It could also hang on a wall, but that would make the feet seem superfluous. Eh, whatevs.

The final critique of this project will occur at the first class period after spring break, which started for me yesterday.

Yes, I am on spring break. I had an exam in Death and Dying on Thursday, and though I waited later than I should have, I studied to what I hope is good effect. I feel pretty good about the test. I had an exam in that bogus Fitness and Wellness class on Monday. Made a damned B on it. I was supposed to know that HDL is the good cholesterol, but I thought the LDL was the more favorable. That, and prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men. I guessed lung cancer. Lung cancer is the most deadly cancer for women and men, but the most common is prostate for men, breast for women. Now I know. It was a high B and I basically don't give a shit. I've got two other tests in that class, and I can pull the grade up to an A if I give it half an effort.

I would have had two exams on Thursday, but I DROPPED THAT MADE-UP-BULL-SHIT CLASS!!!! Can you tell I'm excited about that? Nevertheless, my week was very busy, which is why I haven't posted since Wednesday, and that was perfunctory.

There's more, but none of it relates to this topic so I'll save it for another post, hopefully to be seen in this location very soon. Stay tuned.