Visla

 I have been working on a commissioned piece...... A Visla.  These dogs have a very regal look about them with elegant lines to their bodies.  I first made a body, which you can see is fully paper mached.  Now I am taping on a head with newspapers and tape, with my faithful studio cat in the background supervising......or waiting for dinner.
  I try to get as close as I can with the tape ups, but never worry about being exact as it is pretty hard to do with the squishy crunched up newspaper.  After a layer of paper mache, the head will be solid and I can fine tune it by adding or subtracting as needed.

 I am going to try and be more diligent posting so you can see the step by step progress of this (and other) projects.