{"id":198,"date":"2019-10-14T20:44:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T20:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2020-12-19T18:15:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T18:15:20","slug":"the-wire-armature-deep-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"The Wire Armature Deep End"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Hmm &#8230; maybe we should&#8217;ve started you on sculpting earlier, Don.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>I can still hear my friend and former middle school art teacher, Brenda Gentile, saying those supportive words in a rich Southern accent. \u00a0At the time (many moons ago &#8230; around 1992 or 1993), I was obsessed with Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s new\u00a0<em>Dracula<\/em>\u00a0film. \u00a0Our art class had recently been allotted the luxury of a kiln, thus a foray into sculpting was attempted. \u00a0I chose to sculpt Dracula and his three brides, basing them off of the movie designs by Eiko Ishioka. \u00a0<br \/><br \/>Long lost at this juncture, those figurines allowed me to dip my toes into the art of sculpting. \u00a0Unfortunately, I missed out on revisiting sculpture during my college years. \u00a0Recently however, with Sparky and T.I.E.K.U.T, I&#8217;ve jumped into the wire armature deep end. \u00a0Maybe some future Sparky and T.I.E.K.U.T. figurines can be arranged?<br \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-179\" src=\"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/TIEKUTandSparkySculptures1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/TIEKUTandSparkySculptures1000.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/TIEKUTandSparkySculptures1000-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/TIEKUTandSparkySculptures1000-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/TIEKUTandSparkySculptures1000-800x600.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/TIEKUTandSparkySculptures1000-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/><br \/>\u2013 Don Gaddis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hmm &#8230; maybe we should&#8217;ve started you on sculpting earlier, Don.&#8221; I can still hear my friend and former middle school art teacher, Brenda Gentile, saying those supportive words in a rich Southern accent. \u00a0At the time (many moons ago &#8230; around 1992 or 1993),&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}