Mannequin, manakin, manikin, or mannikin ?

Well I now have one of the above......whatever the spelling......courtesy of Ebay. At the moment,  I perceive her as a sort of Lara Croft type individual, and I purchased her outfit from a charity shop.
She needs to be feisty, as my son is using her for target practice!

I have also started to slice up the teasels and experiment with ways of turning them into clothing. I've got hold of some coffee sacks (the cultivated teasels were sewn into sacks before been transported to the mills), so I was keen to try it as a possible backing material. But, I may just wire the teasels together.

Today, being a dry day with a good breeze blowing,  I've managed to dye a small amount of teasels using the remainder of the Indian ink. These teasels don't take up the stain as well as the wild teasels but I think the results are still interesting.

Last impression rather than lasting impressions?

I went to Somerset College on Friday to get more sketchbooks and found that the remains of my sculpture had finally been removed, and all that was left was the memory........

Photos in memoriam of 'Square Peg'

This could become a whole new 'body' of work following on from last years Horn of Plenty...