Another smiley-ball filler piece until I get a chance to finish my new books and photograph them.

Experimenting with photography again. This time I used the speaker stands/tripods to suspend a spotlight about 8 inches above the piece.  Husband and daughter held the other two spot lights, as non-diffused fill. On one hand, I think that the level of detail is acceptable, if not great, and the shadows aren’t distracting, but on the other hand, I don’t always have volunteers to hold hot and heavy spotlights.  Think I need a boom to hold the small aluminum heat-lamp, and I can use the speaker stands to hold the other spots.  I can use parchment or something to diffuse them.

This is my largest smiley ball, and it was coil-built rather than built as two pinch-pots joined at the lip.  It’s about fourteen inches in diameter.  It looks slightly different now, because I painted it with iron-paint after I took this photo. The iron paint is a suspension of iron particles in an acrylic paint base, and it should rust after being exposed to air.