I’ve been sick since Friday night and haven’t been able to speak or do much else, but I’ve narrowed down my senior thesis idea to the skeleton figures project.  I looked through “The Book of Skulls” that Stephen lent me last class and did a few sketches to try and come up with some faces for the skeleton characters.  On Tuesday I’m going to buy a couple of different 3D materials to try them out and see what works best for what I want to do.  Ideally the product will end up durable and light after I finish shaping it, especially since I am planning on attaching the body parts with wire.  The head and torso are going to be made from the same moldable material (whichever ends up being best) and painted with acrylic.  The limbs I plan on making from wooden dowels and painting them white with acrylic.  I want to be able to make a hole in the top of the skulls for the skeletons to hang from wire.  Some of the materials I’m planning on experimenting with Tuesday are Sculpy and something a classmate suggested to me called “paper clay.”  I’ll see how it goes.