Completed December 2, 2009. The goal was to get something up on its feet and more streamlined, which sorta worked—but it’s still a bit of a cigar with legs. I like the face, though. Meanwhile, I was fighting with the wool; I’d bought a few ounces of uncombed hanks at a gallery with a felting corner, and my hairbrush wasn’t doing much of a job of smoothing out the snarls.
He has a home in the permanent collection, but you can write to the Salamander if you’d like to discuss the creation of someone with a similar color scheme for yourself.
