Ok, so this wedding sculpture thing was going a little too smoothly. I expected at least one minor mishap during the process. Last night, I was baking both sculptures together, and while waiting for them to finish, I heard a metalic thump coming from the oven. I immediately knew what had happened. I opened the oven to find both my and Cary’s tiny little dopplegangers lying face down on the cookie sheet, with a couple of broken feet and two severed hands.
On the upside, the clay had baked just long enough to harden, so the fall broke the pieces off cleanly instead of deforming the clay. I’ve glued the feet back on, and will do the hands tonight. After that, the sculpting will be finished except for adding the eyes and filling in any rough spots. I’ll have pictures of the final unpainted pieces up soon.