Next steps to presentation piece

Nothing like the onset of the day of reckoning to make you really work out how you are going to complete a piece! Lists of what you have got to do, lists of how to do it, lists of what you may need - but nothing like getting stuck in on stage one to find out that you should have done something else first or there could have been another way to do it!!!  

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Making internal copy of shell with paper pulp wanted to get the ridge pattern and did a thick layer pressing hard into shell.  It took three days to dry and in that time contempated that I should have layed thread layers in shell to integrate into the piece so when it was dry did another shell to see what looked best!  I also noted that the 'hinge' edge needed to be stronger so incorporated that into second trial piece.

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 The process of making another shell to see if what I thought I should have done first helped to focus me on the next stage.  I wanted to have a more diffused image on one of the shells, so hopefully next stage will come up with the goods!