Today I decided to try to address the question, "How long did that take?" This comes up often enough, possibly from a sense that some kind of response is required, and while visual things seem to scare people, everyone has a grasp of time. I slide over the implications that accompany that question, like, "Wow, you have a lot of spare time."
This is my real work.
OK, all that aside, today I did a whole section on my lichen project and took photos at 10 minute intervals. To review, this is the project: the circle is nearly 4 feet across.
The space I am going to work on is a circle about 11 1/2 inches in diameter. I shift between my desk, where I do the cutting, and the table where the project is set up.
0 minutes:
My desk, tools at the ready.
10 minutes:
Cutting is started. I am making use of some of the remainder too.
20 minutes:
I have punched out some daisies in 2 shades -- cream and white -- and am now adding the details: holes in some petals and slit petals.
30 minutes:
The details take time. The pile on the left has been done. The pile on the right is what I am working on.
40 minutes:
Ready to start some gluing. Yay!
50 minutes:
Working the edges first. Well, mostly.
1 hour:
Used up most of my cut 'daisies' and have put on the taller fence-like bit.
1 hour 10 minutes:
Back to cutting.
1 hour 20 minutes:
Detailing.
1 hour 30 minutes:
Nearly finished detailing.
1 hour 40 minutes:
Gluing.
1 hour 50 minutes:
2 hours:
2 hours 10 minutes:
Back to the cutting board.
2 hours 20 minutes:
2 hours 30 minutes:
2 hours 40 minutes:
Finished.
2 hours and 40 minutes.
