The Beaver

Hello Everyone,
I'm sorry it has been awhile since I last posted anything.

Our current art project is a wire sculpture.

I am enjoying it immensely, except I do believe I am allergic to the metal we are using....I'm going to have to check up on that....
Anyways, we all had to reach into a plastic bag, and, without looking, we had to retrieve a little plastic animal.  

......I got a beaver.....

Okay, I'll admit it: at first I was very disappointed with the animal I got.  BUT, I am really starting to like my little beaver now.  We have been through a lot together.
                   Our mission is to sculpt the animal 20 times larger then the little plastic creature.
I started out by making just a very basic wire outline of the body shape.  it was rather two dimensional at first, and then slowly I added to it, making it three dimensional.  Then I added legs, and ears and I am now on the process of weaving in the wire and basically just making it look like a beaver.
It's taken a lot of resculpting and reconfiguring.  A few times, I had to kinda take it apart, cause it just wasn't quite right.  But I think now I have the right body shape and I am on the home stretch!  

I think...

I will post some pictures of it when I am done!