This is the second post today. What can I say - I'm a feast or famine type-o-gal. So about half an hour ago I left you hanging with the piano primed ina ghostly all white state. Finally the really fun part - adding color! That first brush stroke is always the hardest. Where to begin? Right smack dab in the center of course!

I eventually got rid of that green fingernail but it was fun for a hot second.

Then I needed some connectors - part wave, part vine, part tree branches/roots (you'll see as it evolves)

Some of these lines became hair too - multi-purpose - I like it. It's all in how you look at it.

I was thinking of the arms as waves. There were a lot of nature elements to this - a real feeling of the timelessness and cycles of growing things and the ebb and tide of water - endless ocean. I was listening to a lot of Florence and the Machine.

So the back alone took about a week but it was totally worth it :)

Now the next challenge - pulling everything around the sides. I started here:

I knew it needed more work but wasn't sure what came next so I started on the fornt to give my subconscious sometime to work it out and/or to see if I just needed another part to be done for it to fall into place.

Remember how I mentioned tree feelings? This is what started happening on the front:

I added some color to the top too at this point. Starting to feel the time crunch so was trying to work multiple bits at once.

This post is getting epically long. Then again it was a pretty epic process so I guess that fits. I'm going to leave you with a pic of the mostly finished top and expanded front:

Next post - the final side and finished product pics!

Hello All! So about two months ago I started telling you about my Piano adventure with Sing for Hope. I then got so busy making the piano I had no time to write about it! However, I did document the piano's evolution in pictures. As we lead up to the public unveiling of all 88 pianos I thought I'd bring you all up to speed by going back in time and tracking the piano's evolution. So, where did I leave off...oh yes - the back of the piano. As of my last post, all that was on was the central face and my heart/hands and I was about to have a plastering party!

Easter Sunday I had a plastering party (the invites might have read something like come and get plastered while you get plastered). Many thanks to all who came out and let me cover them in vaseline and plaster gauze :) Here's a pic - sorry I don't have more. If any of you who were there want to send me the ones I know you have on your phones - please do so!

After my plastering party it was back to the piano studio! Here is how the rest of the piano evolved over the next week.

First there was one arm (Al's arm to be precise):

Then there were 2 (that's either Tina or Virginia - tragically I have forgotten - swiss cheese for brains sometimes):

Then came third (that one is Sonia):

Here's another angle because it looks cool:

Then I added a 4th arm and a bunch of faces - Obviously I neglected to document in the middle - probably due to plaster covered hands and my nightly race against the clock:

Just FYI we are up to Wednesday, April 3rd. I said I'd get you to the end of the week right? Right. So I did this Thursday night:

And then I needed more body parts so I took Friday night off. Stay tuned for what happened the following week!