Sawdust Bear Makes Things

I picked up a pile of wooden plaques when I made my Monsters on Bikes pieces and now I’m making more hang-able art!

The Unfinished Autopsy of Rocky and Jeem, on Etsy right now.

“Blast! I have spent all day fiddling with these miniature organs, but they resemble nothing I have seen before! There is something that appears to be a small intestine, but I am fairly sure it is not used for digestion. Fortunately, I have many more of these specimens to observe – even if my dear Edna insists on naming them all. I hope she won’t be too disappointed when she finds these two missing. I believe she had named one Rocky, and the other Jeem.” – From the notes of Dr. Charles Ellis.

I’ve been into the creepy things lately.

Working on a series of woodland-ey wall plaques!

I love mushrooms. What sort of bugs live in woods, anyway?

Clearly, I’m trying to break into the cephalopod wedding topper industry.

Yes, they’re holding tentacles.

They’re part of this week’s Specimen 7 update that I will be updating…shortly.

The Monsters On Bikes show opening was fantastic! Thanks to all that came out. There was a flaming pinata. Totally my kind of people.

I’ve been slacking on the Specimen7 related updates, but I have been making them!

Specimen No. 11 is male, but has a pouch to carry his young. While this specimen is lugging his child around, we suspect that his mate is off on a beach somewhere drinking mai-tais.

You can buy him at my etsy shop.

Taking a break from clay and resins and other such things to make some clothing for my creepy murder doll.

I made this green sweater.

I got her just last week, and she’s lovely.

For more information about asian ball jointed dolls, here’s a wiki link.

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In order to force myself to sculpt faster and not spend so much time worrying about details, I’ve been trying to sculpt things start-to-finish(including oven baking time) in under an hour.

Today, I was three minutes into the “what should I sculpt?” process when my friend/ex-coworker Kunal posted his weekend art project on Twitter. It was just about the right amount of inspiration, so I quickly sculpted three monsters based off his original sketch(and the yellow one is based off the final art piece).

I finished exactly 57 minutes after the Twitter post, and while painting warm Sculpey is a bitch, I totally managed this under the one hour mark, with about 20 minutes of oven time.
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My boyfriend Jason is also playing in that Monsters D&D game I mentioned earlier, and is playing Blob LaBlob, a gelatinous cube.

A gelatinous cube seemed like a pretty straightforward casting project, so I picked up some clear resin and tried it out. I ended up destroying the mold, which was a bit too thin, so this is a one of a kind gelatinous cube! I’m probably going to try casting a few more, though!

(he liked it)

The mold was made of the slight flexible Smooth-On Oomoo, and the cube was cast with Castin’ Craft’s clear resin, which I think is a pain in the ass, but fairly forgiving. The base is just Sculpey.

A couple more pictures are under the cut.

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I decided to sculpt a couple of D&D monsters in adorable form. Here is a cute Shambling Mound. He’s scaled to about 10′x10′(so he’s about 2 inches in actual size).

I threw in a picture of Gus because everyone loves the cat.

More pictures under the cut!

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