Sawdust Bear Makes Things

My sculpting has definitely been veering towards the slimy aquatic lately. I’m okay with that, but if you miss things like…feet…wait a while and I’m sure I’ll be back to those in due time.

Here’s a one of a kind piece that’s coming with me to Designercon in Pasadena on November 5th.

Well, they’re all one of a kind. Still allergic to liquid resin, yep yep.

I’ve also been answering questions and posting progress work on tumblr(sawdustbear.tumblr.com) and there is a small album of more Designercon previews here on Flickr.

A couple more works in progress. Here is the first part of the Specimen 7 story.

I’m back from Geek Girl Con, which was fantastic. It was such an amazing and welcoming treat to be around all of these intelligent, gorgeous, nerdy women. It pretty much had the best vibe out of any convention I’d ever been to. Hopefully, I’ll have a bit more time to write more about it soon.

I won’t get around to unpacking and panicking about unpacking anytime soon, but here’s some pictures of a couple monsters I painted while at my table.

Sorry, they’re totally hipsterinstagrammed out.

And here’s a progress picture of them on my worktable.

Hey, I’m visiting my parents this weekend! More importantly, they live in the Bay Area, and APE is also this weekend! You can find me at my parents house, but unless you’re my parents, it’ll be a lot easier to find me at table #501 at APE.

I haven’t really been posting sculptures on Etsy lately because I’ve been hoarding them for conventions, but here’s a couple new things I sculpted yesterday.

This one is Jermaine.

This one is Fishpig. I’m really good with names, as you can tell.

They’re both bigger than my usual specimens, about 3″ long. There are a couple pictures of them from different angles in my flickr set.

Meanwhile, there’s also more Marlowe to catch up on since I last posted about him…so if you don’t follow it regularly, well – we’re in a pretty depressing loose story arc-ish thing right now.

I’m making all of the things!

But for now, here is an albino narwhal. I got these super rad albino raccoon eyes, and I’m so stoked about using them and want to use them ALL OF THE TIME now. Unfortunately, my hands and workspace have to be really clean to work with white Sculpey, and my workspace is really, really not clean(my hands are also often not very clean).

Anyway, there’s an albino narwhal. I’m hoping to get my Specimen 7 “book” done by September, so I’ve been spending most of my time on that…and my laundry list of ridiculous projects that are not sculpting related.

I’ve been roughing out some little sculpts that I’d like to get cast in small resin batches for DesignerCon this year…

Here’s a cute octopus. I figure he’s a good base for some super creepy sculpts I can base off it(i know, start cute, get really creepy…)!

I did sculpt today. And I did bring my monsters into the “studio” (really, it’s a light tent on a desk) and take a couple of “nice” “professional-ish” shots of them. But then I got carried away and started taking pictures with Instagram on my phone and got wrapped up in silly filters and placing my monsters everywhere in the house and…and…

Er, anyway, here are some pictures. I apologize heartily for the twee filters. (larger images if you click on them)

I imagine that these two monsters are middle aged tourists, on vacation.

This monster has actually been around for a while; you may have seen him before. He took up residence in my sugar bowl over a year ago. Jason likes him a lot.

This monster lives in my rice jar.

This monster is lonely. The spiders come and go.

I’m working, I’m working! Slowly…but I am.

Here’s a cellphone picture of a couple things I painted yesterday.

I made a 48 hr trip to DC this weekend to watch my friend Matt defend his thesis(he did!) and now I am jetlagged and gassy.

Holy crap, I made it to io9.com(as in with a Real Life Article on Marlowe). I’ve sort of been in shock all weekend about it.

I’m kind of regularly amazed at how awesome and funny my commenters and readers are. I love them(you) all so much.

I’ve been unwinding a bit after Wondercon so I haven’t really sculpted anything besides Marlowe related things. Here’s a couple before/after paint pictures, if you haven’t seen them, though. I’m constantly fielding questions on what I paint with so…I paint directly on coloured Sculpey with Formula P3 paints. They’re made by Privateer Press for painting Warmachine miniatures(and other roleplaying miniatures) and I discovered them accidentally(I was painting miniatures, and tested the paint on Sculpey and it has worked better than any other paint I’ve ever used). I usually use Premo Sculpey, but often mix in Sculpey3 and Fimo for colours I want.

So, I actually went to school for scenic design, and worked as a scenic designer for some time afterwards, and now that I’ve thrown so many model building “rules” out of the window, more people have seen my tiny janky Marlowe sets(with silly flashlight powered lighting) assembled in cardboard boxes than have ever seen any show I’ve ever designed or painted on a large stage. Heh.

Here’s the new Marlowe. It’s about eating.

On my list of dream projects is a cookbook with tons of pictures of monsters digging into (real)apple pies and tea sandwiches…that sort of thing. Maybe something on cooking tiny foods.