barnacles and pebbles

February 3rd, 2010 § 0

I’ve been playing with organic shapes lately. I’ll be moving on to weird things in petri dishes once I figure out the best thing for fake agar. Meanwhile, there’s gonna be weird things in test tubes…once I get stoppers. No, I’m not sure why I can’t just order all my supplies at the same time. Also, I bought a whole bunch of 3×3x2 boxes instead of 3×3x3 boxes in my last supply order, which is annoying. Fortunately, it seems like the majority of my specimens actually fit just fine in the smaller boxes. But you don’t want to hear about my shipping woes.

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penny farthing+love

February 1st, 2010 § 0

I drove a linoblock carving tool into two rather essential fingers, and all I got was this stupid print.

I like linoblock prints. It’s like grown up stamping.

teehee. butthole.

January 26th, 2010 § 0

I dunno. I’m really into specimens with buttholes right now.

erika and tentacle pots

January 25th, 2010 § 0

This one is fanart for the awesome Erika Moen, who has been sculpting adorable tentacle pots.

erika and tentacle pots

You probably know Erika from her fantastic auto bio webcomic DAR that I’ve been reading and loving from the very beginning, but her foray into sculpting has been just as enjoyable to watch. Her tentacle pots sell out like crazy, but you might be able to catch some on her Etsy site.

i love my cat

January 22nd, 2010 § 0

I think I’m having a bit of an emotionally fragile day because I broke down crying reading Neil Gaiman’s blogs about his cat, Zoe. But I’m actually not having a particularly emotionally fragile day and I just really, really love my own cat so very much, who sounds an awful lot like Zoe. Gus also has that tendency to follow you around the house and crawl into your lap. Recently, he’s been sleeping between Jason and I in bed, and sometimes when Jason rolls over on him he just makes a tiny mew, and scoots out of the way, closer to me. He is very loud. He talks a lot, and has a whole range of meows. My favourite is the one that goes “mrrrrrp!”

Gus is nowhere near dying,of course, despite having come pretty close to it before he was Our Cat. He’s somewhere between 6-8 years old and only has one and a half lung operational, and is allergic to cats and gets asthma attacks when he plays a bit too much – but he should still have many years with us.

Anyway, I love my cat, and I just wanted to talk about him.

That’s him, sleeping on my lap at night when we watch TV. It’s a pretty common setup.

amanda/neil wedding toppers

January 19th, 2010 § 1

There’s a PostWarTrade webcast art challenge going on right now to create punk rock cabaret wedding toppers. Now, punk rock cabaret is totally my thing, but not really what I tend to sculpt. But I made some folky, creepy wedding toppers of Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman(they’re getting married! yay!) for it yesterday night!

They’re Other-Amanda and Other-Neil, complete with black button eyes. I actually burnt some of the clay and had to paint them white again, but it gives it a folk-arty look which is totally okay.

Also, if there is any sculptor out there who has successfully sculpted Neil Gaiman’s hair, please contact me. I’d really like to talk.

More pictures under the cut!

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jointed heads!

January 15th, 2010 § 0

Who figured out little jointed heads? I did! Yeah, it’s not that hard, but I got it right on the first try, and I’ve made three more that just don’t fit together right. I usually get things right on the first try. I just wish I could replicate that success more regularly.

dorbal

He’s a Dorbal. It’s a really cute species of fictional animal.

I sculpted a simpler featureless head for this guy too – if it works well after I bake it, I may cast this in resin as a tiny DIY resin toy. My last intended resin cast was just not as awesome as I had hoped after I looked at it for two weeks, so I junked it. BAH.

postcards

January 14th, 2010 § 1

I love my new postcards!


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tentacle

January 11th, 2010 § 0

*poke* *poke* Don’t worry, this is just a test tickle.

I’m working on a series of tentacle plaques! They’re fun. And tentacley.

This one is for sale here at my etsy store.

rust monster loves you

January 7th, 2010 § 0

I took a small break from Specimen 7 to deal with holiday fairs and corresponding excitement, but it’ll be back next week with an awesome update schedule that I will actually stick to! Yay, updates!

In the meantime, here’s another piece from my Adorable Monster project(cute D&D figures!), which was a Christmas gift for my friend Sean. It’s a Rust Monster. The figure itself is about 1″ tall(it fits on a 1″ miniature base), and I know there’s just not that much detail in it, but damn, detail is haaaaaaard when something is so tiny.

I think he’s pretty cute, though.

More pictures under “more”!

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