Category: sculpture
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Making cardboard kukeri inspired costume for Halloween!
Making homemade costumes with the kids and found inspiration to make a cardboard kukeri suit.
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Impromptu Sculpture Class
A winter advisory forces us into the studio to sculpt. Great work by O and D.
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SCARECROW HARVEST Festival
Alpharetta harvest festival, and images of AIA’s Scarecrow details.
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Bear Head Is On The Move
This weekend update: I packed up the minivan with tons of painting supplies, lots of cardboard, glue guns, and two kids and headed to Sis and Moons to start an large installation (still in progress). The kids Helped me unpack boxes of paint and odds and ends, in the process earned some choice pieces of cardboard, and […]
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Bear Head
Pushing hard towards halloween, flowing with Cardboard and Hot Glue, here is a picture of the Bear Head. You can check out earlier pics here. I’m happy with the head, I will be starting the suit next. Worried about the paint job, cardboard nude or custom paintjob? After halloween I will get back to the Clem […]
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Doodling the next few ideas for the ‘Clem Head’
More ‘Clem Head’ doodles this weekend. I’m using lots of pink, coral and magenta it just keeps happening. I went to 1shot‘s web site (below) they have all the colors I need. I was worried… “How I’m gonna mix that color”. I don’t know if i can go full plaid, maybe if I had this […]
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Doodling for the ‘Clem Head’
More doodles, more ideas, more fun There are four more pages with this stamp of clem’s head, I will start rocking out the real thing after this weekend… Stay tuned and have a great weekend. Yellow on green with purple and red detail. I’m going to find my old 3D glasses when i get home […]
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‘Can’t wait till I have a full dog sled team!’
Murph stopped by yesterday He added the red one to his collection, then set me this picture. He now owns three dog heads, more info about them here. Seven heads were cast in the first run, Five have been painted, one is in LA, one is in my living room and Murph has the rest. […]
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Big Cardboard Tree!
The cardboard tree, For the fall festival. The living room has been temporary turned into a workshop. Stacks of cardboard, boxes of hot glue and sharp things. The eight foot tree is going to Oscars school for there annual “Fall Fesival”. I was a great time, thank you for the great event. Below are some […]
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Still working on dogheads, this is Oscar with his spear and the dogheads on the studio floor
Just painting and planning, painting the last thee dog heads and planning the next iteration of sculptures/ paintings. Maybe giant dog head maybe giant kangaroo? Or tiny collectible dog dolls. Everything is on the table right now.
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Painting the Dog heads
Working on the dog heads, what to do? I will attempt to make all them super! I grabbed three of the seven heads to take to The Sis & Moon studio. These to are just getting started. I found lots of air holes, I will patch and paint. It was a good test and will need […]
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Working on new Dog Head, update.
I am very happy with the silicone mold so far, I have been able to make seven heads. Next up… painting. A closed mold is easier to spin around, learned that the hard/messy way. I wrapped a piece of cling wrap around a scrap of cardboard, silicone and cling wrap make a decent seal. Yes […]
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Working on new Dog Head, update.
With the outer shell done (plaster around pink silicone) I made the first casting. The gary head is the plastic casting (copy), the white one is the original sculpted (modeling clay) head, and the pink is the silicone negative. This is my first pour, I need to practice, a few thin spots and air bubbles. […]
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Working on new Dog Head, update.
Starting the mold (mould) from the sculpture. Finished the left eye and nose, then started the mould process. I was nervous at first, I always thought that the original sculpture would be trash if you didn’t make the mould just right (that’s for plaster moulds), but after the first layer was dry I was hooked. I […]
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Working on new Dog Head.
A new Plastalina dog head sculpture. I’m making a door knocker based on my smallest dog “Clementine”. She will love it, the door bell makes her crazy. A few more hours and then, I will need to mould it. Wish me luck.