Archive for the Category ◊ Sculpting ◊
Small dragon skeleton fossil
Dug up in West Sweden, Texas by an amateur paleontologist, this small dragon skeleton is over 50% complete. By the size, it’s been determined that this is an immature Draco Pygmaei (Pygmaen Dragon).
Venus on the half shell.
Well, she’s completed! And looking as lovely as can be expected for a large, purple monster with a rather interesting concept of fashion.
Got a little more work done on her and did a major change to her face but she’s still not painted. I’ll be breaking out my commercial acrylics because I hesitate the use handmade egg temperas on a doll I’m going to sell without trying it out on a practice piece first. I’m thinking she’ll be dry enough tonight for me to paint her. That should give her enough time to dry before I add her hair. As a reminder of what her face looked after the last round of sculpting:
Original nose and mouth...kinda small and out of place.
This is probably one of the silliest pieces I’ve ever worked on. I’ll be the first to admit it. It’s actually been in the works for over a year (wow! has it really been that long since I first came up with the idea?). Our ADO team (Art Dolls Only, an Etsy team) recently decided to do a monthly challenge called Bathing Beauties and this partially finished doll had to come down off the shelf and be finished because she fits in perfectly with that theme. As you can see, though, she’s not quite done yet.
Here's the lovely and not quite finished bathing beauty.
I got a book for the holidays that I just love, so I thought I’d share a bit about it here. It’s filled to the brim with instructions, details and tips for carving incredibly realistic images in leather. But I think this book has value for more than just leatherworkers.
Figure Carving Finesse by Al Stohlman
So the doll was due in November of last year. Yeah, I’m late. Our Dolls and Miniatures team (DAM) decided to do a Spring Round Robin doll, which wasn’t a true round robin because we just partnered everyone up. We had two miniaturists and six doll artists participate and I got paired with a miniaturist.
PetitPlat's sketch for our RR doll
Worry by Amy Rawson
There’s no hard and fast definition to be found for an art doll. They can be made out of almost any medium or several different media. They come in various shapes, sizes, styles, and designs. They can be very realistic or abstract with barely anything recognizable on them. They can be human, humanoid, anthropomorphic, alien, fantasy, sci-fi, or just about anything in between. “What is an art doll?” is as loaded a question as “What is art?”
Scratch that. Reverse it. As usual, my blog gets ignored the most in all this. So where to start to catch up…. more…
