I know, I know.... here I was all determined to be better about updating my blog more often... and I haven't touched this thing in a few weeks.
Which would imply that I've been having lots of exciting and interesting things going on! And I simply didn't have time to update this!
*le sigh* I wish.... Its actually been pretty quiet here on my end.
I've been spending a lot of time over at my other job. With the flu season still in full swing, there've been a lot of people calling out sick, or calling out/going home early to take care of sick kids. So I've been picking up a lot of extra shifts.
On the art work front... working on my Aunts dragon. This thing is going to be REALLY impressive once its done. I'm considering whether or not I want to set some stained glass in the gaps along its spine plates. I have no idea how to work with glass, so whatever I do will be very simple. Hmmm...
I wish I had some pictures to post here today. But I keep forgetting to take my camera to my shop... hopefully this next week I shall remember to do that!
Lets see... what else have I got going on? As I said, it hasn't been a terribly exciting few weeks. I've applied for a few art shows, as well as a farmers market, so I'm waiting to hear back on those. I applied for the Rocky Mountain Gun Show in June, and seem to have been accepted into that! So that's pretty exciting for me! This will be a new avenue of sales for me, so I'm really hoping I do well with all my fish and bears and outdoorsy things.
Oh! I did finish up another large commission!
Behold! The terrible Scrapvulture!
This was a request given to me by the same lady who'd ordered the Scraptrich last year. This time she wanted a large vulture, roughly 3-4ft tall, with closed wings.
Since this request came in around the beginning of November, and holidays were kinda crazy for me, I wasn't able to get to it till January.
The vulture is intended to sit atop a large boulder, with a rock set on the base to keep it in place. So I set the vulture's feet right at the edge, to leave as much of the base plate free as possible for a large rock. This is also why it has such lovely long legs!
I wish I had some pictures of this while I was building it... because it was pretty amusing. Without wings, this fella looks like a tall, long-legged penguin! It was not attractive... hence why I flared the wings a bit. Birds look much more impressive if you can open their wings up, and I wanted this bird to be impressive.
The eyes were a lucky break. The lady had asked for black eyes. And from my previous adventures in finding the green eyes for the Scraptrich, I already knew that large, black marbles just weren't going to happen. But... during a Christmas shopping venture into a small local toy store, I found a rack of colorful marbles.
They had some really pretty marbles. I am really tempted to go back and buy a bunch.
And as fate would have it... they happened to have a couple bags of jumbo-sized marbles. And those bags happened to have these dark, navy blue marbles with gold and light blue swirls. Not exactly black... but it was close enough. And in fact, I found out later that the customer REALLY loved those eyes. They loved the swirls and how you can spin the marbles in their sockets to get different facial expressions. Good thing I decided not to glue them in place....
Back view of this lovely bird. The tail is also set high up on the body and angled back, with the intent of leaving as much room under the bird as possible for a rock or brick. If need be, the feathers can be bent up a little more to make more room.
I've really been enjoying making these large scrap sculptures. I'd definitely like to continue doing more this year, even if they're not by commission.
