Posts tagged sculpture
Seahorse and Maury Beakman, in location.
I went back to Seattle a few months ago. I got to see some old friends and, incidentally, I also got to see the sculptures I made them before I moved away.
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A 9-year-old boy who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto parts store is about to have the best day of his life.
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This is fantastic. My faith in humanity is restored. — Tanya
Okay…This made us teary. A lovely reminder that people can do a lot of good.
THERE’S SOMETHING IN MY EYE. Also, I loved at the end when he said, “Is this real life?”
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“Triumphant Goblin Warrior”
Tapier-mache Mask
$40
I sculpted this in Durham back when I made Scarilyn Monroe and Frank Stein, but I only just got around to painting it. I tried some different things with the paint job and I’m very pleased with the result.
Scarilyn Monroe and Frank Stein
These were the costumes Rebecca and I wore on Halloween. The masks are from a series of monster faces I’ve been working on since July. The dress and speed suit were purchased on a street corner in LA for $20 bucks.
“Turtle #1”
This is the first in a line of wall-hanging sculptures I’m working on. I started with a 2-dimensional cutout of a turtle and built it up to about an inch at the thickest point. All my sculptures are made out of masking tape and some combination of cardboard, junk mail, non-recyclable plastics and non-food garbage (like laundry lint) and then covered in acrylic paints.
A few years ago, I made myself a Raptor Bandito costume for Halloween. The gun, holster, bandolier, sombrero and hobby-raptor are all made out of tape and painted with acrylic paints. This was one of the first tapier-mache projects I did, so I hadn’t yet learned to consider the weight of things. That meant that all of it was unbearably heavy, especially the sombrero.
The Raptor Bandito character is from Dr. McNinja, a comic by the wonderful Chris Hastings. Por ejemplo, http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p20/.
Also, I wrote a song about this costume for the third EP in the Year-of-EPs: http://dannysaucedo.bandcamp.com/track/costume-change
