Saturday, October 13, 2012

Creature Feature prep and more...

So the Hope For Wildlife Art Festival was a fun day, but, wow, craft fairs are indeed a lot of work (packing, unpacking, etc).  I counted up 24 hours of time between Brendan and I just to do the sale!  Thanks to all who came out!

Pics of the finished pieces are now on the site at Swoon, thanks to Swoon owner/director Brandt Eisner for taking all the pics.  I didn't even finish the papier mache before the Hope For Wildlife sale, so it is now they're all at Swoon. 

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Here it is, a papier mache Piping Plover.

Here are some works in progress that are about to get fired! A bunch of it is for Creature Feature, a Group Halloween Show opening at Swoon Sat. October 20th. I'm also repairing the outdoor halloween props to get out to the gallery tomorrow, along with a few new additions to the Swoon cemetery.

big bunny bowl; I'm using the opportunity of a very empty kiln to try out some large animal bowls

Big Crow Bowl



Big Dragon Bowl.. I'll be making a bunch of dragon stuff I think because I'm anxious to do a trade with Swoon's super awesome new folk artist, Jim Tracey, and he and his partner Alicia seem to dig dragons!

Halloween and Christmas Tree Snakes I thought I could make with my bead hanger thing, we'll see how they turn out!

Halloween/Christmas Alien Ornaments and monster figurines

Goat Bowl

Lion Bowl


Shot of all the Halloween Ornaments I'm making! skulls, pumpkins, crows, bats, black cats, ghosts... I want to put up some branches to hang them off.  The lighter coloured ones will show up well on a Christmas tree too! there are a few xmas ornaments mixed in here.

Santa Alien and Santa Santa.. Making Santa heads is so fun that for the one of a kind Christmas Ornament show/sale I'm gonna try some Canadian Celebrity Head Christmas Tree Ornaments.  Like Kevin O'Leary (been watching Dragon's Den re-runs on Netflixs).

This may not may sense yet, but is called "Baby, You're the Yin To My Yang - Angel/Demon Version" and will be a wall hanging Yin Yang symbol.



"Baby, You're the Yin To My Yang - Crow/Dove Version".