My dog as a model

So I had this extra bit of clay hanging around and decided to make my dog in Sculpey type clay. Here's my dog. Here she is spying on me from the bed to see what I'm working on and why I am sitting on the floor while she is up on the ginormous bed all by her self. Here she is peeking around her toys and hiding from the camera. Here she is on her side of the bed, well when I'm not there. She manages to sneak over to my side when I'm not at home. I just realized she looks so sweet and nice, but she knows and likes very few people as she is overprotective of me and frightens people constantly. Doesn't help that she has the appearance of a pit bull when not in a good mood. Here is the model that I created in her image. I really need to get a photo of her standing like this for comparison.

Hell Raiser!

I have had a horse head shape sittin around waitin on me to just add clay and make something out of it. Well, I was having a tree cut down in my back yard yesterday and was jsut sitting around so I decided to take that time to sculpt. Sculpt I did. By the end of the day, my horrid looking semi-zombie horse was finally a live looking horse.

Here is the 'head' that has been sitting around forever, just waiting to be turned into something.

I can see!!!

ZOMBIE HORSE!!!!!!! Coming to a theatre near YOU!!!!

Zombie horses apparently go through the phases backwards and gain flesh.

HURR!!!!! I'm a horse!!!!!!

I have not decided what to do with a neck or mane. I just know I want arched and wild! Ears pinned, not outa meanness necessarily, but just for emotion in the piece. There are also a few tweaks I still wana make to the face as well.


Also, here's the updated photos of the guy from earlier this week.

I also added details to his face.

Fun Tip of The Week!: Take a horse that you actually are liking the results on and bash the heck out of it directly into your metal Ottlite lamp. Make sure it's a sharp edge too, for the most damage to the paintjob. Enjoy!


....FML!!!

Dapple-gänger!

Ah, the road to finding the perfect dappling technique that works with your own skill set. Well, that seems like a logical approach. Do you work better light to dark, dark to light, or tackling them at the same time? Of course, this method of figuring out also has a lot to do with your medium of choice. You can also manipulate your medium to work with your technique. I understand all this, but I'm in a weird league of my own. I understand the different ways and could probably do them quite well. I just get so ahead of myself. I'm OCD and not ADD. I can take my time, but want to hurry towards the end. I can't just put it down. Partly since I'm afraid that I will get busy with other things and forget, but also I really want to find out my formula to dapples. Unfortunately for me, I try to apply all the techniques at once. If one is not working, I abandon it for another and then another and then another. Without sticking to one and not being able to just put the horse down, I work with oils and this just has to be done sometimes, I usually end up distraught and down and out in a way.

Anyway, here is my next dappling technique that came out okay. Not great, but on such a tiny guy I like it for what it is and just need to make the other side match.

Here is what he looked like before dapples.

Yes, I only have dapples on one side so far. I am planning to work on the body a little more. He has horrible brush strokes from the acrylic base coat.

As you can see still no dapples on this side.

I really need to make sure that I have newer photos on my computer before blogging these things. I have his eyes painted in and his hooves are shiny black now.

Minkiewicz...do I need any other inspiration?

I had a Mink Medallion that I bought that had been base coated in oils. It was intended to be grey. I decided to finally work on it and finish it. I took some paint and shaded it in and in about 15 minutes had a nicely shaded horse. Here he is with paint just applied and no blending applied yet.

After the initial blending took place.

Since that was easy enough I decided to mess with it some more. Though about putting dapples on him, but liked him as is so much that I decided to just leave him be. Here he is while in the 'blind' stage.

After tweaking with him some I finally put an eye on him so he doesn't look like a dead floating fish.

And without flash.

Since these photos, I have gone back and messed with him a little more and redid the eye. Then I tried to use pencils on him and ended up going over it with more paint, which covered the pencil. I also redid the mane and added more dark points to the ends. So far I really like him.