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Right now, rather no. Due to the fact that my own novel has gained more importance and that I am generally slower and in love with tinkering more than doing I am afraid that my commission time has really shrunken. And I have a huge queue now that reached the one year waiting.
shame on me :/
If you really really want one tell me though, but be warned, I have no idea when I can finish it:/when will science invent the 36 hour day?
yes, indeed 🙂 I made that one for her a looong time ago and its finally in the packing shipping process. You can find the image of it here:
thanks for all the replies 🙂
yes, indeed you can find new stuff in my room everywhere and stay for hours here 😉 my friends do that too everytime they visit. Funny thing is they first focus on my desk place, then they turn and freak at my big sculptures.
They dont really calm down when I let them shake hands with Lughmore (thats the big one). His arms are moveable, you could pose with him hugging you.
Most of my “inventary” as in works are gone though (sold/gifted/deleted) and the other half is outside in a vitrine(sometimes my Mum likes to show my stuff and when my rooms a mess this solves a lot).
and Basils room is awesome, can tell you that now already 🙂 bway, its your turn to visit mine 😉ahhh… Wolfen, do you want the short list or the long one?
the short one is: MANY
*g*your little kingdoms, junkyards, sleeping holes, broom chambers, footballfields… you get the idea 🙂
here’s hoping its not yet been posted but didnt find it in a quick search.
Since this was a thread on another forum (furbase) I decided to post it here too, I’m always curios how other rooms look, curiosity killed the cat 🙂 especially because in this case we are not talking of that average person with a bed and a cabinet, mostly atleast 🙂
So Akeyla made order in her room. Well, not really, I call it an inbetween the projects order, AKA, removing the debris from Hurrican FC (erm, Hurricane school turned up just yesterday, these images are a few days old). I live best in chaos though. Yes I know where my stuff is. I do not have a difference of work room/atelier/bedroom, everything is in it, especially as I still/again live at home.
dont look for windstones, as said, still working on it 🙂 though much closer now *smoches Basilisk*
enjoy (the boys dont bite)
http://cathuman.com/2007/IMG_8672.jpg
http://cathuman.com/2007/IMG_8673.jpg
http://cathuman.com/2007/IMG_8674.jpg
http://cathuman.com/2007/IMG_8676.jpg
http://cathuman.com/2007/IMG_8675.jpg*sits and waits for the other rooms*
oh fanatsy keeper…. thats something I’d vote for too, for personal reason 🙂
brain keeper? could need one
Heart keeper?
wish keeper
talisman keeper
keeper of happiness
hope keeper
magical keeper
soul keeper (okay, that sounds like harry potter)to be quite very honest, the keepers a bit bothering. I understand the need of keeping keeper, I would myself, but the old name went smoothly and most of the new ones have a nice first word and then comes the keeper like a .. wagon rolled over a badly kept road. No offense, just noted when reading the new names
my tiny experience, though I only made it one time, is to have a big mold (with lots of space in the fill in art) and only fill in part of the liquid(1/4), grab the mold and shake it, especially into the directions of difficult parts (like with a sitting wolf its the snout), then secure the mold and not slightly but violently shake it for one full minute. Works easyly by securing (you dont want jumping molds!) the whole thing on a small table and then knocking sidewise of it with your fist like you’r playing a… galleons drum.
I suggest you try with wall plaster first before you use the special plaster 😉
and as I said in another thread (didnt try it yet) vakuum would work too. Hope this helps 🙂Writing on a novel too myself, as some of you know, and I just have to say again, should my book ever get that far and someone make something similar out of it THAT WAY (no matter wheter Eragon the book is superb or non superb ) I think I’d go rampaging through the studios and poke my sculpting skalpell into the butts of those incapale … moviemakers. Okay, I’m gonna let the designer of Saphira escape.
The movie is a perfect sample of the “and he twisted round in his grave”. Which brings me back to my old point: What the heck was Paolini doing at the set? was he even there?I was to late as I already invested into a huge box of prismacolors. But I do own a few polychromos and know a few fantastic artists using them (bloodhoundomega).
IF you like to layer and have a thick and full effect then polychromos is by far the best I ever held. Better than Prismacolor. Polys are also pretty durable from what I heard. My Prismas shatter when I drop them, you know, that depressing sharpen and sharpen and sharpen… and the point always falls out.
However, if you do not fully work with colorpencils (I shade with aquarell first mostly) prismas but also Caran DAche are fully fine, and also Derwent (which I consider almost as good as Polys).
Especially as Polychromos are pretty expensive. For my taste I need a lot of color variations to cover my desire, meaning, I’d need the big box. The big box costs 130 euros or so on a very good day. Thats about 150-160$?
you could do what I do, I own the main colors as polychromos, and use the prismas for the rest 🙂
hope this helpsyou know you could animate the bottom right, GIF animation? that would be really cool 🙂 I like them all, but my favourit is tail tuft 😉
Ssthisto wrote:I’m starting to think about trying to make a sculpture or two that can be moulded and cast, and I’ve just got some questions about the way that Windstone moulds are made.
I’d been planning on doing sculpey originals, and either cast-resin or cast plaster/hydrostone finished pieces. I know that the plaster, due to its weight, does limit the shapes that one can make – thin and fragile things, for example, being a bit indicated against. This is sort of making me lean towards resin, on the basis that I could do the whippy tail that’s in my mind’s eye… but then, I really do prefer working with porous materials like clay and plaster, and the smell of resin makes me -really- ill. Can plaster be embedded with, say, a sturdy wire frame that would add strength to any whippy parts? My mental image does NOT require that the whippy bits be able to support any real weight other than their own – the piece’s weight will be supported in other ways.
Also, are the Windstone moulds generally one piece, two-piece or more? I’ve never noticed a seam line on any of the pieces I’ve got, but that could just be because someone is doing a darn good job of cleaning ’em up! If they’re one piece, what sort of mould material is used? I tried doing latex once, and that was about as successful as a chocolate teapot; since then I’ve discovered I have a pretty impressive latex allergy. Is there a flexible, reasonable alternative that’s not going to make the mouldmaker swell up like a balloon?
I’m also considering the possibility that the pieces I have in mind might have to be cast in several parts… particularly to avoid major undercuts if I do, say, wide spread wings. If this is the case, how does one go about sticking together cast plaster?
I am SUCH a nosy beast, and if I could afford the trip to California JUST to have a nosey around the factory, I would love to do so… but that’s an awfully long time on a plane!
okay, I am not experienced, but here’s some suggestions:I’ve made casts with inserted wire, its doable if you support the main wire with smaller wires in the mold to prevent it touch the mold side (wich would let the wire protrude).
I dont know about sticking plaster, we did that too but we’re talking clutzenstein works(very simple bulky form) here, I highly doubt it beeing recommendable for something as wings.
If you do have undercuts you could do something called the lost mold. Latex up the single pieces, cast in wax, stick wax dragon togheter, make plaster mold and melt out the wax. Add plaster and then knock out the form. Would work if you use normal plaster for the form and the special super hard plaster for the figure. with a so called “warm zone” (first layer of plaster on the wax is pink) to prevent you really chipping in full force.I have been thinking of doing something like that too. But after having fiddled with the simple Clutzensteins at school I decided i was much faster in polymer.
Other options could be using liquid polymer, but thats total newland to me :/hope this helps 🙂
I started casting some small figurines by using latex as a mold and plaster, I suggest you try small and simple forms first, it gave me a good idea of how the material behaves.thanks chess !
somewhere I am happy I am this slow. It means its the refined of the refined. I dont want to end like that french writer who would edit his own work in the already published book or newspaper.
oh, and if I get it done I’d give you one for free 🙂
just drop me your addy from your erm… old people’s home. Yeah, I think I’ll still need a while 😉unless he’d be a pile of sand I’ll gladly take the risk. YOu dont even want to know what sculptures I got back to me from the broken undeads 😉 this includes polymer works but also terra cotta works (back when I started sculpting and didnt have my own oven I had an 80% breakage rate when I brought my sculptures to school for burning. I fixed them all:)
I mean, its up to you to finally decide, but *kitty eyes*
My offer still stands, if we are talking of the draco same as in this thread(the shiffletbrothers model (the one holding his hand infront of his head)
) I’d gladdly offer my fingers for artwork on commission. Sculpting is tight from scedule until next june but I have a lot of A4 scetchbooks (http://cathuman.com//newart/scetchyumyum!.jpg ) where I’d gladdly fill one for you with scetches and lines 🙂
do you have a pic of monsieur le unloveeed in your reptile room?oh, I almost forgot, my most urgent resolution:
update ma friggin homepage!
its been 2 years stagnant with only an art update every half a year or so. The new design was supposed to look like this:
http://cathuman.com/2006/homepagetest.jpg
http://cathuman.com/2006/homepagesculptssample.jpg
http://cathuman.com/2006/homepageartssample.jpg
http://cathuman.com/2006/homepagesculptsartframe.jpg
until I lost laptop with the datas… *pouts*I need a 36 hour day… DEFINITLY.
thats ma christmas wish 🙂
