Keys

These were designed to be actual prop keys, hidden on a few of them is my signature. I loved the way they came out, and hopefully soon I will actually fabricate these...


And for a little bit of sap, there is a part inside everyone called the carina, spelled this way I believe, it is part of the breast bone, and so these keys can unlock your heart and expose to everyone that small piece of me that everyone carries.

Cutsy huh.

Totally Amazing

Alright so while researching for one of my newest miniatures I found some amazing work that I just had to share.
These are Murals painted in childrens rooms and they are simply beautiful, so please take a look and hopefully you are as inspired as I am.


The fore is from wendyspaints.com and the latter is johnhiemstra.com beautiful and adorable.

And here are some of the other things that greatly inspired me...

Portfolio Review

So part of my glorious graduation is to show my work...so without ado, the compilation of three years of work, a la my style, a wall of my work that is uniquely me.



My buisness card holder, alike to one I saw at anthropologie, I loved collecting the pieces and then joining them together



My miniature library, not my favorite piece that I have created but it was the hit of the show, everyone who came up loved it, raving about it...I can only imagine how many pictures of this can be found on facebook the next day



Another show stopper, my enormous THESIS, yes this is my thesis, a miniature city built by ancients, inspired by art nouveau and the thought of Mount Olympus, final pictures of this coming soon






A Costume I created for my faery make-up, hard to display but the pants were too beautiful not to show






The guardian of the business cards, a flexible dragon that I had made stooped below all, a hidden secret for those who paid attention



...and apparently all the hard work paid off, my design won me the June 2010 BEST IN SHOW AWARD!!!!!!!

Whiteleaf

So for one class I had long ago...in a land far far away...
just kidding, in reality, I so far have not traveled or moved as of yet, but that comes soon, and this class I believe was only a year ago but my goodness how much of my life it sucked out. It was a two part class totally six months in which I dont believe I slept for most of it, I can remember vividly the last week of its due-ness in which I did not sleep, nothing went right and he was barely finished when I walked into the room to be graded.
Not my best or proudest moment as I was barely above crying due to lack of sleep and the stress of it all, but I am pleased with him, he did turn out cute...

So without further ado may I introduce, my creature, a wood spirit, Whiteleaf

These little sculptures are my maquettes that I had created to work out how his bark will look, work on his faces and poses, the bark texture and the intertwined knots and where to place them for the best appearance.



The sculpture, made from seven blocks of oil clay, Chevant, there was a form underneath, but all the spires were just additions of clay, that way they could be rearranged if there location looked off.




The molding process, ah that fun. I had to weave the clay around his spires for no undercuts, creating a completely organic and wiggly mold seams between the two pieces- but there were no bad gaps or undercuts.
I had been very patient and spent about six hours just building this wall and seaming it against the oil clay neatly and smoothly.



This picture amuses me, as I was pulling all the clay out after having the two halves, his eyes were staring at me from inside his head!



When you are so dedicated to a project you have to have a little bit of fun with it-



Its pack man.....eating my head!



The final skin, this paint job required about eight different shades of brown and tints of blue to darken it...the whole job took about seven hours, trying to age it and still make him appear young, since Whiteleaf is only around 14 in human years but 120 in tree...still a baby left to grow, as seen in all his tiny mouth wrinkles...he still has to grow into his bark.



This is the animatronic part, for some reason I do not have his eyes in place, they are run by one of the back servos by a pully system, since his eyes need to rotate 120 degrees, the pully gives me max movement, everything is based off a center point, as seen by the mouth picture so that was a lot of planning to fit everything in along that center line running through the interior of his fiberglass head.

Happy Day

Oh happy day, oh happy day!
So my hard work paid off, all the tears, struggles, tears, accidental blood spillage, more tears, hassels, late nights or days of no sleeping...and finally FINALLY I am graduating.
So raise a glass for me, dear friends, because hurray!

And without ado, in celebration I show my favorite works up to date,
All things combined, books, adorable-ness, and zoo animals.

These were hand drawn and then colored in the computer with a lovely amazing thing called the Cintiq wacom monitor.
I have great plans for these pictures, I am cleaning out a landing back home and creating a reading nook, my own space for myself where I can sit, have coffee, and become inspired...once I begin that project I will post pictures of before and after....oh how I cant wait

Airship

Soon, soon I will be able to spend so much time on a few projects, working from start to finish in one week, spending all my time on just one project...oh so excited...

But in the mean time here is another concept for a miniature that I will be soon creating, which when I begin I will post my progress as well.

The pirates, of the air, what do they travel in? How would their ships look? These just dent into that glorious imaginings...

Floating Island

So this post has been a long time in coming, I had meant to create this post months ago but kept getting hung up, so finally here it is!

Many ideas pop in and out of my head daily, ideas for cities, buildings, people, even furniture, and most of these ideas i attempt to create, often getting to only the design step before life sweeps me away to deal with other tasks, but now after 3 years I am graduating and to kick it off I am posting with days of ideas!

This first posting is off a miniature I am hoping to create of a floating island, of mountains floating off into the sky.

Enjoy