Historically Dressed Animals

These are more TAFE work. Part of my historical animals series.
They were done at a time when I was having problem saying me through my work, which is where the skeletons come in.

The Victorian puffin came first, before I had thought of skeletilising them. The Napoleonic Frog is something that was randomly generated and the Burgundian Rabbit was based off of our then SCA Lochac Queen's dress (Dad came up with the title of 'Hare Majesty' even though it's not a hare I don't think) which I did a drawing of which was just a sudden spark, that turned out when when drawn, not so good when painted sadly. But that Queen now has the piece, which she enjoyed immensely.

The Bite

This is a piece done at TAFE in my... second year, I think. Again it's working with the silhouette idea that I was obsessed with. It is only done with paper cut outs.

The idea is based on my complete and utter love for vampires (which do not SPARKLE, for any of you who believe they do :P) and the character of Christine, played by Judith Godreche, in the 1998 version of Man in the Iron Mask with Leonardo DiCaprio.

I wanted this to portray the moment of ecstasy and, I guess, the right term is terror that is rumoured to be the result of  when a vampire bites their intended 'victim'. It was tricky to work out, I ended up using several layers of tracing paper to work it out so they fit perfectly together...

If you are man at all...

This was also done for the fundraiser for TAFE. This one has what the previous has plus some paint, oh, and also both of them are done on MDF, which I forgot to mention on the previous post with the cat...

This one was started due to a lyric in the song 'Decode' by Paramore, a band that I was obsessed with at the time and still quite like to listen to at times, (mind you their 'Only Exception' song drives me up the wall with how dry and repetitive it is >.<)

'But you think that I can't see
What kind of man that you are
If you are man at all...'

So this is what came of it. More of my skeletal silhouette work. I thought putting the mask on the monster was appropriate seeing as in this he is trying to hide what he truly is from her, and yes his skeleton is based off of a human one with some extra bits obviously... Unless some of you hide those bits from everyone ;)
I made it so that she was backing away from him, being slightly unsure what exactly he was though she couldn't see the real 'form', so to speak.
Her face, though not drawn very well, if I do say so myself, was based off a character from a comic cover I found... The Crow/ Razor. I like her clothes though, wish I had them :} And the flower he is about to offer her after he gets her to step closer is a creation of mine based on something that I saw in on of my Mother's illumination/calligraphy books.

Stalking Air

This piece, I am really happy with. It was done originally for a fundraiser at TAFE. It was done using Black and white ink... Well, from looking at it that seems really obvious, but someone might have thought it was paint... :} Had to clear that up lol...

The idea was very instant. I was having fun with silhouettes at that point in time and skeletons seemed a logical step after that, so that's what I did. Originally, the smoke and the cat 'spirts' for a lack of a better word, weren't there, but the space seemed like it really needed something.

So yeah, that is how the piece came into being, but the after story and the buyer at the end is the funny bit :D It was between Mum and one other person and said she was gonna be damned if she was going to let it go to someone else, she had watched me work on it and loved it to bits... Made a good price and I get to look at it everyday which is nice :D

From the Book of Truth Grows the Tree of Knowledge.

This tree is based on one we have at home sitting onto of a cabinet full of trinkets that Mum and Dad have collected over the years.

It's just lots of loops of twisted wire to create the tree shape. It took a really long time to finish but I felt like I was constantly twisting wire.

I covered the book, drilled through it so that I could anchor the tree so it would stay up right, and put the (sprayed) gold bands on to keep it shut, those were bought at Mitre 10. The pins are there to keep the bands in place.

Miniature Teddy

Here is a piece I did in my first year at TAFE at RMIT.

Makes sense that it was in my sculpture class of all things. This project was a miniature project.

The bigger bear I did not make, but Dad bought me for Valentine's Day when I was... 6, I think.
The miniature next to, I made out of Crayola Air Drying stuff... Can't remember the exact name of it... Think we bought it at Spotlight.
I was happy how this piece came out, it was very fragile, but no breakages thank goodness.

Flame Monster... In a Lamp.

Well, here is the first piece to be uploaded (yay!).
This one, for any who know of this anime, is kind of based on Calcifer from 'Howl's Moving Castle' by Miyazaki, and the idea of fire spirits...

I must admit it was a pain to work on, it took forever with some parts...
I had to clean up the lamp that was found in my Aunt's shed before it was ripped down... THAT was one filthy lamp before I got to it... :D

I had some 'only hardens when you bake it' kind of plastersene that I hadn't used from a previous assignment in high school, seemed like the right thing with the colours being as they were. So I molded it around a wire structure and it worked. 
Personally, I think there are a few too many flames on it.

The moth was part of the original idea, due to Calcifer's eating habits in the film, and based on one of those little white moths you find every so often...

The tricky bit, after I baked it, was getting it into the darn lamp :/ He was very brittle, therefore he has broken a few of his flames off, and at one point the moths head came off too... Yikes! But thanks to super glue, he was repaired... Sadly that never stays the case, does it?