Goffin Sculpture

http://virginiegoffinsculpture.daportfolio.com/

I really like the work of Virginie Goffin, her work is simple and unique, and inspiring too. I always find it irritating that polymer clay artists and sculptors tend to stick to the same thing. Polymer clay is a very versatile medium, but it's often used either for simple fairy dolls, or for sculpting maquettes. Once you've seen one fairy, you've seen them all, so it's cool to find artists exploring the different uses of this new medium.

Virginie's characters are theatrical, with an animated feel, but also look strangely alive. They are detailed, but not overly so, and always have wonderful expressions on their faces!

Craft fair

I've been building up to a craft fair for ages, and held one this weekend at a local college. It was quite hard work getting it all set up, but it was an interesting experiment. I think we didn't really have the right crowd; kids and artistic people loved my stall but your normal boring browser didn't know what to make of dragons, goblins and crows! I think I need to find a better way to sell my stuff to the right people. Anyway, I was quite pleased for my first ever effort. Anyone who doesn't know, I have quite a few health problems so it was a big achievement to do this! Here are some pics:

Not the best setting for my stall of curiosities; in front of a computer room! It's me on the far right btw!

My favourite things on my stall, little pond fairires:

Here's some other things I had for sale. They're still avaliable, so if anyone wants to buy anything, just let me know;) !:

I've a few more piccies to add so check back...... Let me know what u guys think :)

Daemon art doll

I've had a break from the internet to concentrate on other things, but I'm back now and have updated my website. Here's a couple of pictures of an art doll character I made a while back. He's got horns made from sea shells, a real gourd across his back, and reminds me of a travelling monk....but a daemon too!

Tommy and his Little Gas Mask

HIIIIIIII!! I'm back after a new year break, and this is my first main project of the year....

I've been commisioned to make a doll of this character, for a writer. He's called Tommy and, well, he's got a little gas mask. Check out this awesomely bizarre video on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQpxJFnPaQY

There is also, randomly, a band making really dark and brooding music over at:

http://www.myspace.com/thegasmaskkids1000

 I think I'll make the doll free-standing and fairly simple. He'll have flexible arms and I might try to make a real leather gas mask.... yeah good luck with that junk!

This is a great little project and I'll post my doll on here a s soon as it's finished. If anyone lese has any projects for me, let me know!

Work In progress

Here's a couple of projects I'm working on at the moment. First is a cool big art doll of cernunnos. I like to bae a lot of my art around folklore and mythology, and cernunnos is a Pagan Celtic god. He's the horned god of the underworld but, in modern interpretations of Celtic culture, he's the guardian of the forests, the defender of the animal tuatha (tribes), the source of the deep forest wisdom, and the masculine half of creative energy.

At this stage I have built an armature from a load of old wire, and began to build up the head. by keeping the armature thin at the joints, he can be positioned and posed. I'm now waiting for some hair and eyes in the post, before I continue!

Another project I'm making in another junk-based puppet. He's a character with a steampunk/gothic feel, called 'The Chameberlain'. He's got a light up eye with a removable monacle, and a head that flies off to scare everyone! I'm thinking of putting little wings of the sides of his head too! He's nearly finished, so i'll post pictures when he's done, but here's a current work-in-progess picture:

Okay so he doesn't look too impressive in this shot! But I really like this guy.

Little owl goblin

Here's a quick little magical creature. He's some kind of owl/imp/goblin creature, and he's now part of my christmas decorations too!

My decorations definately look better in real life than here; kind of got a magical forest vibe going on!

This little owl guy's  got yellow glass eyes and real feathers!

A Christmas Pixie

This little christmas pixie is part of my christmas decorations. He has a little red hat with a bell on, a scruffy jumper and white leather braces, with a pair of tripey tights! He's also got some very curly white hair!

I made this little guy from an old seed pod, which was from some used pot pourri. His eyes are haematite. I was going to give him a little fishing rod, with a snowflake hanging from the end like he was creating snow. But in the end i settled for a festive bit of holly.

He hasn't got a name yet so any suggestion are welcome!

Unseen art dolls and sculpts

Okay, just a quick update with a few pictures. These are art dolls that I havn't added to my site for various reasons, usually cos I didn't have enough good pictures. These dolls are such unusual shapes they're really hard to photograph, especially with a terrible camera like mine!

Hopefully i'll add them to my site eventually.

Scott Radke is a genius

I got to admit I don't know too much about this guy, but just check out his website gallery: Amazing! He creates the most beautiful and disturbing sculptures. They have a really surreal and disturbing quality, and I'll be posting much more of his work on here soon.

Check out his gallery!

Nemos sculpture blog

This is a quick mention for Nemo, who's made some awewsome custom toys from rollies. I', halfway through making one myself, an evil luchador. Check out the Daywalker :



I'm sure there's loads more awesomeness to come from this blog...
Nemos Sculpture Studio

Junkpunk ooak surreal art

Okay, I'm gonna kick things off with my own site. I make all sorts of weird and wonderful items, using as much recycled and found items as possible. I am an artist and inventor, focusing on sculpture and a variety of different types of clay. I have plenty to add to my site, which at the moment only has a small proportion of the things I make.



At the moment I am focusing on developing a number of puppets and marionettes, with dark and disturbing themes! I hope to add them here real soon!

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