Category: Art

Crow Sculpture

I made this sculpture, like the falcon one, so that it would sit on a wall.  I meant them originally to both be crows, but one started looking like a falcon so I went with it.  I don’t like how chubby this looks.  Crows do not perch on their bellies like this, I’m pretty sure, …

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Frowny Ball

Try Book

This is one of the books whose cover creation I chronicled in an earlier post.  I started with scraps of cloth glued down on paper (a sheet from a manuscript) and layered washes of color over it in acrylic.  For the final details, I used a mixture of blue acrylic paint and gel retarder and …

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Smiley Ball 10

Red Wolf Book

Most of the making of this book I chronicled in an earlier post. I finished it with the weed-stamp on the back, using acrylic paint mixed with gel retarder (plain acrylic paint doesn’t work here, as it is too dry.)  The face on the front is a linoblock I cut of myself using a photograph …

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