Well holy crap! Since I've gotten back to work on this piece the followers on Instagram has almost doubled! Now go and make ye fishers of men! But seriously, the interest people have shown along with the complements they have posted has really geared me up to finish this piece. Plus, who would have thought that Instagram would be such a helpful resource. The Tyrannosaurus had been put aside so that I could finish a couple other projects: the Triceratops doorknocker for David's new home, some Steampunkey bugs, and a human heart pendant. While on the shelf, this dinosaur became very intimidating and it'd seriously still be sitting there today if it weren't for some friends and Instagrammars asking me about it. It just goes to show, what a profound effect just a little bit of free encouragement can do. The last time I blogged about this piece was back...
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(cont. from previous post) Because I molded the horns of the Triceratops as separate pieces, they had to be attached with glue. I didn't sweat it since I have a super crazy glue that promised "amazing" adhesion. The goofy thing was that when my son got ahold of the knocker, he snapped a horn off way TOO easily. Standing in the glue isle staring at the 30-40 different glues and epoxies that all guaranteed to have the strongest and most advanced formula, it occurred to me that I didn't even really know the difference between epoxy and glue... do you? With all said and done, I can safely say: If you're making something out of paper or cardboard, use glue. If you're trying to fix something that will never be touched or have to face the elements, go with the glue. But if you're trying to make/fix something that will...
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David. David who? David who just bought my first functional triceratops door knocker! Ain't that cool? Thanks David. He contacted me a couple weeks ago about the knocker. The Triceratops is his favorite dinosaur and he was excited to see my beginning attempt at a triceratops door knocker. I was scared to mold it myself though, I didn't want to risk destroying ANOTHER piece. Also, it's a knocker, getting banged around is it's primary function... it had to be done right or it would just fall apart. I looked into having it professionally molded and cast which turns out to be a pricey endeavor. In turn, for me to make a profit, I would have to sell a product at a price that I myself could not afford and that just doesn't jive. So, although mold making is scary and terribly messy (it's SO messy) the most cost effective thing...
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Where have you been?! I was worried. You didn't call, I didn't know where you were... phew. So, I've become an even fuller-time daddy than the full-time daddy I'd been about a month ago. It truly is a special sort of mind-suck and I couldn't see writing you blog after blog about the Funderdome! That really is a real place and a handy indoor playground on rainy days when the Master needs to expel some energy to nap so the Blaster can get some projects done while he sleeps. My recent art project is chess pieces...again. Since Solafar has been a "dot com" I've been making (among other things) chess pieces from the oven bake clay, Sculpey. I want to make a chess set so bad! The problem: I haven't finished designing or sculpting a full-set of chess pieces. Dragons, bugs, robots and now dinosaurs. I'd posted Instagram pictures of...
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...but you wouldn't have believed me. I've been in touch with an ol' friend from almost 10 years ago which, for me, seems like another life ago. He's a director who's in pre-production for his next film, Haunting of the Whaley House. It's a haunted house movie that's... well, here's a recent interview: I'm no expert on REAL life, but in MY life Jose's the buff of all horror film buffs. Ghoulish memories of Jose inspired this aborted... tumor... thing. For my own additional delight, I gave it a small degree of functionality by making it an Original Art Cover for a disposable Bic lighter. If you plan to attempt a similar feat of daring-do PLEASE do not put even a "dead" disposable lighter in the oven. The trick is to loosely wrapped a piece of aluminum foil around the disposable lighter. It'll need to slide off with the sculpture...
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