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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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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Having recently celebrated our son's 2nd birthday, I was reflecting on one of the effects the boy and I have had on each other. Over the past 2 years he's shown a growing fascination in dinosaurs via books, toys, shows and such. He can't write his name yet but he can point out and tell you what's a Troodon (tro-adon), Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stegosaurus, and a Pterodactyl AND he told me just today that he can speak Whale. Over the past 2 years my son has caused me to unearth my own fossilized interest in dinosaurs too. Come to think of it, as far back as I can remember (which is still a few years older than he is now) dinosaurs have always brought out an audible "wow" in me. Is it merely coincidence that my only "ink" is of a dragon behind my shoulder? Only if it's merely coincidence...
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In between itty-bitty-dino chess pieces, I've been working on a Triceratops door knocker. It's one of the "larger" pieces I've done recently, measuring in at a whopping 3 1/2 inches across! All in all this knocker is a sporty little A-cup, but a boob's a boob it's a Triceratops. In the previous post I discovered all this information about a Triceratops head and what little information exists regarding the rest of its body. I sculpted this piece specifically for the opportunity to focus on just the Triceratops head. Also, working at a scale that is almost 20 times larger than the chess pieces head, was more conducive to "dickering with the minutia" (which is kind of my bag). The horns were made to be detachable to make molding it easier. It was a simple matter of baking the head with wire wrapped toothpicks stuck in where the horns would go....
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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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