April WIP brings May.... Robots?
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I haven't been on the forum for awhile and just discovered this thread. Your photo of Lisa made me laugh out loud. What great work! I can't wait to see what comes next.
Laurie DeMott
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@demotlj aw thank you!! 🥰🥰🥰
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A few of the things I've rummaged from the machine shop. Excited to get going with it!
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Moving along moving along!!! Painted her little face. I'll finish her eyes when I have the whole scene set. That way I can really make sure she is looking at what I want her to be looking at.
This is her "finished look" right before I go in and.... destroy her
So to make the illustration work, I know that I have to essentially mess my puppet up. With charcoal, and scissors. I will be attacking my adorable little puppet.
The after photos to follow very soon!
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Here she is!!! And I loooovvveeeeee her!!! It was painful at first but once I saw her turning into the little unsuccessful inventor I was excited to "mess her up."
Super excited to finish this! I'm hoping the rest of this goes by a little faster and I finish in time
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@gavpartridge thank you thank you!
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@EliaMurrayArt wow, this is amazing! I can’t wait to see the robot!
Nicola Schofield
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So crazy awesome. Her face. I can't get over how awesome. I know I've been excited about this thread but it's exceeded even my excited expectations! I love your little Lisa!
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@neschof oof me too. I'm so nervous about the robot
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@Coley thank you!! I am so happy with how she has turned out
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@EliaMurrayArt holy moly this is incredible. Never heard of needle felting (or pretty much any of the other techniques you’re using), but getting to see your process - it looks so fun! Especially love that shot of you dumpster diving for your girl and her robot
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@johnchoi thank you! Needle felting is great! I highly recommend it as a pastime if you enjoy sculptural work at all. It's fun, repetitive (almost meditative) but keeps you on your toes because you can stab yourself pretty easily Haha
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Robots update. I found this tiny switch, and some tiny light bulbs. Some colorful electrical wire.
What I'm debating heavily right now is how/what to paint... photographing metal can be difficult... plus since the head is not metal it might be hard to get the head/body to look like they belong to the same robot. But I think I can work it all out.
Definitely a mess, but I suppose that is ok for an exploded robot.
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Do you have any shiny metallic paint? I think Barbara Reid, Plasticine artist extraordinaire, paints some of her metallic items with metallic paint
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@EliaMurrayArt adding it to my massive “things to try someday” list
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@Coley I will look into those!
I am thinking that I will paint both pieces and then sand away some of the paint to reveal some metal below... that way too, I can control the color scheme of the whole piece!
I am currently gluing tinfoil to the head in places where I will sand the paint away a little. Hoping that will create the illusion that the whole thing is metal.
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@EliaMurrayArt This is fantastic! Thank you for sharing your process!
Bailey Vidler
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@baileymvidler my pleasure!
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Woo today has been really tough...
I was feeling all confident about the puppet and the robot... and then I really settled in to building the room and it alllll came crashing down...First I tried building the walls with cardboard, as show in the first picture, but they warped and wilted when I tried to paint them and they just looked bad. Then I realized that Lisa's table was TINY when alone in the room
it just looked terrible.. so I decided I needed to build her cabinets... I thought perhaps cardboard with spackle over it to give it texture. Bad move. Bleh not good. Tossed that version. (All in the first picture)Then I remembered I had some plywood left over from an old project. So with some help from Zac (the ever patient husband) we constructed some plywood walls and I carefully built some new cardboard cabinets with no spackle (though I am still most likely going to paint them.) (Second picture plus some blue prints Lisa made)
Woo. Still got a long long way to go but I'm learning a whole lot!!
Oh! Zac also helped me build Lisa a mini blow torch
it is constructed with some little copper tubes, and an old computer wire.
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Sitting here smiling while reading this
so much fun. You have a fabulous husband!
