April WIP brings May.... Robots?
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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
before photographing them. At least that’s what I think! -
@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!
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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
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@EliaMurrayArt Wow, this is has been amazing to watch, and I love the room and cabinets!
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@Coley
what is not pictured is his immense anxiety as I paint in our living over the carpet.He has since "suggested" I move to the kitchen
where the floors will be safer.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eliamurrayart/
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This is amazing I love watching everything unfold
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@EliaMurrayArt ba hahaha that’s hilarious
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I don't know how many times I can say "Holy Moley" but about 400 times might get close to my amazement at what you are doing.
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I thought I should give you guys a look at the scale that I am working in... also the mess that I am creating Haha
It's easy to take photos that look relatively "tidy"... but you can see that I am anything but. I dream of the day when I can have a studio, outside of the home, in which I can set up a workshop of my own.
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@EliaMurrayArt This is so freaking amazing. I am really excited to see who this turns out. I wish you had been documenting your process by making a video. I would have totally binge watched it.
