Oh, and just for fun - I did a silly crossover fanart with Loki and Reaver (from Fable 3). They seem to fit right together what, with the dark hair, the brooding, the self-entitlement issues and the HUGE EGO.

A recent commission for someone - Loki from the movie Thor. I had a lot of fun creating him; it was a challenge to take a movie character and turn him into a plush form. Anyone who is interested in a commission go look at the Etsy page or email me. I've decided to do either Doctor Who, Sherlock or Mal Reynolds (OR Doctor Horrible!) next. So many, way too little time.

Possibly the world's smallest paper octopus; he's about the size of a quarter. I cut him out with a reaaally tiny razor blade. The frame is about...hmmmm, three inches across? I have been inspired to do a whole steampunk paper cut-out show. Lots of ideas : )

oh and: I notice that when I log onto a different computer the site photos are really, really dark. is it like that for other people? because on this computer (the one i photoshop with) it looks just fine. soooo... anybody have a hard time seeing the photos? jeez, if so I apologize - I'll be more careful in the future.

I had another opportunity to do one more book arts work shop the other week and I seem to have a theme going on. Boxes within boxes with, you guessed it, a Steampunk theme. Made from lots of different materials like book board, decorative papers and images from the Steampunk Sourcebook. Each little box is removable and has its own image.

From that awesome bird pattern book a PEACOCK. oh yea. Of course, I can't tell you how many hours it takes to put one together but its worth it. Now I'm going to make an albino peacock and i imagine that will look so very awesome. Also the peacock will be put up on the Etsy site as a commission if anyone is interested.

While I have an intense interest in fabric as sculpture/art I will be the first to admit I am NOT a seamstress and my talent with making clothes is pretty rudimentary. So that means it's easier to go to a second-hand store, FIND a piece of clothing and modify it like so.
This, in it's previous life, was a band uniform jacket (tags still inside) but the cut of it fits Steampunk very well. I have added the details; trim and lace but that's it.
Not sure what else I can do to it, I don't want to overload it with details and I've done what I wanted which was to make it look a little more military and add some lace for femininity. I have some brooches along the steampunk line to add but that's about it.
I wonder if that's an idea to make money; find clothing to alter and sell it on Etsy? Well, something to consider for the future.
When I own a tophat I'll take photos of the full outfit.

The other night I was fortunate enough to attend a lecture by an visiting artist by the name of Keil Johnson at the University of Reno, Nevada. We're pretty lucky in that we get some pretty amazing artists to visit.
His work is multi-talented; ranging from expansive, impressive drawings with amazing tiny detail to his better known work in creating 'things' with cardboard. He's probably better known for making these cameras (that actually work! so awesome!). Here's a short film on the process:



All in all an awesome lecture and inspiring stuff. I love working with paper too :)

As a long-time lover of manga I find myself at my old age of looking more at art style than anything (of course a decent storyline is important but still, STYLE man, style!) Which is why I was interested in Freaks Squeele. This is a manga drawn and written by a French comic artist with obvious influences from Japanese and American comics. LOOK at that use of Copic markers! Lovely.