- 'Little Green Men'
(not actually green) - Alfonso di Bunniti
Leader of The Bunny Mob. - Recently sold.
- Would you pay a tenner for this face?
- This is my favourite of my existing clay faces.
- The Aardvark of Uncertainty
- I've never been sure what this guy is.
I don't know what to call him. - This one's been a garden ornament, and probably should be again.
I wouldn't ask more than £5 for this, even though I've given it a pretty good wash since this was taken. - owl/dog-duck/tripod-thing
- I like this one a lot, but not from this angle.
- Mysterious eye-beast.
- Both of this turtle's front flippers broke off at some point!
At the recent craft party I replaced them with epoxy putty. It seems to have worked pretty well as far as form is concerned, but now I'm going to have to paint the whole thing.
Could be fun. - I wonder if this is a feline fox, or a foxy feline. I'm never quite sure.
- Some kind of Caped Avenger type character...
Creations Unpacked
I finally took a box of my old ceramic clay creations up to Edinburgh, from my parents' place in London where they've mostly just been clutter for the last few years.
I still miss working with actual clay, very much sometimes. Having these guys up here reminds me how much I enjoy it, and just how different it is from polymer clay or epoxy putty. I really must sort out some way of making and firing sculptures up here, whether the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (which didn't quite work out for me when I joined it a couple of years ago) or somewhere else entirely. There are probably places I could go in Glasgow, or even Paisley, aren't there?
I'm going to try selling some of these, I think; see if people are willing to pay for them something like as much they're worth to me. That varies enormously, if anyone's wondering - some of these are nowhere near my best work and I'd let them go for a tenner or less. My very favourites, on the other hand, are not going to be leaving my hands for less than about a hundred quid.
On another related note, I have a box of unfired sculptures in London, left over from the time my local craft centre had to shut down about four years ago. Many of them are slightly broken, but they shouldn't be too hard to repair. However, I would need a one-off use of a kiln and I still have no idea how to arrange such a thing. Anyone got any suggestions?
Comments and faves
chocopie1208 added this photo to their favorites. (58 months ago)
Picturejockey (58 months ago | reply)
Quite nice
The Neepster (58 months ago | reply)
These look really cool - have you ever been to the scottish sculpture workshop in lumsden, Aberdeenshire www.ssw.org.uk
pine apple lime (58 months ago | reply)
My only thought of possible places to use a kiln is my old high school (St Thomas' - Chalmers St) they have a whole room dedicated to sculpture and a large kiln in a seperate room. I don't know how it would be arranged but I know that they do hold adult classes at night for things such as aerobics and fitness; so there might actually be a sculpture class going? (and therefore access to the kiln outwith school hours). Might be worth a phonecall and maybe a chat with one of the art teachers, Mr Bonnar perhaps
:)
0olong (58 months ago | reply)
Thanks all!
Neepster - no, I haven't! I have heard of it, but I've never even been up to Aberdeenshire, despite an old friend of mine running an arts cafe up there...
p-lime - interesting thought! I've got a couple of leads elsewhere, but I'll explore that seriously if they don't come to much.
Mamf (58 months ago | reply)
If your thinking of selling, have you tried www.etsy.com?
0olong (58 months ago | reply)
Cheers Mamf, I have - but not as much as I should. I've had an account there for months - oolong.etsy.com - but only ever listed about three critters, and sold (I think) just one. Never really had the time to do it justice! Maybe after I come back from abroad...
Athena Carey (57 months ago | reply)
I quite like these small creations of yours. :)
0olong (57 months ago | reply)
Thanks Athena!
Hello, WANG, TZU HWA added this photo to their favorites. (53 months ago)
Wren's Nest Cottage (53 months ago | reply)
Love the feline fox/foxy feline. These are wonderful.
trek29 added this photo to her favorites. (40 months ago)