Day 21: Tinfoil

Title: CrispyCritter Lamp

Assignment: Do something with only tinfoil today. How many different ways can it be used?

Materials: Aluminum foil, a votive candle

Inspiration: Spike wisely left the apartment before I could fashion him an alien space helmet, so I went with Plan B. I wanted to make a shadow lamp, using folded layers of foil to try to strengthen the sides, punched holes, which then became bigger and sloppier so I turned the two largest into eyes.

Created a little candle platform in the base for the candle and a hook out of folded and twisted foil.

It sagged in on itself enough to create a sort of head-like shape, and once lit it took on the creepy look of a burned-up, desiccated corpse. 

I actually like this one the best, even though it doesn't look much like a face. I think the contrasting pattern and the liquid vs rough look of the foil, like hardened metal, is pretty cool. Not the sturdiest of lamps, but it did hold up to hanging from my finger!

Day 120: Invent an Animal

Title: The Dreaded 3-eyed Vaccapolypus

Assignment: Create an animal that has never existed before.

Materials: Sculpy, some tiny beads, some tinfoil and toothpicks for support underneath.

Inspiration: I just let my hands decide what sort of animal they wanted to create. Vac here is about 3 inches high. I did want to experiment some more with using different colors of Sculpy and blending, rather than using any paint.

BINKY BONUS!

Title: Binky

Materials: Sculpie, Acrylics, a garlic press to squeeze out strands for his fiery mane, and there's a toothpick support underneath his horn. He's about 3"high.

Inspiration: My brother Jim has always been a fan of my weirdness, and since he is recovering from some major surgery I made BINKY THE MAGIC UNICORN and mailed it down to him with a little extra healing power juju mixed in.

KEEP GETTING BETTER, JIM! I LOVE YOU!!

Day 119: Box

Title: ボックスの幻影 (Ghost in a Box)
Assignment: Make something in a box. Any type of small box will do: shoebox, cigar box, shipping box, even a suitcase.

Materials: Patterned papers, sculpie, paint.

Inspiration: I wanted to make my own box, so found directions on how to make an origami one with lid. At first I thought the little Noh mask I sculpted would be an ornament atop the box, but I liked the shadowbox effect it made resting inside the box better.

Day 118: Wood

Title: Sentry

Assignment: Make something out of wood. (Any kind will do; twigs, sticks, toothpicks, etc)

Materials: Sticks, reeds and pinecones I gathered on my walk around Greenlake, a few strips of Tshirt (I figured all-cotton material qualified), hot glue to keep his parts from crumbling, a little wine for coloring, PS for touchup.

Inspiration: I'd started out trying to make something that'd be disturbing to come upon on a lonely walk in the woods, but I think he turned out to be more happy wood sprite than Blair Witch.  So I added the disgusting strips of material to give him a little more gravitas and hung him from the nearest thorn branch.

Day 117: Go out of your way

Title: Rosemary's Daycare

Assignment: Travel somewhere you wouldn't normally go today specifically to create something inspired by that location.

Materials: Pen, Pencil, Colored Pencil, PS for touch up.

Inspiration: Anyone who knows me knows that the baby section at the local Target on a Sunday is about the last place on earth you'd ever find me.

The long line of strollers stretching on to the Crack of Doom inspired me,

















and I couldn't resist making this quick sketch 'sequel' to the Polanski classic. (If you click the image you'll see a bit more detail :) )

Day 116: Map it

Title: Alien star chart
Assignment: Create something using an old map OR something that ends up looking like a map.

Materials: Photoshop, Fractal generator

Inspiration: I was feeling more 'free form' today, and didn't feel like going "Ye Olde Treasure Map' route in spite of the name of this blog, so I played around with an online fractal design generator and PS, turning it into something an alien commander might consult.