I was asked to do two torsos, with the end result in simple plaster, so the subjects can add their … More
Author: alittleart
A while back I ran away from a twentymumble-year corporate career to be a feckless art student. Since then I've dirtied my hands with, metaphorically and/or literally, bronze and ceramic sculpture, photography, and digital and traditional illustration. Mask making was one discovery, dovetailing with my interests in teaching and performing improvised theatre.
Rww, said the cat
Next alien creature mask for Return to the Planet : experimenting with a race genetically derived from big cats – … More
Ukulele making
My Xmas present to myself was a one-week ukulele making class at a local community college. I can now … More
It’s called a Cylicorn for a perfectly sensible reason people!
That sensible reason being that Cyclops+Unicorn=Cylicorn. The alternative result of using an Earth based myth-referencing concatenation system of nomenclature is … More
Cylicorns ready for painting
Plastic shells for the next two aliens. All this series are being made as half-masks, so the performers wearing them … More
First coat of blue-ish
Day two, Instamorph stage alien mask for a show next year, start of the paint job.
And so it begins . . .
My first mask of the season, the clay draft of a stage alien for a show next year. Yay!
Caterpillage
Look, an early monarch caterpillar, one of two hatchlings now munching through the remains of last year’s tattered swan plant. … More
White chalk on black paper
15 mins warm up, A3. Trying to keep the drawing loose . . .
Yes, I made a small chair
I spent this weekend at Wellington’s MakerSpace learning about miniatures, from two properly experienced film artists, fresh from several years … More
A Little Art 