Painted Doll Face

Stars

I'm planning on using these stars in a mobile or similar hanging project.




Carrion Crawler








Bossk




Cy-Gor




Tessek

Unfired Ustigalor

Ever since I acquired the brain mold, I've been thinking of possible uses for it beside to make clay brains. The ustilagor is a brain-shaped D&D monster - a psionic, fungoid, larval creature that happens to look like a human brain. This is my interpretation. Ustilagor are supposed to have legs and be able to scurry across a room like a psionic, fungoid, larval mouse, but I knew any legs I could make would be unlikely to support the body, so I'm going to imagine it zooming across a room on a slug-like slime trail.







Here are some dogface plaques made from a plastic likeness of Cerberus.

Scrap Atavisms

I hate dumping clay leftovers in the slip bucket. After a certain point, the clay is unworkable, but sometimes I prefer producing crude non-sculptures such as the objects below to giving it up to be recycled by the studio.

Devotion Icon/Cultural Icon

The matte red underglaze didn't come out red enough, so I repainted the Devotion Icon's hair with acrylic paint. It makes the piece neither more nor less crappy.




The Devotion Icon joins the cast of the cultural icons of Jersey Shore

Rollo Bones, Canine Trivet

I sent my sister a box of thrift store books for nephew Milo. Among them was the classic of la literatura infantil, Rollo Bones Canine Hypnotist. I made a Rollo Bones object, intending it to be used as a wall hanging, but it was apparently more suited to being a trivet.

Quint Devotion

The Quint Devotion utilizes arms from a set of doll molds and a face from a Disney-branded doll (although I don't recognize the character) with a hard face perfect for mold making, as opposed to those annoying Barbies with their grotesque, squishy faces. I made five molds of varying quality from the doll's face and this devotion utilizes all five.




I stare at you with my cold, dead eyes.

Tree Trunk Devotion

This is the Tree Trunk Devotion, featuring a face, torso, and arms from a set of doll molds.

Fiend Devotion

The Fiend Devotion is part of this year's crop of clay Halloween objects. The Devotions are pieces made with parts from a doll mold, in this case the arms, one of which broke off in the kiln. The head is from a candy container which screams and giggles when jostled in any way (see below).




The head resembles the skull face originally from the film serial The Crimson Ghost, which was recycled in the eighties as the logo and mascot for the hardcore punk band the Misfits.

Wererat Idol

My wererat idol is based on a inflatable rat used as a satirical mascot by an electrical workers' union in New Jersey. The glaze used for most of the body is called "pussywillow," but applied lightly it comes out mouse gray.












Since this is a wererat, it has the ability to assume a human/rat hybrid form, which is in this case portrayed by its very human pair of buttocks. The buttocks (and paws) were left the natural color of the clay with only a few coats of transparent glaze for that erotic rat-ass shine effect.

Last of the Miniatures

These are lesser fire elementals, the last of the miniatures for this season of D&D Encounters.




This is an image of the Misfits' fiend/Crimson Ghost logo/mascot which is intended to be used as a mold.

Devotion Icon

This is the last of the first group of 2011 Halloween Devotions. It's attached to a flat slab of clay and doesn't stand on its own. It has a reddish halo, so it's the Devotion Icon.

Tall Devotion

This is the Tall Devotion, another doll-parts experiment, this time with a baby's face and a distorted (adult) female torso.

Horned Devotion

This is the Horned Devotion, the result of continued experimentation with the doll molds.

Waddling Devotion

The first of the Halloween Devotions is the Waddling Devotion. The doll mold used to make the faces and torso is made for polymer clay. It comes out distorted with the natural, silicon-based clay that I use, which suits my purposes just fine.








The Waddling Devotion is two faced. Here is the other side.