AMAZING GIRAFFE BOY
The Amazing Giraffe Boy is part of my Circus Curiosities collection. He is sculpted from Polymer clay and painted with acrylic, then sealed with varnish. He was then strung together with beading wire and little doll buttons, so his pieces are movable. Giraffe Boy's cape is made with a vintage Christmas ribbon and his unicycle is made from a vintage Erector set. The drawer he is doing his high wire act in was found on the side of the road. He also features an electric light for drama.
IPHY & OLLY
Named after the twins from the book "Geek Love", this piece was also part of the CIrcus Curiosities series. The twins were sculpted from clay and have all moveable parts. Their dress was hand sewn and painted. They are set in a salvaged drawer and illuminated by an electric light.
MERBUNNY
Created as part of my Circus Curiosities series. Her arms and tail move. Sculpted from clay and set in a salvaged drawer. Lit with an electric light.
Photo by Rebecca Duerr
TWO HEADED BOY
So I love this band, Neutral Milk Hotel. They have this song "Two Headed Boy" and I made this sculpture of him because after waiting over a decade to see them live I was finally doing it. My goal was to smuggle him in his jar into the show, make my way to the stage, and place him before the feet of lead singer Jeff Mangum. A totally nerdy fangirl thing to do, I know. So, my husband begged me not to.
I hand sculpted his head, hands and feel out of polymer clay and painted them with acrylic. His body is wire and yarn so that he is fully poseable. I hand sewed his Sunday suit and dyed the fabric with coffee. The accordion was made with water tubing and origami paper. I then used a beading wire to suspend him from the lid of a large mason jar. He can be removed from his jar for examination and posing.
The figure itself is about 7 inches tall. The mason jar he is suspended in is 12 inches.
Thank you to David Bean for the amazing pictures.
ONE FLESH
I had a dog I loved named Gizmo. Our cat Cinnamon Toast would beg him all day to lick her ears. And he would, while she rolled around and purred. We all laughed and teased Gizmo about having a cat for a girlfriend. At the ripe old age of 13 Gizmo passed away. It's been 13 years and Cinnamon Toast still walks around the house begging for someone to lick her ears.
I made the figures in this shadowbox out of Clay, hand painted them with acrylic and sealed them with Sculpy Glaze. I hand stitched their wedding clothes, using mostly vintage pieces of lace and tea dyed napkins. The shadowbox itself was a thrift store find and once held pipes. I decoupaged vintage wall paper on the background and painted an antique patina on it. Finally I added a small candelabra light that glows behind a hand painted wood lantern.
ODD DUCK
I made this shadow box or diorama from a drawer left on the side of the road....I actually have a tool shed full of them (I confess!). I sculpted my little odd duck from Polymer Clay and painted him with acrylic paint. I sealed him with Sculpy glaze and used craft glue to put his vintage button eyes on. I carved and painted the wood layers or panels in the box from balsa and base wood. The box is fitted with a full size lamp light, and can hang on a wall as a lighting fixture or rest on a table top.
Photo by Rebecca Duerr
UNDEAD MERBUNNY
I love making very small pieces. This figure is made of clay, hand painted and permanently set in a small wooden jewelry box.
Photo by Rebecca Duerr
I QUIT
I love making very small pieces. This figure is made of clay, hand painted and permanently set in a small wooden jewelry box.
Photo by Rebecca Duerr
JEZEBUNNY
Created as part of my "Bunny BIble Show" solor exhibition at Undergrounds Coffeehaus in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Sculpted from clay, hand painted, hand sewn costume. Set in a salvaged drawer. Diorama elements hand carved and painted.
"When Jezebel, the queen mother, heard that Jehu had come, she painted her eyelids and fixed her hair and sat at a window. Jehu looked up and saw her at the window and shouted, "Who is on my side?" And two or three eunuch guards looked out at him. "Throw her down!" Jehu yelled. So they threw her out the window, and her blood spattered against the wall and on the horses. And Jehu trampled her body under his horses' hooves."
- 2 Kings 9:30 and following
ABSALOM, O ABSALOM
Created as part of my "Bunny BIble Show" solor exhibition at Undergrounds Coffeehaus in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Sculpted from clay, hand painted, hand sewn costume. Set in a salvaged drawer. Diorama elements hand carved and painted.
The second son of King David, Absalom, was a prideful and head strong man. “In all Israel there was not a man so highly praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom. From the top of his head to the sole of his foot there was no blemish in him.” Angry with his father King David because of the King's lack of action when his sister is raped, Absalom leads a rebellion against his father. “So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim...there was there a great slaughter that day, of twenty thousand men...The wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his beautiful hair caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away leaving him hanging by his hair.And the servants of David took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive hanging from the oak.”
- 2 Samuel 13 and 14
JONAH & THE WHALE
Created as part of my "Bunny BIble Show" solo exhibition at Undergrounds Coffeehaus in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Sculpted from clay, hand painted, hand sewn costume. Set in a salvaged drawer. Diorama elements hand carved and painted.
'The LORD provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights. Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the fish's belly, “...They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.” And the LORD (hearing his prayer) spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.'
- Book of Jonah 1 and 2
A NOBLE PROFESSION
I love making very small pieces. This figure is made of clay, hand painted and permanently set in a small wooden jewelry box.
Photo by Rebecca Duerr