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Photo of my sculpture on display at the Orange County Fair's art pavilion. The piece is called "Rimerunner", based on a painting by Wayne Douglas Barlowe. A polymer clay sculpture of an eyeless, single-footed alien, roughly the form of a theropod dinosaur, in mid-hop. The animal's head and back are deep blue, the rest of its body is a light blue-ish grey. A bright orange line separates the two colors along its length. Its head is swept back with three spikes on the tailing edge. At the base of its head on either side are protrusions resembling fleshy feathers with oversized quills. It has no arms. It has two "nostrils" on the front edge of its chest. It has a long tapering tail with a small hole going through it horizontally. A long spike sticks out from the base of the tail and extends parallel to it.
The DuckTales version of Selene, the Greek goddess and personification of the moon. She could be said to be quite hornt.
A clay sculpture of a large squig sits next to its warhammer plastic model counterpart. Squigs are basically large toothy mouths with a stomach attached, balanced on two legs and a tail. They range in size from larvae the size of rat terriers to four legged monstrosities the size of the largest earth mover dump trucks. This one is about the size of a triceratops.
Back end of the motorcycle, where a rocket engine on the end of the bike is belching out a cone of fire and smoke.
Mostly painted model of the ork Wazdakka Gutsmek from warhammer 40k. The model is of a large screaming ork ramping a heavily armed motorcycle off of a rock outcropping.
A palm-sized lump of pink sculpey clay smashed in such a way that a perfectly spherical eye has formed.
Five 3D printed miniatures frolic on and around a lime green ceramic vessel in the shape of a lime green chubby cat Cthulhu. Two minis make up a single kobold in a portal, caught mid-transit, creating two minis: front end exiting and back end entering. Joining it/them are a pair of tiny pill bugs, one playing a ukulele and one playing a horn, as well as a possum in a jester outfit. It is balancing on its tail, mouth agape, wielding a tambourine.
A chonky 40k space marine holds his magic staff level with the ground, pointing its business end straight in front of him. His hands are holding it much like one would hold a guitar while strumming the chord that ends the world.
An old sketch rendered in red pencil of two metal figures. Both are humanoid and made to look like living suits of armor. The knight in the foreground had a dragon-like head at the end of a long neck. The knight in the background is blessed with three such heads.
A scene from the film Moon Zero Two. The women are wearing long sleeves and miniscule skirts in bright colors.
Neck-up sculpture of an orange cat girl with flowing brown hair blowing in the breeze. A determined smile is on her face.
"Just hold out your thumb" A polymer clay sculpture of a red cigar-shaped retro futuristic space rocket with turquoise fins. It sits atop a plume of smoke that whilst around itself in loops and swirls at the base.
Painted miniature of an emperor penguin wearing chonky blue 40k Space Marine armor with gold trim, honding a rifle.
A painted miniature of a pigeon dressed as Robin hood, holding a bow at the ready.
Painted plastic miniature of a large ork from the 40k universe. He is adorned with large hunks of scrap metal forming a mechanical armature.
An African spurred tortoise basking in the sun on a grass lawn.
A Merlin bird ID session listing eight species: house sparrow, Northern mockingbird, Hooded Oriole, Eurasian collared dove, Canada goose, Allen's hummingbird, black phoebe, Swinhoe's white-eye
An unfinished polymer clay sculpture of a juvenile xenomorph.
A small blue and purple toad with a maroon mushroom cap atop its head sits on a stone amidst damp foliage. Its bottom lip is stuck out haughtily.
A large ork sits atop a two legged squigosaur. It is standing on flat red sandstone surrounded by dirt and dead grass. At its feet are the remains of a dead space marine.
Pencil sketch of a stylized suit of living armor holding a spiked pole polearm. It has three snake-like heads that originate from just below the torso; two smaller heads on either side of a larger central head.
Three fully built and painted miniatures from the tabletop game, Conquest, from the W’adrhŭn faction, this game's tribe of orcs. Each miniature is of a female orc huntress armed with a spear riding on top of a large feathered teal and lilac velociraptor.
An old sketch rendered in red pencil of two metal figures. Both are humanoid and made to look like living suits of armor. The knight in the foreground had a dragon-like head at the end of a long neck. The knight in the background is blessed with three such heads.
A polymer clay sculpture of a tall mushroom person. They have three eyes at irregular places on their long head, which is topped by a thin mushroom cap. They are holding a walking stick. A large snail is draped across their back like a bag.
An in-progress sculpture of a juvenile xenomorph. Most of the body is a rough sketch describing the form. One arm has some of the larger details worked into the clay.
A tiny hummingbird fluffy its feathers in silhouette against a cloudy morning sky.
Two large orks and a smaller gobbo are riding a slapdash Mad Max style three wheeled Deffkilla Wartrike. It is festooned with spikes on its rear wheels and parts of its frame.
Two polymer clay sculptures arranged in my backyard. A small, black, eyeless, spindly-armed Isz from the comic The Maxx is riding an eyeless, single-legged Rimerunner from Wayne Barlowe's book, Expedition. The Isz is grinning wildly while flipping the bird to the universe in general.
I'm holding the plastic model of a Squigosaur from Warhammer 40k. Her body is in the shape and color of a squat, big-mouthed great white shark but with a short lizard-like tail and no fins. She has a saddle mounted to her back. A large caliber shotgun revolver is attached to her right side with a square telescoping metal piston. Her left leg has been replaced with a cybernetic gear and piston powered leg. Powering this enhancement is an internal combustion engine of some sort grafter to her left side. The flesh around the cybernetics is an angry purple and red.
Cartoon still of Baron Silas Greenback from the Danger Mouse. He is a squat green frog wearing a 3 piece suit and spats.
A spindly armature made of foil and wire, bent into the shape of a Young xenomorph hunched down on all fours. A small version of the Big Chap with thin, insect-like arms. Its signature long head is still attached to its body at the shoulders.
Album cover for DJ Food's album Kaleidoscope.
A palm sized bird sits on a power line with his back to the camera. His body is lit by the sunrise, making the bright orange of the body and head glow bright in contrast with the black of the wings and shoulders.
Model of a Warhammer 40k Ork Deffkilla Wartrike, an absurd Mad Max style three-wheeled, spike-laden, rocket powered, twin cannoned, fat-tired motorbike crewed by three orks. The picture is of the assembled and painted model, minus the handlebars, front axle and crew.
Model of a Warhammer 40k Ork Deffkilla Wartrike, an absurd Mad Max style three-wheeled, spike-laden, rocket powered, twin cannoned, fat-tired motorbike crewed by three orks. The model is primered and laid out in modular pieces in various stages of painting.
Jennifer Connelly lit like a noir film singing into a microphone on stage in the movie Dark City.
Painted miniature of a large brass and iron automation in the form of a mosquito.
A crustacean peeks out of a segmented, witch-hat shaped turquoise shell. It walks on three pink tentacles with white claws on the ends for grip. A large central tentacle snakes out from the place where the legs converge. Its end blooms out onto a multi-toothed, three-phalanged mouth. Three longng tentacles whirl and twist out of the sides of the shell. Each thin pink tentacle is terminated by an unlidded eye. Each eye is turned towards the camera.
An extremely shiny, squat, round, teal, yellow, and rust ceramic vessel rotates slowly on a blue banding wheel. A fiery skipper - a small quick butterfly with delta-shaped bright orange wings - has alighted on the lud's handle. It solemnly sits as the piece rotates once, after which it takes off.
Polymer sculpture of a shark-like mermaid. Her body is curled into a defensive stance, her left hand holding a curved knife close to her chest.
Me holding two small bottles of shimmery metallic paint from Turbo Dork. Galaxia, an opalescent liquid that dries into a purple metallic shine, and Black Ice, a metallic black coat. Both paints work best when layered over a black base coat.
Mid close up of the alien queen model in all her shining chitinous glory.
A large, hairless turquoise sphinx cat steers angrily at someone out of frame. It utters one word, "LYING".
A 1/12 scale model of the alien queen from the movie Aliens glistening in all her chitinous glory from a fresh coat of black primer.
Wayne Douglas Barlowe painting of a rimerunner. Its body resembles that of a theropod dinosaur with no arms and a single leg that starts on either side of the body and meets at the knee. It has a long, swept back head with no eyes.
A multi-eyed interdimensional being coldly considers a sleek, cigar-shaped spaceship, which is several orders of magnitude smaller. The creature is roughly the shape of a Portuguese man of war jellyfish, with six chitinous and tentacled arms below a large upper body/head. The front part of its upper body is dominated by a face, of sorts. Its mouth resembles a parrot's beak with square, jagged edges. Each side of its head has ten eyes situated down the length of its carapaced body. One of its legs is reaching out to the small ship.
Me holding a human shaped stop motion armature in my hand.
13 assembled sections of a metal stop motion puppet armature are laid out on a countertop in the shape of a human body. Sitting at the top is a clay figure's head.
My hand holding a pinball-sized spherical head. She has a bean-shaped cartoon smile and oversized cartoon eyes roughly drawn on her face, complete with ink smudges and sketch marks. A curl of inky black hair drips down to cover her left eye partially. She has two twisting horns spiraling up from either side of her head. The left horn is translucent with small ink smudges. The right horn is black and translucent spirals.
A clay action figure with no details painted on is posed in the palm of my hand. Bendy is an ink demon in the form of a small 1930s style cartoon character. He has a large round head with short horns that blend in to the side of his head. He is looking away with his left hand on his forehead while giving a thumbs down with his right.
A green skinned ork grins up at his prosthetic hand. Two of its five robotic fingers are syringes filled with bright liquids, two are small pointed blades, and one is a hatchet topped with a gas powered circular saw. On his back is a chemistry lab with tubes leading to his robotic hand and a crude injection weapon strapped to his other hand. A small goblin sits on his back grinning and holding a large syringe with golden liquid dripping from the tip.
A smooth-skinned shark-ish mermaid is curled into a defensive pose brandishing a curved dagger in its left hand.
Two metal adornments worn by The Creature during its resurrection. A metal skull cap that covers the eyes and nose and a metal rib cage with a copper and glass battery in its sternum.
Two 1/12 scale models in their boxes side by side. On the left is the Alien Queen and on the right is Ripley in the power loader, both from the movie Aliens.
The Five Neat Guys from SCTV. John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, and Rick Moranis in V-necked sweaters of differing pastel colors.
An unfinished, armless sculpture of a mermaid in a defensive curled up position.
A one seven-hundredth scale model of Gamera the turtle kaiju stands side by side with a chitinous crab-like kaiju (I haven't come up with a name). The crab'right claw is much larger than its left claw. It has two sets of three lime green eyes on either side of its thin carapace. The top third of its height is taken up by a tall bladed section of shell.
1/700 scale model of Gamera the turtle Kailua, assembled but unpainted, standing in the palm of my hand.
Sculpture of a monopedal alien in mid hop. Its body resembles that of a theropod dinosaur with no arms and a single leg that starts on either side of the body and meets at the knee. It has a long, swept back head with no eyes.
Sculpture of a monopedal alien in mid hop. Its body resembles that of a theropod dinosaur with no arms and a single leg that starts on either side of the body and meets at the knee. It has a long, swept back head with no eyes.