Jess Soleigh

@soleigh.bsky.social

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ADHD art goblin, animator, puppet builder/fabricator, mini things, server dad, craft obsessed. To hell with your "ai". They/she. https://ko-fi.com/jsoleigh

A tall and perky chocolate bundt cake freshly turned out of the pan onto a plain white plate to cool on top of my stove.
Photo of a very thick (VERY! This book is BIG) spiral-bound book on my couch, titled "The Anti-Planner: How to get shit done when you don't feel like it!"
A text description on the user's video upload "@KIB-KIB FILMS A cozy little world. I am sorry for not marking that this content was AI-Generated. I am am AI creator, but I do hope this content brings you joy."
The 1:12 scale model room diorama I am building from the previous post. The subfloors and walls are still the bare plywood and framing, but I've started to lay hand-cut floorboards made from 1/16th inch maple. Half the flooring is done and glued in, but the upper half only has enough boards for half of that (I have more maple being delivered next week). There is a tiny broom and dustpan posed in one corner of the room.
A strangely drawn human hand feeding a strangely drawn animal. The human says "you are safe now my sweet child". The animal says "i owe you my life".
A large framed canvas print of Monet's "The Seine at Giverny" hanging in a staged room in an IKEA catalogue. The painting is in very muted colors, very greyish browns with just a hint of green. An impressionistic view of full bushy trees at the edge of a river on the opposite bank from the viewer, their reflection somehow both clear and yet muddied in the water.
a snippet from the related story posted on reddit, "I'm pro police too, but this is ridiculous. Even just staking the property and verifying the culprit is actually there before busting in. Anything. We're looking at at least $25K in-"
The back wall and a freestanding wall frame (that will hold the little door) taped together to dry fit to the floor base, where I've also started the stair step panels to help frame the floor boards that will go down later. The two chairs are also back sitting on the floor in their planned spots to check their scale. Everything is being worked at 1:12 scale, where one inch is roughly equal to one foot in life.
Various quarter inch thick wood pieces laid out and glued together to resemble interior wall framing studs. The larger wall studs surround a scale model door I made many months prior and finally get to use.
A random scattering of thin craft woods, a platform I built last night with some marks for a landing and step on it, a couple pre-made miniature chairs from my collection, all sort of plopped on top of a rough blueprint of the floorplan. I am miserable and every step in this is agony my brain is not wanting any part of.
A mostly finished miniature bookcase made of thin sheets of basswood. Most of the moulding is being glued to the base form of the shelves, with remaining pieces lying around it.
Close up photo of a linoleum print carving in progress. The art is a slight arc of twisted tree roots coming off a trunk to one side. Below it reads the really badly carved backwards text of "so below" because I decided to carve these way too small.
The photo reference I used for the painting, showing the sunny glen surrounded by trees somewhere out of the way in the valley at Yosemite National Park.
The finished painting, a small lush and grassy glen edged by narrow birch tree trunks and a bright sunny meadow of taller grasses and weeds beyond.
Detail of the painting with further progress: the grass is being filled out now with volumes of shadows and light, and the tree trunks have bark detailing fleshed out and almost complete.
A small rectangle of watercolor paper taped to a flat surface, a wash of greens and vibrant yellow-greens already laying out a painting of a small grove of grass framed by the trunks of narrow trees. There's a bit of detailing started but not much at this stage.
Photo of a page of storyboards, the same ones in the video posted by OP. On it are five panels, all hand drawn in pencil, showing how the camera paning back and forth to follow the action of one car driving around another is laid out.
A wooden desktop drawer with a collection of oddities displayed on top. In the center is a beautifully hand sewn felt doll in the shape of a large strawberry. It has three glassy green cat eyes with eye lids sculpted around it, and a green tuft of leaves on top that sit like a wide brimmed hat.
A photo taken front on of a statue of Yoda in the center of a fountain. It sits in the outdoor courtyard entrance to the lobby to Lucasfilm.
A close up photo of a large chunk of white quartzite (quartz rock) laying on a dry grassy ground. There are small thin specks and lines of black tourmaline mineral crystals growing within it.
A tabletop covered in ocean polished rocks of multiple sizes and colors (plus a few oyster shell pieces) all arranged in a nice square, with smaller pieces at the top and larger at the bottom. The rocks are a variety of reds, greens, browns and blacks, a good number with bright white quartz inclusion stripes like painted on lines.
A tall vertical photo of a street in Chinatown San Francisco, with red paper lanterns strug high across the street.
Close up of the box lid on another miniature furniture piece from the X-Acto House of Miniatures series, showing a preview image of a Willard tall case grandfather clock from the 1790s...
The finished 1:12 scale side chair, stained a dark walnut color, edges rubbed to look old and used, and a furniture wax to seal the wood. The equally aged soft blue seat cushion has been glued in and fits perfect.
A small square color illustration in gouache watercolor. A small outpost of simple buildings, pipes, and distant windmills sits on a stormy coast surrounded by foggy dark shadowy mountains.
The wooden chair all glued together, sanded again, then the cushion placed on the seat to have a look at it so far before staining.
The tiny seat cushion now wrapped with a medium blue fabric, clamped in place with several small green sewing clips while the glue on the underside dries.
My hand holding a small thin foam pad in the shape of a tiny seat cushion, and a single straight and SUPER sharp hair shaper blade between my fingers. These blades are the best for cutting and shaping foam accurately without snagging or tearing jagged edges.
The little wood chair pieces being softly clamped at the seat and back to ensure the pieces stay snug at the joints. Behind this is a little red hexagon shaped silicone rubber container with the lid on but inverted, so the inner scalloped ridges can be used to rest the matching rubber glue brush.
A close up of two identical chair pieces, but one is sanded while one is not. The unsanded piece has a rougher and sharper edge all around, while the sanded piece has a gentle chamfer on the edges and the cuts to the piece now appear far smoother and natural looking for what a finished piece of furniture would have.
Several of the wooden chair pieces laid out on my work surface, sanding sticks and paper about as I carefully sand each piece.
The box cover to a small vintage 1:12 scale model kit of two early 1800's wooden side chairs. The brand labeling is X-Acto's House of Miniatures Collectors series, and the picture on the left of the box shows a completed chair against a dollhouse room wall.
Another pen doodle while journaling...this time of Lupin III and his friend Jigen. They're crudley drawn and look like their doing a jig. Jigen is holding the cartoonish gun in question. Behind them is a word bubble that reads "time to steal a thing!"
A small pen sketch in black in on faint dotted graph paper. It's a mouse wearing a turtleneck sweater and puffy pants holding an open book. He's standing next to a small desk with bookshelves behind it.
A frame from Blazing Saddles again. A posse of western dressed men on horseback are stopped at a lone tollbooth plopped in the middle of the desert. Subtitle reads, "Le Petomane thruway? Now what'll that asshole think of next?!"
A frame from the movie Blazing Saddles. Jim (Gene Wilder) and Bart (Cleavon Little), now the town sherrif, are casually sitting around in the sherrif's office sharring a bottle of booze.
A page of only text descriptions earlier in the same book. The font/typeface seems to be similar to a typewriter font or Courier. The descriptions are of jewel counts in pocket watches and how commom they are, and their relation to quality and value.
A two page spread of rows of pocket watch diagrams (as line art) to identify the timepiece via the layout and plate inscriptions on the back of the movement. Each has further techical information written underneath. This is in an old used copy of "American Pocket Watches - Identification and Price Guide: Beginning to End...1830-1990" (printed 1987)
A crisp brand new hardcover book sitting on a plush blanket. It's titled "We Deserve This. (A Transfemme Automotive Lookbook)" by Victoria Scott, and has a photo of a woman on the cover smiling and posing with her silver/champagne colored car. Underneath this book are some used books that I also ordered, naturally for my other hobbies including pocket watch identification.
The three mini canvas paintings again, the gradients smoothed out a bit and now a bit of background detail added to each. For the green gradient, some leaves framimg the scene in shadow. On the blue, it now seems to be a sky with a few large dandelion puffs floating about. The yellow gradient now has some darker cracks painted on, suggesting cracked mud.
A slimline wooden art drawer full from left to right with gel pens (and a few random). There are a lot of neon pinks, oranges, teals and greens, with a few metaillic or glitter colors. Quite a few white, grey, and black pens too since I use those the most. The new red and dark red have been added to the collection.
My hand holding two classic gelly roll brand gel pens, one is red and the other is a darker brown/brick red.
Three 2.5 inch canvases laid out on a desk, each painted a different simple gradient of colors. One is a yellow/brown, next is light green to dark, and the third a sky blue to a very light turquoise.
My dog Radec, a large hound mix, trotting along happily at a dog park with a tennis ball in his mouth and showing off some serious muscle in his legs. He's mostly white with floppy brown ears and a big classic brown splotch on one eye, and his tail curls in a big arc over his back.
The completed (for now) sleeve holder, a 12 inch round birch veneer panel stained a medium brown amd finished with a wax paste. There are circular score marks on the panel to make it look like a vinyl record. A small black acrylic shelf is attached to the bottom so a record sleeve can sit on it, and it's laser cut to read "NOW PLAYING". The wax finish currently has a flat, matte look to it, but buffing it tomorrow will give it a nice sheen before it fully cures hard.
The same area of wood from the previous photo, but now the small punctured holes have been pressed, filled, and smoothed over so they are almost not visible.
Close up on the other side of the wood disk, which has already been stained and finished with a hard wax paste...except my dumb ass punched the tips of the screws mounting hardware on the back right through!
A 12 inch disk of veneered wood on my craft table. It's the back of it (or what I determined is the back, since I prepped it with mounting screw holes), and it's been painted black with acrylic paint. Sitting next to it is a small plastic shelf with the words "NOW PLAYING" carved out of the front facing lip, ready to be attached to the wood once the paint is dried.
A comic drawn on paper: panel 1, a cartoony me is triumphantly proclaiming "Oh boy! Comic time!" Panel 2, I am bent over a blank book on the ground like a goblin, "I'm gonna do one of the stupid charlie horse cramp I got the other day!" Panel 3, I am drawing in the book, but a look of dread has crossed my face. My head has started glowing red. Pulsating veins have appeared. The final panel, I seem to be shouting, weeping, exascerbated, my head in some full-blown grotesue throbbing pain, as ribbon-like banner motifs surround me in space. More red colors and now yellow hilight the scene. In elaborate tattoo script, written on the banners, "not another DAMN *HEAD-ACHE*"
Detailed photo of a nice clean pocket watch timepiece removed from it's case, the back open and some of the components removed for cleaning, showing the train of wheels and balance wheel.
A detailed shot of an old gold plated (filled) pocket watch resting in my hand. The back dedication plate is open and reads "From Father and Mother, to Arthur, June 22, 1909".
buff shiba dog meme, standing buffly
Screenshot from the Weather Star 4000+ app. "Local Forecast (for today's date at 9:24 AM. TODAY...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY AFTER 2PM. MOSTLY SUNNY, WITH A HIGH NEAR 92. HEAT INDEX VALUES AS HIGH AS 102. SOUTHEAST WIND 6 TO 9 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION IS 70%. NEW RAINFALL AMOUNTS LESS THAN A..." reading ends here.
The start of a large square panel of crochet in a moss stitch (so it's currently just a strip about 10 rows in) sitting on an ottoman sort of floppy, while the yarn ball is in a cute little box under it.
A preview image of a tabletop miniature from the Warhammer series. It's a large horselike creature with dragon wings and scales, painted in bright hues of orange teal and white, and antlers like a deer. It's rearing slightly upright off a crop of rocks while a chinese-esque styled warrior sits on it's back.
Photo of the foam pineapple puppet body, wrung out from the dye bath and just sitting in an empty tub to air dry. Next to it is a bottle of the dye used, Rit Dye More in daffodil yellow.
And old still frame from an episode of The Muppet Show, where a large cluster of various fruit and vegetable hand puppets all have their mouths open in mid-song.
A large oblong soft foam piece that has been carved into the shape (and size...maybe a bit bigger) of a pineapple. It sits in a yellow dye bath in a plastic tub slowly soaking it up from the bottom before i gave it a good squeeze and tumble to even it out.
Photo of the small plesiosaur plushie in my hand being help up, a small fuchia hibiscus flower with a couple leaves made from felt is attached to the side of her head like she's wearing it to look very pretty and cute.
The finished small plush plesiosaur all stuffed and sitting upright, made in a light bluish mint color with a white belly and small black round eyes.