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okay...so there's no title for this yet...it’s an experiment really….but i've been thinking for a while about doing "custom style" pieces.
Those of you who are familiar with designer toys will recognize the technique. I'm making the figure of clay and firing it, but then painting it. A bit different process from that of sculpting figures…or of buying a blank toy and painting it. I’m thinking that I will change DongoToys.com to just a “customs” site (where each sculpture would be one of a kind). These are quite a bit of work, but I really like painting them.
In school my professors always tried to get me to change my major to illustration because I was stronger in 2-D than 3-D so it’s nice to have an outlet for doing some 2-D work again.
Let me know what you think. It’s important to me to hear what the reaction will be to work like this…it’s always risky as an artist to change things up (not that I would stop doing work the way that I have been. But I would do less of it).
Thanks in advance!
-simon
Those of you who are familiar with designer toys will recognize the technique. I'm making the figure of clay and firing it, but then painting it. A bit different process from that of sculpting figures…or of buying a blank toy and painting it. I’m thinking that I will change DongoToys.com to just a “customs” site (where each sculpture would be one of a kind). These are quite a bit of work, but I really like painting them.
In school my professors always tried to get me to change my major to illustration because I was stronger in 2-D than 3-D so it’s nice to have an outlet for doing some 2-D work again.
Let me know what you think. It’s important to me to hear what the reaction will be to work like this…it’s always risky as an artist to change things up (not that I would stop doing work the way that I have been. But I would do less of it).
Thanks in advance!
-simon
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Simon, I honestly think that if you keep doing exactly what you're doing, keep each new piece completely unique, and in some way or another, continue to tie them all into the same wild world they're from, by staying with the palettes you're liking now. They work! They give off a sense of unusual, abnormal, metaphysical and What's most impressive is that the weirdness, (imo) is not over the top weird, but more subtly clever.