Journal

Creativity Blogs

2013-04-08T16:02:05Z

Here are a couple more blogs I found interesting. Creative Something has a lot of articles and some good links if you find yourself needing motivation/inspiration. Sustainably Creative is a similar blog that is written by a man with some fairly significant health problems that limit him physically, but sure don't seem to hold him back artistically. Check them both out! I know, I should be spending less time reading about being creative and more time actually going out and creating ... I'll get right on that.

Geek Art Blog

2013-04-04T18:09:56Z

Oooh! I found another geek art blog, this is a French one but the posts are also written in English. Not that it matters much, the focus is the art. Yay! More geekery! I added the link to my 'Cool Stuff' section at the right, too. :)

Fungal Christmas Art

2013-03-26T16:06:00Z

I know this is the wrong time of year for Christmas art, and (as usual) I'm about three years behind on the trending links, but this is too cool not to share. Fungal culture Christmas tree! The geek in me just went "Squeeee!"

Plush Jon Snow and Ghost

2013-03-22T13:11:00Z

Yep, I'm a big fan of the Game of Thrones TV series, too. It's got baby dragons in it, what's not to love? Game of Thrones inspired art was inevitable, and this has to be one of the best. It's a plush Jon Snow and Ghost by Mick Minogue. Love it. From the artist's own description:

A handmade personal plush inspired by the saddest character In the Game of Thrones series. Jon Snow the bastard son of House Stark and his trusty Direwolf 'Ghost'. This lonely plush doll comes with his own Valyrian steel sword 'Longclaw'. Ghost comes with his very own White Walker hand which he found out past the wall In the snowy snow.

Lots more photos can be found here.

Pysanky Fabric

2013-03-11T00:15:41Z

I wandered over to Spoonflower last week and saw that the theme of one of their upcoming fabric design contests is 'painted eggs.' I couldn't help it. I had to create something for it! Here is my design, based on traditional Ukrainian pysanky. You can find it on the Spoonflower website here.

Josh Ellingson - Simone and Cthulhu

2013-03-05T16:34:00Z

I love it. :)

Simone and Cthulhu by Josh Ellingson

Cernunnos: Antlers

2013-02-27T02:19:34Z

One antler sculpted!

NY Times

2013-02-19T17:00:00Z

A recent NY Times article titled Why We Love Beautiful Things examines a bit of science behind good design. It's a good read, and it makes me want to paint a mural on my studio wall. :)

Face of the Earth Terrariums

2013-02-12T16:31:00Z

Face of the Earth is an Etsy shop that sells (among other things) some intricate and amazing terrariums. My favorite is the Beetlejuice terrarium, pictured here. There's also a mini Bag-End and a Breaking Bad terrarium. Mini-ecosystems + pop culture geekery = awesome!

Cernunnos Gets a Body

2013-02-05T02:15:57Z

Some progress on Cernunnos again. He's got most of a body now. The bulk of the body is wool needle felted over the wrapped wire armature. I think he looks so much better now than he did as a bare armature! Because he will be wearing somewhat bulky clothing, I don't need his body to be super detailed. I just need all the parts to be in roughly the right place, to fill out the clothing in a believable fashion. There's still a lot of hard sculpting left to do (hands, antlers, ears, neck), but I felt like changing gears for a while and this is what I accomplished.

I also had Brian take a photo of me working on him, to show the scale. This is probably the biggest art doll I've ever made. Most of them tend to top out around 18" to 20" tall or so. If Cernunnos was standing up straight, he'd be over 30" tall.