“Out of the book”
I made this out of old books, I wanted to try something different, so I did an octopus coming out of a book. This was suppose to be a gift for my older brother…but, seems he didn’t like it that much.
After so much work on our renovations the past year it’s nice to be able to spend some time on what I really enjoy, making art. I designed this pendant a few years ago and it is by far my best seller. Every time I finish one of these I understand why. I am pleasantly amazed at what #3dprinting allows me to produce. Yay #technology! Available through the link in my profile or at our gallery @wooden_octopus in Berlin, MD. #finejewelry #sterlingsilver #octopus #octonation #designer #instacool (at Wooden Octopus)
This little guy is the first one in a series I’d like to call Bio-spheres (I was very happy when I came up with that name and found it very clever :P) I’d like each one of them to contain an animal I love (or just love to look at) or alittle environment with different animals. At the moment I decided to exclude animals with either fur or feathers for I don’t quite know how to pull that off in that scale, but I might include them once I found a good technique.
So. On to the Octopus. I made him mostly from polymer clay (this time it was a brand called pardo of which I got a bunch of jewel colours from a former job. It was a really, really lovely shade at one point, but I mostly painted over it so you can’t really see it anymore) but painted him in a lot of layers to achieve the mottled “skin”. I started off with another Octopus, which, surprise, surprise, turned out a bit too big for the sphere I envisioned, which turned out to be awesome, though, cause I was able to play around with painting techniques, and especially with the suckers. I originally planned to make them in polymer clay too, but then decided that I don’t want to get crazy yet. So I ended up painting first a little dot of paint and then taking paint away with a very fine dotting tool. To complete the piece I added a little bit of sand and small rocks to the base. The Pendant measures a bit more then 30 mm, the dome itself measures 25. The pictures truly don’t do this piece justice.
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Source: asabaijan
Hidemasa - Octopus Priest. N.d., early 1800s
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At 27 years old, Shinri Tezuka may be one of the youngest people still practicing the dwindling art of amezaiku, or candy crafting, in Japan. The self-taught Japanese artist carves, sculpts and paints delicate lollipops into intricate edible sculptures. Amezaiku dates back hundreds of years, but today there are only two artists left in Tokyo. Tezuka hopes his elaborate goldfish, frog and octopus designs will inspire the next generation of candy crafters to keep the tradition alive.
