Moustache Wax

I cooked some more of my own brand, The Pugilist. For sale, 10 euros per tin!

Etching

I also tried etching and printmaking some time ago but forgot to post about it.

Book

I got once again excited on book making. so here's one I made yesterday, all pages and covers are standard copy paper I dyed.

Yeah, it says "Diary of a Madman"

Relic boxes

I bought some nice small wooden boxes from Italy last autumn and I've been working on them every now and then, staining and so on.
Well today I made some relic boxes of them. Chicken bones, red velvet, some coffee-dyed prints.

Stop-motion Animation

Tonight I made a short animation, here you are:

Airship project #6

Some more boarding done

I also started to prepare an (experimental) structure for the actual balloon.
It should be Zeppelin-shaped and as light as possible, so I decided to try a technique I recently heard of:

My mother had seen some dude, who made sculptures by rolling tiny, tight tubes of newspaper and then attaching them to each other with thread and glue.
This technique allows lightweight structures that still have strength to support considerable linear stress, and can be constructed in same way as traditional Finnish christmas decoration, straw-made "himmeli" (see photo). Besides, material suits a zero-budget project like this...

I did a few tubes to try it out. These are relatively thick and have many layers in them. Still, each piece required a piece of newspaper that was roughly the final length (a bit shorter actually) and about 7 centimeters wide. Add a couple of drops of paper glue and you can think how light these are compared to their strength:

That's one page of Helsingin Sanomat.

I also drew a sketch to plan on the cross-section for the balloon so I could make a test "slice" of the structure:

This has 16 surfaces for the covering,  I think that's close enough to round.
Haven't tried it yet, stay tuned.

This paper structure - if it seems to work - will take lots of time to complete but I'm quite excited.

Airship project #5

Today I reached a couple of remarkable stages: I started boarding the sides an made the main deck.
Here you go:

First board glued. I'm a bit proud of those wire holders, invented them myself.

Fitting a paper model of the deck

Fitting the actual deck. It's made of same stuff as the sides.
I know it'd be  HUGE if one was to think in realistic scale..
well I'm not, this is a fantasy project.
Besides I'm associating this more with old sailors' time-killing activities
than precise modelmaking.

Couple of other views of the deck.
It's starting to look like a ship, little by little :)

Finally I glued second boards to each side.
The front side's curve is a bitch to bend so it'll need heavy adjusting later.

Airship project #4

Last night I went to get a mounting table for a circular saw from my family's summer cottage where it was stored (while I was there I took this series of Alchemist's laboratory- photos for my project. More in Facebook)
and made some boards for the sides:

Kids. This is why you should always stand off from
the sawing line. This is about 5 meters behind me.

Today I'll start figuring out how to glue these boards to places. I prepared to this by taping the other side to get a clue how it might work:

It might work like this.
The medieval chick is from fairytale book, I took pictures of them because
there are some kick-ass illustrations. She's there just to fill in the empty square..
don't think too much.

Test tube rack

Something like five years ago I bought five test tubes from local crafts store because, well, test tubes are cool. I've been planning to make a rack for them ever since. Now I found them and finally did it. It still lacks a some sanding and staining, but you get the point:

Airship project #3

Today I got the arcs glued on their places. Next step is to start attaching boards to them.. and that's going to be one hell of a work. I have to start by sawing those boards first, then steaming them and finally fitting and gluing.. fortunately, I have lots of time. Which is why I got to start this project in the first place.

Airship project #2

Starting to trace patterns on a 6mm plywood.
That's an old woodcut plate made by my mother. She didn't need it anymore.

Here you can see better the material

Roughly cut pieces

This is how far I got yesterday (didn't have time to upload photos until now).

Airship project #1

A few weeks ago I went to see this new Three Musketeers movie. It was quite entertaining (no-brainer but entertaining) and left me with an obsession to those Da Vinci's (allegedly) airships (see pic here).

I've been planning and visualising a miniature since then and today I started making 1:1 scale drawings.
It's just the beginning for the structure and heavily based on English an Flemish galleons from 17th century but I'm quite excited.

Our Lady of Serpent Slaying

I don't know if this kind of technique has fancy name of its own, anyway I coated a glass plate with black wall paint and scratched the picture on the fresh paint with a wooden stick (first object I found on the floor).

The whole thing took like five minutes to do, although I have thought this for quite a while.

I might continue with this.
I should get an even-coloured, illuminated background for it so it'd show well.

Self portrait- project #2

Light layer of paint and Y-cut in the chest. 

Here you can see better the lamp it's hanging on

Gift paper

Well to be honest I just made this Photoshop pattern, but it'd be cool as gift paper.

Self portrait- project #1

Phase 1: frontal torso

Phase 2: head

Raw plaster cast of my torso and head. It looks damn scary and haunting.
Not sure of the result yet but I guess it won't get any nicer from this.
 Stay tuned.

Holy Diver

I know, the title's lame.

While in Italy..

Carved with blunt Mora-knife

I made this of found tile pieces. About A4-size

Hula-girls & Satan

I was designing a tattoo for a friend, and lost my temper after version 18 or so saying she should just let me do it my way and it'll be good.. well, she told me if I was allowed to do that, she'd be tattooed full of hula-girls and satan.

It actually sounds good.

So, as I was trying to hang my Triptych to the wall, I got attracted to its dirty black backside and drew this on it with blackboard chalks.

F-F-Falling

Some Biblical Photoshop play