tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16168968998295860312024-03-13T09:39:39.214-07:00Dr. FreakinstyleThis blog is about, Dr. Victor Freakinstyle, a self taught sculptor who makes sculptures out of bones, clay and bike parts to create humorous and startling new sculptures informed by popular culture and environmental issues.
Be sure to check out my sculptures at www.drfreakinstyle.com or like my Fanpage at https://www.facebook.com/Dr.FreakinstyleDr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.comBlogger223125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-58217640993655590192015-12-02T07:48:00.002-08:002015-12-02T07:48:54.687-08:00Transformer finished!SO I finally finished my Transformer!<br />
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I have had this idea for a long time and a couple of years ago I failed, because I used joints which were too weak and were hard to connect to the bone, but now they all work brilliantly! The hardest parts were to fit in an proper looking transformer within the skull and to make it stand on its own. How often have I changed the design of the feet and head to balance it and fit it all in there and several times I adjusted the place where joints needed to be.<br />
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The thing is with artists and ideas is not that they think really hard and the get one great idea and make it, but they get hundreds of ideas and they select one that seems to make sense, sort of. Well, this idea made a lot of sense, because it expresses my appreciation for nature, my curiosity towards death, my fascination with things that appear different then they are, my clinging on to some childhood toys etc. So it is a lot about me, but at the same time about a growing trend in our society where people don't seem to grow up in a certain way. They might become more responsible and have fancy jobs, but feel no embarrassment to express their love for childhood objects or pleasure. Besides, it also serves as a great way to show the contrast between artificial and natural that we subconsciously experience everyday! Whether it is in our manufactured food or when some people enjoy the outdoors while eating a sandwich in their car.<br />
But above all, I just really wanted to have something like this!<br />
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This is a first version of a stop motion video to show the transformation from skull into robot:<br />
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Oh yes, and it took a lot, a lot of time to make this….Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-69404409045799249532015-11-11T00:58:00.000-08:002015-11-11T00:58:01.651-08:00More than Meets the EyeMore than Meets the Eye, was the catch phrase of one of my favourite cartoons; The Transformers. If you have followed me on Facebook or my blog, you would now know that I have had little time to spend on making new sculptures and that this precious little time has all gone up in making just one sculpture. It is my way to have a feeling I have accomplished something in 2015 in art. It is not entirely finished, but nearly there and when I started, I was definitely not sure if this would work or not. Well, it did! Off course there are some elements I could have done differently, but doing something new is always a learning process and with that come new ideas. Frustratingly, because I still won't have much time next year.<br />
However, there is one thing that I didn't manage to do and that is to make this Transformer easy to transform multiple times without getting damaged. Painting so far has been very frustrating with moving parts scratching each other before I have the time to add some protective varnish. Even with the varnish it will damage over time by transforming it. Besides, two joints won't have eternal life and it takes 10 minutes roughly to transform. But the plan was always to make a stop motion film or video of the process, so beside the finished pictures, I will show a video as being the next two things you can expect. For now I leave you with the latest work in progress pictures….<br />
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Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-82790310100949126742015-07-29T01:46:00.001-07:002015-07-29T01:46:13.566-07:00'It's the economy stupid!' The famous words from Bill Clinton 'It's the economy stupid', are subconsciously banging on my artistic brain and now it hammered through into my consciousness. Everybody knows they need to eat and therefor buy food and luckily I was able to, but where does making sculptures take me 10 years from now? Am I still able to afford doing this? I would really love to, because I love making these weird things and I love all the positive vibes I get from the general public! But as long as I can't eat positive air, I need to find a way to improve my income. I do sell and think I do quite well considering how I have started and the lack of an art network, but it isn't near a living wage. So I will take some time to plan how I financially can keep this going, because I still believe there is life in what I make, it is just so hard to get my art across.<br />
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Many people suggest solutions like internet, finding famous and/or rich people etc. But that is easy to say but hard to implement and so far it hasn't worked to earn as a normal professional. It seems I do sell when people meet me and see my art away from the screen and the comments I get are always good, often where people don't have to be positive. I am pretty sure it isn't politeness to say so, I think I genuinely have made good artworks that potentially could be very popular, but….<br />
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And before you think I am too much on the money, well making this a success also means reaching my main goal is to show my art to the world. These two just go parallel!<br />
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So I need to buy myself some time to be able to spot and get the chances I need to make this a success. So the next 12 months will be quiet, I will focus mainly on commissions and small sculptures if I do a fair…..and off course finish the epic Transformer.<br />
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Stay tuned, I keep creating and you help me in a great way to spread the word about my art!<br />
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AND IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE INFLUENTIAL WHO WOULD LIKE MY WORK……SHOW IT AND GET IN TOUCH!Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-91055548615462765112015-03-27T09:06:00.001-07:002015-03-27T09:11:01.905-07:00My self portrait<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Some of you know I am building a very
complicated sculpture out of a sheep skull. I have tried it before, about 3 years ago, but failed and has been bugging me ever since. The concept of a toy like robot transforming out of a former living thing and transforming back into it excites me, but there is more to it!</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Yes, somehow it has a lot of me in it, like me saying ‘fuck you’ to all pretentious art critics who
would very quickly pigeonhole my work as not being art. But quite a lot of art
became only accepted in retrospect, making artists die poor. Art has always
been about doing something new and often that meant shocking. Would it be an
interesting turn if the ‘new’ of today were only shocking to be not shocking,
but actually a very gentle, perhaps childish revolution? This has partly been
done by the CoBrA movement, but in a different way. I would want to mock the
art world in the same way as CoBrA did, but also want to celebrate elements of
our childhood that we seem to love more and more. People like me might often be
seen as not having grown up when I celebrate the things I liked when I was 12,
but I find that a misinterpretation of growing up. I think becoming an adult
only means realizing and acting in line with your responsibilities. For me it
doesn’t mean to become a boring serious grown up and I believe more and more
people think the same way. My work would go further than just mocking
pretentious artists and art lovers, I also want to mirror the growing number of
adults who still embrace childhood joys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-US">Coming back to the art world, there seems
to be too many people that act as a boring and more elitist version of
themselves by using over complicated language and seeing too many serious
messages in art that were never intended. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So there I am being pretentious and
announcing being this new thing, uh uh uh. Probably not, because you are only
‘the new thing’ if you are discovered and for that you need friends in high
places, which I don’t have. There will probably be someone that has those
friends who does something similar. Anyway, so why is this a mocking self-portrait?
In realistic turns it are a few elements that really define me: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">- The skull: I have always loved skulls and
still do, but I also love nature in every form, life and death, probably
because I grew up in an agricultural environment where you would start of life
and the end of it, whether it would be in plants, animals or insects. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">- The Transformer connection, part 1: I
loved this cartoon and its toys when I was young. Mainly because of the hidden
power of something ordinary transforming in something powerful. Isn’t everybody
looking for his or her own ordinary self to transform in something powerful?
Anyway, I never grew out of it. It could have been something else, the love for
caterpillars, but I like the orderly, efficient and predictable ways of robots.
That tells something about me as well; a part of me that wants to be efficient
and orderly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">- The Transformer connection part 2: Besides
my love for cartoons and the transformation of something ordinary into something
powerful, I also mirror the image of a Transformer by looking at the path I
took in life: the many different jobs I have had and which required me to learn
and gain knowledge and skills. I am not saying here that I became powerful, but
it is a transformation every time that felt as an achievement. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">- Never been done: I often don’t like to do
things that have been done before or do things the way everybody else does. It
seems normal as an artist to be like that, but you would be surprised how
conservative the art world is. How much it is about your art CV, your
credentials, your friends in high places and making something that is
marketable. Yes, even a lot of the so ‘shocking and innovative’ art is based on
those elements and to me to be shocking in sex and death for example is just
following the predictable line to be shocking and gain media attention, as in
becoming known and then sell out, but all those artists are generally already
known in a elite circle. …..and here I am making something less predictable,
and in essence more shocking than the art elite does; avoiding the obvious
shocking subjects. Shocking! Yes, because it would bore me to death to make art
around death and I wouldn’t get excited making art about sex, or drugs for that
matter. Therefor, I end up with something that hasn’t been done before. Besides,
if there is one animal that would reflect the opposite of going a different
way, it is a sheep and this sheep skull will get a massive transformation!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">- The challenge: I like a challenge. I have
started making sculptures without any education, courses or whatever. I am
completely self-taught. I deliberately avoided seeing any art for the first 18
months to develop my own style and subjects and till this day I can proudly say
I truly make original art. Perhaps not to everybody’s taste, but it is me, my
style and I love what I make. This all sounds lovely, but it is by far from
easy and so far the biggest challenge in my life. Not to get the skills to make
my sculptures, but to get my work shown and was unpleasantly surprised by the
closed minds in the art world. Yet, I have loved the response of the general
public during fairs who have always topped me up with energy to push on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So this sculpture also reflects the
challenge to become an artist and to make something I like without any ideas
whether someone would buy it. That has always been my base attitude. It might
not be clear when this sculpture is finished, because it will look great and
lot of people would probably love it, but I already spend 100 hours on getting
the hinges in…so it would be very pricey and without rich celebrities knowing
me, no one would have the money to buy it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Who would have thought this would be behind
this sculpture? More Than Meets The Eye! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-10629932335149236522014-12-31T08:00:00.001-08:002014-12-31T08:00:39.814-08:00Building a Transformer out of a skull part 3So the end of 2014 is getting really close and I am thinking of how to fill my time making sculptures. I have always many ideas and said to myself to focus a bit more on the type of sculptures I have, because otherwise people don't know what I am about as an artist. Well, so I have been thinking about old projects and how to do them better or slightly different and come back to me making my first Transformer.<br />
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So this was many years ago and based on Optimus Prime; a robot that transforms out of a lasagne package and back. Two years later I tried to make one out of a real sheep skull, but failed. It started with many pieces of skull:<br />
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Eventually, the project failed on joints that kept breaking away from the bone, but the last few days I spend some time, not too much, with my old first generation Transformers and this idea is getting very tempting again! So 2015 might see a Transformer that transforms out of a real sheep skull, but it is going to be a frustrating journey without doubt!</div>
<br />Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-66222724891076074232014-12-23T22:57:00.001-08:002014-12-23T22:57:04.124-08:00The typical looking back looking forward....Like everybody else at the end of the year, you look back and forward, but I also think about the plans I had for this year and how I have lived up to my plan. Sounds all very systematic and thorough, but it isn't. Generally my plan consists of something like: Try and get 2 exhibitions and do a couple of fairs and create a new paint style or something. This year my plan was even more simple: focus on the types of sculptures I have and anything I get done is bonus. Why? Because the main plan was to prepare for fatherhood and take care of baby and mother when 'it' arrived. So that is why it has all been a bit slow and why I have only done Strummercamp, Kendal Comic Festival and a short exhibition in the Manchester Climbing Centre.<br />
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I am pleased to have progressed on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.403071146430617.88973.168410599896674&type=3">bike part and bone sculptures</a> and to have restored to key pieces like the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Dr.Freakinstyle/photos/pb.168410599896674.-2207520000.1419403550./693457624058633/?type=3&theater">Wile E Coyote 2D sculpture</a> and the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Dr.Freakinstyle/photos/pb.168410599896674.-2207520000.1419403554./693318320739230/?type=3&theater">Spongebob Fossil</a>. So I stuck to my plan of not making new types of sculptures, because otherwise it all gets very random, I think. I think people should be able to easily recognize what I make and I already make so many different types of art: Skulls, Urban Scoundrels, 2D sculptures, drawings, Fictional Fossils, Fridge magnets, Bike parts and bones sculptures and other mixed media sculptures.<br />
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It is difficult to stay on 'just' these types of art, because I have loads of other ideas which can be great, but.... aahhh! People who know me als know I have often been busy making a board game..., I am also making t-shirts, cards, would love to make a calendar and this is al next to the many ideas I have for new types of sculptures. Pfff...the more I think about these, the more I talk about these with others, the more ideas I get.<br />
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So what shall I do for next year? Still not sure, at least I want to make more bone and bike part sculptures and do a few more fairs than last year. For the rest, I might indulge myself to make something new, but all is still more limited while taking care of my only living sculpture I have ever made! We will see, I won't stop that is for sure!<br />
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<br />Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-69673322137010549122014-11-19T08:08:00.001-08:002014-11-19T08:15:57.848-08:00Where do you get your bones from?There are two things I always hear from people when they see my work at fairs, festivals or exhibitions:<br />
They will first mention; 'I have never seen anything like this before' when they move onto the question; 'Where do you get your bones from'? First, I thank you all for the first comment! I consider that to be a great compliment, because I don't like making what other people have made! I want to answer your question in this blog post.<br />
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Unlike some of you that wonder whether I go out to kill innocent animals in the wild, steal dead animals from Abattoirs or simply eat loads of meet to keep the bones while making the local butcher rich….I just collect the bones in the wild when the animal has already died. Big or small I use both, but different sizes means different ways of collection in my case and will explain how I deal with the small animals this time.<br />
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I often go out running or cycling and if you keep an eye out you will see a lot of small animals dead on paths and roads. Most of them, especially in very busy urban areas, will be quite useless because half of the bones are broken by cars driving over them multiple times. Key is to find roadkill that hasn't felt the hard side of our society's favourite mode of transport to often: How flat is it? If it still has an 'natural' shape, does it still have eyes or an intact rectum? If yes, it probably died in the last 24 hours and is probably not hit very often. Small animals like this will loose a lot of hard material like nails, vertebrae and teeth very quickly. So I often collect the whole animal and place it in my garden so I can control its decay and make sure I get most of the bones.<br />
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This summer I find a grey squirrel while out on the bike and took it home. Interesting to see how quickly flies came on it.<br />
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I didn't have time to clean it, but it is ready now to strip it down into bones and I will still expect some flesh turned into 'leather' and lots of fur, but besides that it should be clean of any other soft tissue. Then I will keep it exposed in a tray for the winter to come in a sunny place to prevent algae growing in the bone. If you want white bones, make sure you are quick enough from this stage to separate the bones from the tissue and remove them from the soil, because the soil will give it a brownish colour. But if that happens I can always make a fridge magnet installation on my fridge or like I did two years ago; split them an spread them around the city as an easter hunt if you have a hare or rabbit:</div>
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Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-77568060488134905842014-11-19T05:05:00.002-08:002014-11-19T05:05:30.255-08:00Still alive!I have been an bit busy with other stuff lately, so this blog has gathered some dust over the last few months. I did do some work my art, like showing my work at the <a href="http://www.comicartfestival.com/">Kendal comic book festival</a>, which was really nice! Sold more work than expected and had a lot of nice comments on my work! Unfortunately, I am still busy with non art related stuff and really push it to finish new work and currently busy on an commission which is really started to look good!<br />
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I won't be doing the normal batch of Christmas fairs, because I don't have the time this year, but I am planning new events for next year. If you want to buy something for Christmas, I always have sculptures 'in stock' but I can also squeeze in a request here and there, just send me an Email!<br />
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Stay tuned!Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-23730700904472629142014-09-08T04:07:00.002-07:002014-09-08T04:07:46.551-07:00Bryonosaurus Colepiokite fossilI have finished a new fictional fossil! This time one that is based on a character of my own imagination, which means an animal that has never existed, but it does in my mind and now it is there in real life. So it did exist….because I have a fossil here!<br />
So what is this new character? It is a Bryonosaurus; a Dinosaur with feathers, same size as a pigeon, but it can't really fly. Well, just a little bit, because it uses the hands as a kite to propel itself over land and water. It has big hands with lots of feathers and long skinny arms, shorter legs and big feet and is a carnivorous animal that likes to eat small frogs.<br />
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The name comes from on of the first feathered animals the Bryonosaurus: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byronosaurus">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byronosaurus</a><br />
The second part of its name is based on its skill of kite surfing, mainly the hands that form the kite. 'Colepio' is old Greek for knuckle, because the first remains of this animal was found long time ago, but this specimen is in much better state.<br />
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In this fossil only one of its typical features is clearly visible and those are his long arms. The bones of the hands and feet were a bit lost in time. The skull is very nicely preserved for us.<br />
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My next sculpture is probably going to be a commission and the first of its kind, so stay tuned!Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-71651037021048052692014-09-06T15:39:00.000-07:002014-09-06T15:39:17.533-07:00Exploring the thoughts behind the ideas for my sculpturesI have recently spend some time reflecting on what I have made in the past 5 years. I often concluded that my sculptures are pretty innocent creatures, although freaky, and that My more political thoughts never really properly got in to them, with some exceptions though.<br />
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But if I look at de various types of sculptures I make, I discovered that subconsciously I didn't just like them in a random way. It all was environment and waste focussed, but very very difficult to see. I noticed the urge to create animals. The urge to use natural materials. The need to adapt animals to subconsciously add an evolutionary theme. So for a lot of them I won't be claiming so higher explanation about how I view the world, but I do want to use this post to describe what was going on in my head.<br />
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If I take my first sculptures, the are all animal crossovers and a lot of them with robotic parts. I have always liked that contrast. Not really sure why, but might figure that out at some point. So animals are big. I easily could have used humans, but no. I found that I actually don't rate humans as important for me as other people might do.<br />
I have also used a lot of bones and that has a clear death theme in it, but more the urge to explore the things of real life you normally don't see. I have always had the urge to do the opposite thing. Sometimes to show people alternatives or just to show something different. My scavenger mentality did really help with that as well. I have always picked stuff up as a child and was always thinking it would be a shame to throw things away. Here comes the urge to use waste. For me using waste goes further than just reusing things. I very strongly believe not to use more than I need, even if it doesn't have an effect in the environment. It sometimes is an obsession, but not a very clear one.<br />
With the fictional fossils, I am really diving into the imagination and I found that fossils somehow feel like the best way to prove that characters of my imagination, animals and the like, were alive and not just a sculpture. Looking back, this is a nice mirror for all the fake lives we are creating ourselves online. We use our imagination and try to bring it alive as much as we can.<br />
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So far e quick blurp on this. I might come back with more evolved thoughts...Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-51935908021833395882014-08-25T02:09:00.000-07:002014-08-25T02:09:03.925-07:00Price setting in artThe pricing of an object of art is a very common question. Every artist struggles with it and it wraps around to underlying questions:<br />
1 Do I calculate a price and if yes, how?<br />
2 Would this price be realistic for the market?<br />
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So you think you go about and create a very realistic price for your artwork on which you spend a numerous hours on and think you will definitely will be able to sell it. You start with question number 1:<br />
There are many ways to calculate a the price of a work of art. You grab your costs and add an hourly rate to it. The costs can just be your materials, but some may include everything in it like your costs for having a website. Hourly rates can vary a lot as well and when picking an hourly rate you soon start to wonder what is a fair rate and that is just before you drop into the second question:<br />
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The second question is when you start to research what other similar artworks go for, or more accurately; what other artists ask for their work. So you check artworks of similar size, quality and type. Then you realise that the prices vary a lot, but that their is a rough baseline. But within that base line an artist can still ask 3 times as much as a different artist with very comparable work. The clue partly lies in the word 'ask'. Everybody can ask something, whether they get it is something very different, but that is only part of the explanation.<br />
The other part is a lot more important an completely ruins both questions you have just been researching, because when you were doing that research you did discover artworks actually being sold for 20 times more than the baseline of prices for a similar work of art; quality, size and type. Off course you realise that you might have gone wrong somewhere because it is difficult to asses the quality side of it. But that said, if you make landscape paintings you probably know a bit how to pull of a landscape painting and you wouldn't be judging the creation of a bronze sculpture or an installation.<br />
I think it is safe to assume that there are a lot of artworks sold for a lot more money from one artist where similar quality artwork from another artist could have been bought by spending 10 times less.<br />
How is that possible? Well, I think because the product, art, is very hard to judge by the average buyer. There are only a few people that can assess the quality of various different type of artworks in a good way, for the rest there are loads of people that pretend they do. So a lot of the judgements are more based on opinion, so you as a buyer might as well use your opinion when buying art, but that is where it goes wrong and where you get these freak prices. The prices go wrong in two ways: People often not just buy an artwork because they like it, but also whether their friends, perhaps more art minded friends, will like it as well. So they will follow other peoples opinions, presented as quality assessments, and buy accordingly. The second reason the prices go wrong is that a lot of people will also buy art as an investment, so they will follow where ever the market takes them. Weirdly, with all the difficulty of judging art on quality, for an art investment it isn't important to buy quality as much as you would expect, but whatever grows in price, so more the perceived quality.<br />
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You might have read this and think; what is 'wrong' about those prices, it is just how the market works. Yes, it is, but I have always had difficulty to except people behaving in a certain way not because it is better, but because everybody does that. Same with this. If one celebrity buys an artwork from artist x, then suddenly that artist can slowly push the prices up 10 fold. His quality hasn't gone up 10 fold and there are loads of other artists that would make the same art but didn't come across that celebrity to sell to.<br />
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I often get comments that I should ask more money for my sculptures, because x and y will ask the same price. But the question is always for me; do I sell it at that price? You can also wonder whether a lot higher price would create a better perceived quality, but to pull that off you need to be showing your work at the right places and does are hard to get into without someone influential.<br />
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I just hope one day that I do become a bigger name and that the works I have sold to people that appreciate my work, simply because they like it, will see their sculptures rise in price, but that they will still keep it!<br />
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Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-40546558371232646402014-06-15T04:56:00.001-07:002014-06-15T04:56:11.226-07:00Robots - Mechanical partsI think many of you have already seen quite a lot of robotics entering my sculptures and it started with my Cungo character. Somehow during the creation of that character I kept the very tight lines and angles and thought it would look cool, after that I kept the need to sometimes have a more angular approach, but also deliberately made a robot like this sculpture based on Ratchet and Cliffjumper of the first Transformers cartoon of the 80's:<br />
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Then I started mixing more bones, which I was starting to use after good use of some skulls, in my sculptures but used them in a more mechanical way and that seemed to be the right balance. Bones are basically mechanical and not that different than bike parts in a way, so when I combined them with bike parts it made a lot of sense:</div>
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After this sculpture, 'Ronny Ravage', I started wondering why I actually like robots, mechanical parts, bones etc. I think robots express a lot of power by being very rational, calculating, clear and efficient. An expression of power and control perhaps. I don't consider myself a 100% rational control freak, but I do like things clear, efficient and eventually tidy. </div>
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Somehow the combination of bones and bike parts is the closest I have come to make something 'grim' or dark, because I generally use bright colours, more humour, more joy and these go more in the direction of 'cool'. At the moment I am finishing another bone and bike part sculpture and then I'll go back to perhaps making another skull. Check my fanpage on FB (https://www.facebook.com/Dr.Freakinstyle) for when I have finished that new sculpture!</div>
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<br />Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-11174319740915679442014-05-14T14:45:00.000-07:002014-05-15T00:53:46.583-07:00Dr. Freakinstyle shirtsFor a while I have been thinking about my discovery about the background of the clothing brand Superdry. I started checking them online, because I noticed that they make those very meaningless t-shirts by using random words that we associate with a 'wow' feeling. Can't describe it any better now, but examples of those words will draw the picture:<br />
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Elite<br />
Team<br />
Challenge<br />
Trophy<br />
Super<br />
Epic<br />
Real<br />
Genuine<br />
Class<br />
League<br />
Union<br />
Legend<br />
Crew<br />
Authentic<br />
Master<br />
Race<br />
United<br />
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I have always wondered why people would wear a t-shirt with, for example, 'Texas Challenge Trophy' without having been in Texas, without this trophy existing and even without those three words actually meaning anything, but that could just be me. I am the weird artist after all. So I didn't have to look far to discover that Superdry, which actually make some ok clothes but are ruining it with their 'empty' words, is actually set up by to guys from Cheltenham and has nothing to do with Japan. Ok, there is a small link, this is from their website:' Inspired by a trip to Tokyo in 2003, Superdry fuses design influences from Japanese graphics and vintage Americana, with values of British tailoring. It actually raises lots of questions, but means they definitely don't come from Japan. Those random Japanese writing, could be anything really. Oh, and …..'unique urban clothing with incredible branding'….. Wow! I would love to wear a t-shirt with incredible branding, which basically means that it is all about the name.<br />
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Well, so to put my amazement and frustration about the mindless consuming of brands, I decided to make my own versions:<br />
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Yeah, so these are now on sale, off course I would like to gain some money over the efforts of two boys from Cheltenham selling meaningless crap! I see you might wonder why so much effort to point out a company that makes t-shirts? Who cares? Well, it is more my disappointment and frustration with society that people make so many uninformed choices as mindless sheep. The same thing can be seen around choices about our environment, economy, health etc. Examples are:<br />
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- Environment: always and always getting loads of plastic bags to carry their shopping, while they could have easily have taken their own bags.<br />
- Economy: always thinking that you get a mobile for 'free' when taking a contract and still after ever finished contract taking a new one to get a new 'free' mobile phone.<br />
- Health: thinking that only fat makes you fat and then buying 'light' products thinking that these engineered 'foods' would help them loose weight, it actually only fills the pockets of an industry that has made you fat in the first place, with some self responsibility off course.<br />
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But I also have these prints available, some in a distance based on the same idea, but won't bore you with that now:<br />
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<br />Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-43788441844672017882014-04-22T13:06:00.001-07:002014-04-22T13:06:34.523-07:00GoGo the originalI have probably written more often about my GoGo bird, a crossover between Roadrunner and the extinct Dodo. This bird has popped up in my work every now and then in the last 4 years. It has popped up again, because the original sculpture based on this idea now finally has the base it needed. Four years ago, when I just was getting comfortable with this random idea to make sculptures, I create the first GoGo bird. Initially a test version with Fimo clay, which was the first clay I bought after being fed up with being unemployed. Then I decided to create it in epoxy clay so it would be more solid and this creation gave me the first feeling of; 'This is getting somewhere'!<br />
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Now for years later I have added the base to this sculpture that has laid the foundations the faith in myself as a sculptor.<br />
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After this sculpture I create more characters as crossovers and decided to clone them by creating a mould and casting them in resin. At the same time I was staring for 6 months at two skulls in my garden picked up during mountain biking and decided to use my style on them myself.<br />
Initially, these two types of sculptures were quite separate and ever since I have been trying to mix them and in that process the GoGo has reappeared several times:<br />
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As a 'GoGo' skull:<br />
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GoGo commissioned birds:</div>
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Last year adding to the story by adding a new predator in a fossilised scene:</div>
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I can't predict where this GoGo bird is taking me, but it was very nice to finally see a key piece getting the honour it needed by adding the base!</div>
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<br />Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-27846624605363353732014-03-17T02:38:00.003-07:002014-03-17T02:38:56.539-07:00Oeps, I did it again!I have been on a holiday for a few weeks, squeezing out the last few pennies on a holiday I'll probably won't make in the next decade. I went to those typical lovely tropical beaches with white sand and clear blue sea. I went to Thailand and visited some Islands in the south, deliberately not those famous tourist-run-over-alcohol-partying islands, no I went to some low profile islands with amazing beaches just for yourself. Off course I was most of the time disconnected from all the sculptures I wanted to make, but occasionally got some new ideas. However, this blogpost is mainly about what I saw there, with one item in particular.<br />
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I think most of you know my <a href="http://www.drfreakinstyle.com/urbanscoundrels.html">Urban Scoundrel</a> called Traffic Cone Terrorist, which is based on the Hermit crab. Well, I saw loads and loads of these on the beaches of the islands I went to! They keep entertain me because they have such comical character. Every time I came close they would hide in their stolen shells hoping I wouldn't see them, often accompanied with the sound of a shell clicking on the surface. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ-ytt67zIA">Here is a video</a> I took of one on our table.<br />
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Off course I found all kinds of shells, a knife and loads of other stuff, because that is how I am; I find stuff. Most of it I left in Thailand or gave away. I did saw two Dolphin skulls at the places I have been:<br />
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On the same island I found a vertebra of a Dolphin as well:<br />
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I didn't take it how to avoid any inconvenient Thai officials, besides, I already have bunch of these!<br />
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Some of you know I have been hope to get a Monkey skull for some time and I managed to find one. So initially I was very excited for 30 seconds and then realised it is illegal to just bring a Monkey skull into the UK, with the risk, although small risk, of getting caught in Thailand. Unfortunately I didn't bring it back to the UK and left it. One of the main reasons was that I would really like to exhibit it as well after I would have used it for a sculpture, but without any documents this would be a bit tricky. They don't go easy on these things. I am not too bothered with the illegal side of it, because I know I didn't take it by killing an endangered specimen and just having a skull like this in my house isn't enough for me anymore.<br />
Yes, if anyone can donate a Monkey skull brought in the UK with the appropriate documents… I am still your man!<br />
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Anyway, I have proven again that I am able to find special bones and skulls in places completely new to me, but it might also be down to pure luck after also finding a Dolphin in the Algarve last year.Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-30860778402630655322014-02-03T13:39:00.001-08:002014-02-03T13:39:04.847-08:00Cobra sculpturesAt the start of the year I decided to create a new type of sculpture and decided to get inspired by the artists who were part of CoBrA. CoBrA was an art movement in the '40 and the name is a compilation of the cities where the leaders of this movement came from; Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam.<br />
The artist weren't very fond of the very intellectual art and the way other artists made their art too academic, so in contrast the preferred the abstract and spontaneous creation.<br />
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<i>Both paintings by Karel Appel</i></div>
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So why pick this to be inspired by?<br />
Well, first of all, I like quite a lot of the paintings. The use of bright colours is probably one of the reasons why I like them. Also, they were inspired by child like drawings and I like to create cartoon characters, both very child influenced.<br />
Third reason is that these, mostly paintings, are abstract and I haven't done much abstract work and I somehow really want to make something more abstract.<br />
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First step was for me to start to making drawings of my own CoBrA-style and I picked these two as the best to base a sculpture on:<br />
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I made these drawings with vague idea of CoBrA in my head, so they are very different still. I have now started creating one of the two as a sculpture and already it moved away from the initial idea! The result will be fine, but realised my starting point was wrong. The sculpture coming out of it will look cool, though. This is a work-in-progress picture of today's result:</div>
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Not a great picture, but hopefully I can post the result soon on my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Dr.Freakinstyle">fanpage on Facebook</a>!</div>
<br />Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-83058863836342351462014-01-23T08:26:00.000-08:002014-01-23T08:26:19.725-08:00Sculptures vs paintingsI have recently been jumping around from sculpture to drawing/painting and back to use drawings to develop my ideas for new sculptures. I keep thinking about which is the most interesting medium to create things in and I think this just depends. In my case I just have a preference for sculptures in general, but it is always very tempting to create 2 dimensional artwork. For me it feels like making sculptures is the real thing and 2 dimensional artwork is recording the 3-dimensional artwork. Just like paintings were made to show what happened, what someone looked like (portrait), etc. Or photos to record important moments in our lives.<br />
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Even abstract paintings are a 'recorded' expression of something that exists, but nobody has every seen it in that way.<br />
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Off course it is easy to argue about the right paintings have in the art world and that it is just as real as sculptures, but for me it feels different. Nevertheless, I will keep making both because some things just work better on paper or canvas.<br />
There is a benefit on having 2-dimensional 'recording' media; it is easier to get more events, ideas or feelings in your house by choosing a less space demanding form. Sculptures just take in more room.<br />
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Oh, by the way, I have changed the domain of my website into <a href="http://www.drfreakinstyle.com/">www.drfreakinstyle.com</a>. The old address will stay available for now and I still need to change all the addresses on all my social media…...<br />
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<br />Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-24584301392411301282013-12-18T10:12:00.001-08:002013-12-18T10:14:08.427-08:00Two great exhibitions: Chapman brothers & Grayson PerryTwo of my favourite artists are having an exhibition at the moment!<br />
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The first one is an exhibition of work from Grayson Perry. A few years back he made tapestries to describe differences between the classes in the UK and his research was made into a documentary. A documentary about the classes would have been interesting by itself for me not being British, but adding the work of Grayson Perry made it extra cool! I love his work in which he uses old traditional media to express modern things, mainly to describe different people. You can see his work in <a href="http://www.manchestergalleries.org/whats-on/exhibitions/index.php?itemID=109">Manchester Art Gallery</a> till 2nd of February.<br />
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The second exhibition is of artwork from the Chapman brothers. They have created some amazing scenes of small figures and they are quite grim!<br />
This exhibition is held in <a href="http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/jake-and-dinos-chapman-come-and-see">the Serpentine Gallery</a> in London. Bit far away for me, but would otherwise have definitely be planning to go there!<br />
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So far so good, but this is where it stops with my knowledge of my audience. I can't tell by reading someone's age, I seem to have a massive range and can't rule out any age group. I also can't tell by what people wear. There are lots of people that like different and weird stuff, but don't dress like that. When I think about it, this applies to me as well!<br />
What I often hear people saying is that they know someone that would really like my sculptures. Yes, I have noticed that my work ticks a lot of boxes for some people and they just spend quite some time staring at my stall. So my work isn't mainstream or appealing to everybody.<br />
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Last weekend I had a stall at a comic book festival in Leeds; Thought Bubble. I thought this crowd would love my Urban Scoundrels for their strong cartoon/comic elements. I even presented them with a speech bubble to explain their characters. Surprisingly, people were less enthusiastic than at other 'normal' fairs. Got it all wrong again.<br />
I also did an experiment, like proper doctors are supposed to do, by analysing the response to my table from people with skull prints on their clothes or accessories. So I counted the amount of people that had a skull somewhere on their clothes and counted the proportion of people that would stop walking and take a look at my table. Even if it was for 5 seconds. Yes, I had about 5 real skulls on the table in plain sight. I counted about 12 and only 2 stopped at my table and they were a couple. The rest just ignored what I had and passed. They did briefly look, but kept walking. So, this trend of skulls in fashion has nothing to do with loving skulls….it is just fashion and no indicator that this person likes skulls.<br />
So again peoples clothes don't tell much about them. Conclusion: don't judge a book by its cover!<br />
<br />Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-87217441147166980792013-11-13T12:56:00.002-08:002013-11-13T12:56:57.376-08:00Prohibition skull: 'What drives you?'I recently finished another skull and this time back at decorating real skulls. I got a ewe skull, probably Swaledale breed, and wanted to create something around the theme of individuality and law.<br />
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I have often gone about the difficulty in being different, behaving different and thinking different among big groups of people. Generally, big groups want you to act in the same way as the rest of the group. Unless, you gain status. We have things to make sure people behave in a predictable and desirable way, one of those things is the law.<br />
The law can prevent an individual of doing what it wants to do and can go against their individual development or even potential. In this case I used the style and them of the American prohibition era as a symbol for this individualism and law. Off course I could have chosen something different, but as my main goal is to create something cool and visual pleasing, I choose this era that has those cool gangster elements.<br />
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As it was around the Day of the Dead, I used a paint style, although not too obvious, Mexicans often use for celebrating the Mexican Day of the Dead or Dias de los Muertos.<br />
To make it all visual more cool, I reshaped the front of the skull a bit into the front of a car around that time and because in the 50's the started to use cars from that era to create Hot Rods, I decided to paint flames on it. OK, in this case one could argue I used the symbol of a Hot Rod to further emphasise the individualism, but no, this is a coincidence.<br />
One of the cooler elements of that time is that gangster would often 'hang' on the side of the car with their Tommy guns ready for action, or to escape quickly. I wanted to create the same effect by letting this skeleton gangster hang out of the eye socket with his Tommy gun. The skeleton referring to the Day of the Dead.<br />
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So the title is: 'What drives you'? Mainly referring to the car and the individualism of the viewer and asking them the question, but also for them wondering what is holding them back.<br />
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So here it is:<br />
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<br />Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-42953952265245341792013-10-15T00:16:00.002-07:002013-10-15T00:16:17.355-07:00Autumn and Winter artI think I subconsciously getting into a winter mode. I recently wanted to make some new decorated skulls, partly in time to show around The Day of the Dead celebrations, but I think also because it feels like the right time of the year to work with 'death'. So I already finished 3 skulls and I am working on another real sheep skull with horns, probably a Swaledale breed ewe.<br />
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But I am also tempted to do some street work as well. For me that fits with the time of the year because I like grim corners for it. Either nature taking over urban objects, which is often in abandoned places or grim corners in general. But Christmas will be taking a lot of my time till January, so I think the effect of this mode of thinking will be next year. It gives me time to think about what to do. I have already got some ideas and will try to make them simple so I that I am able to show them before the new year. Fingers crossed!Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-34428042591852877952013-10-03T01:54:00.001-07:002013-10-03T01:54:25.593-07:00Day of the Dead - Dia de los MuertosIt is that time of the year again where the days are getting darker, wetter and colder and we are getting near Halloween AND the Day of the Dead or Dia de los Muertos. If you know my art, you can imagine that those days have a strong connection with my work, but not just because I decorated real animal skulls or use bones. I have a stronger connection with Dia de los Muertos than Halloween, because I love the vibrant colours and the general style of the celebrations.<br />
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I have been wanting to make one or two skulls in this style again for a year. I made two skulls inspired by the traditional Sugar Skulls, but wanted to make some again this year. You may have come across some the vibrant colours and detailed drawings on this blog or my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Dr.Freakinstyle">Facebook fanpage</a>:<br />
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So I have been used those drawings (left) on a real Fallow Deer skull (right), but I wanted to have a base that looked more like a human skull to get closer to the Sugar Skull feeling and decided to make one of my own. I didn't want to make a realistic human skull, because those are everywhere and I could just have bought a skull replica from Ebay. No, I wanted the skull to be different, manlike and in an urban cartoon style. So I sculpted a master which I cloned and painted. </div>
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Some Sugar Skull art have the coolest elements added to the skull, making the skull feeling like a globe on which all kinds of stuff is happening. So I set about making one with the above type of paint style and one painted more traditionally, but with added elements on the skull:</div>
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This one has butterflies on the skull made from plastic from found drinking bottles. Two butterflies are crushed by two piles of money handled by the skeleton.</div>
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Dr. Freakinstylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08855882174993986438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1616896899829586031.post-70787935462806900332013-09-21T13:27:00.002-07:002013-09-21T13:27:51.071-07:00Christmas fairsThis week I received the first batch of Christmas cards and I will be showing them in Wilmslow next weekend! Hopefully they are better than the ones I had last year, which were last minute things and weren't linked enough with Christmas.<br />
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I am also making key rings and the first prototypes are finished. The definite versions will have proper rings attached:<br />
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