1:12th scale mouse

 

1:12th skull

Skull made using plaster. 

Many years ago I visited the Capuchin crypt, in Rome, it has a lot of skulls in it. 

 

1:12th scale cat lanterns

Copies of real vintage ones. 

These were made using Japanese grace clay mixed with black watercolour and the eyes and mouth were printed and glued on in the interior. They are made as two halves and glued together with Japanese grace clay and water mixed to a single cream consistency. 

1:12th scale Devil masks

When I was making these I used antique papier mache ones to copy, at the time I thought not much of it, except another item for the Halloween section of the shop. I didn't quite know what to do with them, but I did make a ball toss with one of them, no picture. I remember thinking four of them placed like this made a nice brooch, I had to stop watching any pro Trump channels that talked about satanic elements.  I was just thinking of products for Halloween, honestly.  That weren't Made in China etc. I was working hard here, doing my bit to save us from whatever it is.  I did hear Trump say too much is made in china, and I thought yes, I know! I've got a full on sweatshop going on here trying to stop whatever is happening, from happening, without being "political"

 

I only have two drawings left, from that Portaits book by Steve McCurry, and this is another one of them, again I thought I'd traced it. My drawing of him looks better when his face isn't next to it, hes from Timbuktu and if you asked me to point that out on a map I couldn't do it. 

Definitely looks better alone. I used to enjoy doing shading when drawing. 

Blah de blah. 

This is one of the few drawings I've kept, I like it a lot.  I did this in the late 2000s, from the book Portraits by Steve McCurry, I had a copy of it back in the early 2000s, this one I have now is a new copy, as the other one went to a charity shop years ago.  It's not a great likeness of the subject.  There was a reason I drew it as well and I can't remember exactly why, but I gave up drawing not long after. 

 I was surprised when I found out how small she was compared to my drawing. For years I've had this portrait in a small portfolio and thought I'd traced it. As you can see, not a great likeness. 

I had this book, definitely, around 2005 because I told someone they looked like someone in it, and they called string, lines, because English was their second language, we worked together.  They wanted to know where the lines were and it took me awhile to understand what they were talking about.

The good news is, for me anyway, is I'm using milliput clay again, I no longer have this unbelievable guilt about micro particles going down the sink. 

More 1:12th scale eyes garland and necklace

I didn't like the eye garland I made for the voodoo shelf, in that one, I glued paper irises on to white fimo balls. These ones I made using the finished "iris" piece, as per the cat eye in the previous post. The iris piece is a sliver of the baked cane, with a dot of uv resin on it, which I then stuck on to a ball of white fimo and rolled it a bit, I think, I can't really remember exactly. If it wasn't that way, I rolled balls of white fimo and then cut a bit off and stuck the iris on, but I think it was the other way. The greatest thing I ever bought was a set of drill bits, Blackspur Micro ones, I can't see the ones I bought, though the smallest one was 0.3 mm. I can't believe I used to sit in a room for years making all of this stuff, recently, I feel like I've wasted a lot of my life.

 

The beads are vintage Venetian seed beads, the smallest size which I think was size 18, and the white beads in that size are very rare, last I looked for them, they make great pearl necklaces, I saw someone else using them for that. I'm just adding that for the maddest miniaturists. 

Very inspired by the game Monkey Island for the above, there was a head with an eye necklace in that, called The head of the navigator. I was a big fan of Monkey Island.