Using 4x4x2 inch craft or hobby boxes for mini space diorama housings. Surfaces are accreted layers of Golden's Crackle Paste, Clear Granular Gel, Glass Bead Gel, Clear Tar Gel and assorted Iridescent Acrylic Colors. "Skies" are mostly Golden's Micaceous Iron Oxide acrylic gel. The rounded forms at lower right are random gobs of Great Stuff Gap & Crack Filler insulation foam that I am transforming into scale sized boulders.
What's underneath the surface of the planet? More of the planet I guess. Figured they'd look stupid hanging there with plain bottoms so I stretched the sculpted acrylic terrain onto the bottoms. It's like the other side of the planet even, and I made sure all stand evenly so they could also be placed on a shelf or tabletop.
This one sort of made itself. Just happened to have the toy forms out on the table and was like, wait a minute ... A dinosaur, with spacemen. Can do, and this specimens is already promised to a very enthusiastic buyer who called "Baggsies" on it first. Others are in production and I have plenty of dinosaurs & spacemen both. Lots of acrylics. More boxes incoming.
Keeping the backs bare for the time being. A hanger tab or hook would go got there so it can be displayed on a wall, and you have to enforce a front/back dynamic for that. But they may be painted black at some point, not there yet.
The tree needs to be fixed to the ground and I'm not sure if those are the right spacemen yet. I'd like the dinosaur to seem like it's towering over them, peering through the branches. I'd also like to have the toy pieces fixed to the ground in some way that allows the owner/viewer to remove them for other adventures, then place them right back where they were until next time. It becomes a playset.
"What's underneath the surface of a planet? More of the planet."
Sat back and laughed. Could not have plotted out the combination better, and just from writing this blog I've decided those Golden Astronauts may have to stay. The allosaurus is contemporary manufacture and so is the tree.
Likely subconscious source of inspiration: Weird War Tales #36, from my favorite comic book series. Knew I'd seen something like it before, and then again there's the whole history of pulp science fiction artwork's juxtaposition of prehistoric creatures against advanced beings. Already making another one and will go back through my comic book covers & pulp scifi artwork discs for other cool ideas. Post-post modernism.
No comments:
Post a Comment