I really wish that I could tell you some powerful story of what inspires me to make a piece. But the simple truth is that with all of these pieces I was basically trying to embellish simple shapes differently.
Everything can be mostly made out of basic shapes. You art majors already have this drilled in your heads, but us self-taught artists need to remind ourselves of this and start training our eye to look for the shapes.
How you connect the shapes, how you put them together to form a seamless piece, that is the secret, and it is different in every art form. It takes lots and lots of practice. Below you have two unfinished egg shapes, one of which is smaller and they are joined together at the unfinished areas to create a body. I had recently learned to make the sausage shapes more rapidly so I had them at hand.
I joined them at the center back. Then I was inspired to do a mummy shape. Maybe because it is the season?
Can you break this guy into shapes too? He is a character right?
Even with the simplest of shapes, you change up the color, and then you have an endless variety. These little guys are my answer to my stained glass-felt obsession in 3D form. I hope to have a kit to make them available in my store within the next two days. They are perfect to make for beginners, because they can be any shape, have any amount of eyes and you get to play with blocks of color. (Or maybe that is just my favorite part?)
All the little creatures shown here today are available in my store, should you wish to take them home.
these are really cute and so beautiful! I love the multicoloured one at the bottom
ReplyDeleteThanks Wendy! The Stained glass monsters are really super fun to make and easy I have taught several beginners how to make them in the past week so they are easy too. :)
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