Cosmic Creatures - They Need You

     Every now and then I like to sculpt things. I had some gold and silver metallic Sculpty sitting around for years and the color reminded me of these 2 inch plastic figures I used to get out of Shreddies cereal (made by Nabisco......which used to be National Biscuit Company)  in the seventies. So I thought of making some blobby creatures with my minimal skill level. Six is all I got done. They sat hidden away for a couple years until I made a box package to put them in.

 

     This is a box package I made for them that I designed and silk screened myself in 2008. Each box contains one original figure and a whole set of six 'trading' cards of all the Cosmic Creatures with their powers. There are six of these packages that each have one original sculpted figure. There are no reproductions. I have 3 out of the 6 to sell. Or I could sell you a empty box or I could sell you a set of the trading cards because I printed a lot more of those. 

    

  

Zethra - A tree spirit with command of air.

Gana - Can transform to liquid anything

Datoid - Can speak to all inanimate objects

One - He is the One - $150 with box and cards

Komodan - A time master - $100 with box and cards - 

This one is slightly damaged which I fixed. 

Enata - Whips up black holes - $150 with box and cards

I felted da Dzama monsterd scareded me!

     I was a craft sale last week and there was an elderly couple that were both making felted animals of all shapes and sizes. I fell in love with this sasquatch guy and just had to have'm. Then later when I saw their business card I realized that they were the parents of the famed Winnipeg artist Marcel Dzama, whom I've been a fan of since he started to make art at the University of Manitoba. (I'm sure he was making art before that). So I told them about the story how I had an opportunity to get a work of his for really cheap at the beginning of his career from a gallery art fundraiser but then at the last moment opted to get a fabric sewn alien robot instead from another artist, and now I am getting a fabric creature from them. The Marcel Dzama art would have been worth a small fortune right now. I guess I was telling them that I really like these artistic one of a kind figures. Oh, and they do commissions. Jeanette & Maurice.  zama48@shaw.ca 

 

     Last year there was a craft sale right across from my studio and I saw this little guy and fell in love with it. (I'm a grown man for goodness sakes!) It also happens to be felted wool. Made by a gal named Meg at iHeartArts, not sure if she is still around anymore. He sits amongst the pens and pencils in a wide-mouthed frog container by my computer.

TRIPHANTS

These two DAS Pronto clay figures were made a long long time ago. That's no excuse really as I was still an adult and should know better. Sorry to say that my skills have not improved at all since as you will see later when I post my fimo-sculpty Cosmic Creatures . I do love these guys though. I call them Triphants, as they are kinda horsey-elephant animals with 3 legs. The clay was terrible to work with I found, especially if parts of your model had to hold any weight while it was drying. A skeleton of some kind would have been the way to go, but since I had no idea what I was going to sculpt, there was no way to put one in after. The left one is from 1981 and stands about 6 inches tall. The right one is from 1988 and served as a sentinel in a cosmic doorway between two worlds of another sculptural piece of that time.  

Below we have a recent ink drawing I did of Anguirus.

   

ARRUK ON FLAPJACKS

The Four Armed Terror  by Scott Redding  -  8.5 x 11 injet print

I attended the Central Canada Comic Con here in Winnipeg this past weekend. I met a lot of great artists and ended up with a couple of fun pieces of artwork. 

The Four Armed Terror I just found out is from a story in Jimmy Olsen #137 illustrated by Jack Kirby. I gotta look for this one. Arruk!

The printing process for the Flapjack Monster is one I had never heard of before. It was big in Japan for the past 25 years but has dwindled and found a new home in the DIY folks here. It's called Gocco and is a cross between screen printing and rubber stamping. Great for small prints and cards I gather. Oh and the artist is no other than one half of Grumble Toys who make cute vinyl monsters. Check out the link below. 

  

Flapjack Monster by Chris Bryan - 8.5 x 11 Gocco print -  No.8 of 24