Famous Monsters of Filmland

After many hours of sculpting these bastards, I mean I can't imagine any of them having been born under wedlock, they are finished! I meant to take progress pictures but there was no step that seemed photo-ready or pretty enough. I know, I know, that progress pictures aren't meant to be pretty. I will take progress pictures on the next set! I'm going to do several sets of these in different paint styles.

Thanks for showing up!
Cammi

Things are becoming monstrous!!!

Oh no! It's been a month since updating!!! What has been going on you guys?! Who dropped the ball?  I am not about to take any blame for not updating my blog. It's your fault. Oh, what?! Now I'm the bad guy?!! Don't look at me like that. I'm always the bad guy. Ok, enough guilt tripping. I'm sorry. 

Now here is what has been going on. A couple years ago I made these dolls:

I had so much fun making them that I decided to remake them. I sculpted the new ones, molded them, cast them, put magnets in them, and have painted all but Frankenstein's Monster. So this blog post is a heads up to let you know, THEY'RE COMING...

Forgive me,
Cammi

Plush Beginnings (Part 3)

After learning to sculpt at make-up effects school 6 years ago, I thought it would be interesting to blend sculpture with my plush dolls. These are the result:

Someone looks guilty...

Oh deer!

For such a goofy person, I sure make a lot of sad looking things. It's really fun to explore different materials and processes. Right now, my favorite thing has to be collaborating with Max, we come up with things I never would have thought of alone! I LOVE PROJECTS!!!!!!!!!!

Namaste?
Cammi

Plush Beginnings! (part 2)

 I was looking through some old files and found close-ups of these monsters that I hadn't seen in years! Some of the pictures are not of the best quality.

Well, all my photographs, even to this day, are not of the best quality, but most of these ones are pixelated, blurry, destroyed by flash and have all around horrible lighting. But there is something neat about documenting this.

After not having seen these first creatures in almost 10 years, it's sort of fun to look at what I was doing.

I started selling a couple of these online through livejournal.com craft communities and it picked up as my skills got better and I learned things like how to actually hide seams!

Ok, bye!
Cammi

Plush Beginnings! (part 1)

I started making plush monsters way back in 2003, b.f. (before facebook). This is one of the first ones I made for my then newborn niece, Ramona:

And of course Ramona has a standing deal with me consisting of unlimited free monsters/creatures for life.

Once I started making these first crudely-made plush monsters I couldn't stop. Pretty soon I had made a gaggle of these things, for no apparent reason. Here is an old group photo of the pioneers:

The great thing about them was that I could bring my fabric and sewing supplies anywhere and unlike a painting or sculpture, it wasn't such a messy thing to be doing.

Stay tuned!
Cammi

The Artist and the Tree Dweller

After we put one of our monsters in a great habitat it can be difficult to know what's real and what's not. It's like right after waking up from dreaming about your rear tires being chocolate cake and thinking, "Damnit! I'm late for work and my tires are cake!!"

We told him that he began as a quick little drawing, right when this picture was taken:

Sincerely,
Cammi

Stifling Sentimentality

I think there's a part of me that has to indulge my sentimental side a little bit in the fear that stifling it completely would cause it to take over. I'm terrified of becoming the person that cries when they see baby shoes. So, one way to reconcile this is to allow myself to anthropomorphize the things that Max and I make.

We just sold the first thing we made as "Gravlax?" He is going to a great home and I'm really happy that he knows he's wanted now. The strange thing to me is that I can't possibly think of him as an "it." He is not a product or a manufactured item. When I was going through our etsy page I saw his picture with the words SOLD OUT across the top and thought it was really funny. He is such a sell out.

Goodbye and good luck, Mr. Gravlax! (We accidentally named him)

You can call me crazy now. I know you're thinking it!!!
I love you!
Cammi