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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Teabox inspired miniatures #2

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This is the second part of the Teabox-mini series. I choose Ginger and Lemon by teekanne. The picture contains an apple and some lemongrass (i think it is lemongrass), and tried to copy without modification. Somehow the lemon was burnt, so I had to correct the color. I might change it later too, but it turned out quite cute I think :)



Sunday, January 12, 2014

Nachos

I have some unposted stuff from earlier, like this dish of nachos. Pretty simple, but messed it up with the sour cream. The liquid mixture was too thin, and poured everywhere in the oven... I'll keep this one for myself, but ready to remake it!

I used pre-baked chips. Simply took a sheet of light ecru clay, and brushed on soft pastels. Then placed it on some sandpaper, and poked it with a toothbrush and a ball of tin foil, until it got some texture. At the end, I added a bit of black pastels, just like the real thing has as tiny black spots. Cut into triangles, bake, nachos is ready :)
For meat, I used chopped up brownish clay with liquid fimo and pastels. Tomato is from the tomato cane leftover, to minimize the waste. It's not easily visible, but looks good!

No more writing, let the pictures talk for me! (I managed to recover my camera, finally! No professional around yet, but a lot better photos came out of it.)

Size comparison
Nachos


Saturday, January 11, 2014

Grapes, second time

As I mentioned in my Grapes post, I was doing grapes in the past few days. Well, not just grapes, but it took most of my days. I had 177 bunches of grape at the end, in various colors, which ended up as 47 single bunches and 13 trays of grape. I didn't count them by colors, because... what for? :D

Baked in the tray, I used it as a mold
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Lots!
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Single grapes
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Close up view
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My giant bucket full of grapes :)
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Trays are the work of Gábor Csepreghy!
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Trays are the work of Gábor Csepreghy!
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Size comparison
Trays are the work of Gábor Csepreghy!
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It was really fun to make them, and hope that I can make more and still better in the future. I have a lot of pictures about them, check them out, and feel free to comment, criticize, or whatever you have in mind :)


Friday, January 10, 2014

Teabox inspired miniatures #1

Recently I bought a lot of kind of tea. They have really nice package, so I said myself, why not make a miniature of that scene?

The first one is Winter Time by Teekanne. This has the most complex decoration of them all, and it has an apple in it, so I chose this one, I needed some practice in apple tones. This is far the best of my apples, I think!

But I still have problems with photography. Now I get, why is that a unique profession. I have an old and lame camera, and no talent for catching the light. I said light? Oh, it's winter time after all, no light at all, at least here. Now I see, that this scene fits in multiple ways... ;)

Winter time (1/12)
Not a very clean photo, but the best one of the apple, so decided to show you

This piece is made in 1/12 scale, but recreated it, without measure for the winner of the Kacatgyár's blog-opening contest. I hope the winner likes it! :)


Grapes

I'm doing grapes! Yep. Not the first time, but I found a new, better, and a bit faster technique to produce tons of grapes. There will be a few colors... :)


Whoa, a lot!

These colors are all translucent, I'm very excited about them, because I only tried a little pinch of each color (except blue which I had used before, and it's a normal, translucent blue Cernit).
There are... Hmmm... At least a few thousand of them in this tray. Took me 2 days approx., while watching stupid series... this is the brainless part of the creation :P

Here are some of my previous grapes. Not the most realistic, but I plan to do better, and hopefully, I can make the next pack better!


1:18 scale, 17x 22mm. Trays are the work of Gábor Csepreghy!

First one ready in background, and some more in production.

1:12, glazed piece, unique until now. (22x33mm)
It feels soooooo huge after 1:18!
Trays are the work of Gábor Csepreghy!
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Scrap!

Too bad, I became lazy again... But just temporarily! In the past few days, I was sorting out my clay boxes. I kept them all messed up in metal boxes, you know, the ones that contain cookies or chocolate- double pleasure! I always buy chocolate and cookies with metal boxes, whenever possible :)

I've got a bunch of scrap clay... Really, a whole big box is full of them, messed up, some of them dirty, or checked out by my Supervisor which is never so good... So what should I do with them?
Yesterday, I managed to sort them by colour. I got a bunch of metal pencilcases, tobacco boxes and stuff like that from friends, and some of them bought myself earlier. I still need more!
But the huge box of dirty scrap is still around... I don't want to toss it into rubbish (It's waaay too expensive stuff to waste like that!) so I'm looking for ideas all over the internet.

Some said, easy-painted stuff could be made out of it, handles for tools (I don't really feel that necessary for myself) or (as usual) the ugly inside technique. Unfortunately, I have known them all, but still I have too much leftover.

What do you think? Do you have any ideas what to make out of  over a kg of dirty-furry clay?

I managed to sort them out somehow like this

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Jack'o'lantern on a tree trunk

I had a commission about this piece. The composition is just improvised, because I got the request for the axe in the last minute, so I only had time for a matchstick-handle (also, because the buyer wants to make a woodcrafted one for it). Quite cute I think :)

It's made in 1:18 scale!

I'd rather not write more of them, because I'm working on some series now- I'm starting a new, teabox-inspired series next week, so stay tuned!