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Hello everyone!

I’m so sorry I’m (very) late (again) with a post, I promise I’ve been superbusy, but I’m still trying to finding a good balance between social media marketing and actually producing content (if anybody has good tips on that, I would LOVE to hear them).

So, let me tell you a little bit about this piece: As I’ve already mentioned, I’m trying to make a line of cast figures to sell in my etsy shop to balance out the... more exclusive items there. I LOVE creating one of a kind pieces but they are a lot of work and in consequence turn out to be a little pricey. So to balance that out I’m creating a few pieces that I can cast in small editions. I’m trying to still make them feel really special and delicate and to invest a lot of time and details to make them look awesome. For my material of choice I went for brass. I would LOVE to have cast in gold or silver, the company I’m working with even had rose gold up as an offer, but unfortunately my seller’s license doesn’t cover precious metals. Don’t get me wrong, I really love the finished look of the brass too, but I would have liked having the option. But I ramble.

To kick it off I made an octopus. Fast and foremost, because it went wild at tumblr, but I also really like working on them (I get about every second one of them right when I try them, which is probably a good indicator that I need to work on them a little harder). If you couldn’t tell by know, I’m a sucker for details. And the suckers of these baby... I think I took and hour or so just placing them. They look really good on the end result (Not all the way through on this one because it was messed up a bit) but they were a pain in the behind to make. Absolutely worth it though.

And this bad boy is the prototype. The only thing that bothers me is that there’s residue from the casting as my positive had too much undercut, but I will hopefully fix this in the second prototype. This led to a tentacle being cut off a little too short (the right front one has a curlicue in the very tip) and there’s a bit of residue from the clay(?) withe which the liver of sulfur that I used for staining doesn’t react well with and hence leaves white stains. It only happens over time so you can’t see it well in the pictures but it still sucks.

The sculpt came out fairly big, it’s 3.5 by 4 cm which makes it more of a keychain then a necklace. Although I did carve out the backside it’s fairly heavy and hence not that good for wearing. I plan on only getting 5 to see how well you will like them and then maybe order more if you do. I will also be making a smaller version that can actually be worn as a necklace without ruining your back and/or your posture.

For more pictures please visit my tumblr .

and if you want to see what else I’ve been up to, follow me on my instagram

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Hello everyone!

I’m so sorry I’m (very) late (again) with a post, I promise I’ve been superbusy, but I’m still trying to finding a good balance between social media marketing and actually producing content (if anybody has good tips on that, I would LOVE to hear them).

So, let me tell you a little bit about this piece: As I’ve already mentioned, I’m trying to make a line of cast figures to sell in my etsy shop to balance out the... more exclusive items there. I LOVE creating one of a kind pieces but they are a lot of work and in consequence turn out to be a little pricey. So to balance that out I’m creating a few pieces that I can cast in small editions. I’m trying to still make them feel really special and delicate and to invest a lot of time and details to make them look awesome. For my material of choice I went for brass. I would LOVE to have cast in gold or silver, the company I’m working with even had rose gold up as an offer, but unfortunately my seller’s license doesn’t cover precious metals. Don’t get me wrong, I really love the finished look of the brass too, but I would have liked having the option. But I ramble.

To kick it off I made an octopus. Fast and foremost, because it went wild at tumblr, but I also really like working on them (I get about every second one of them right when I try them, which is probably a good indicator that I need to work on them a little harder). If you couldn’t tell by know, I’m a sucker for details. And the suckers of these baby... I think I took and hour or so just placing them. They look really good on the end result (Not all the way through on this one because it was messed up a bit) but they were a pain in the behind to make. Absolutely worth it though.

And this bad boy is the prototype. The only thing that bothers me is that there’s residue from the casting as my positive had too much undercut, but I will hopefully fix this in the second prototype. This led to a tentacle being cut off a little too short (the right front one has a curlicue in the very tip) and there’s a bit of residue from the clay(?) withe which the liver of sulfur that I used for staining doesn’t react well with and hence leaves white stains. It only happens over time so you can’t see it well in the pictures but it still sucks.

The sculpt came out fairly big, it’s 3.5 by 4 cm which makes it more of a keychain then a necklace. Although I did carve out the backside it’s fairly heavy and hence not that good for wearing. I plan on only getting 5 to see how well you will like them and then maybe order more if you do. I will also be making a smaller version that can actually be worn as a necklace without ruining your back and/or your posture.

For more pictures please visit my tumblr .

and if you want to see what else I’ve been up to, follow me on my instagram