'Protection II:The Warning'

This sculpture is made from polymer clay, organic material and gem stones. 'Protection II: The Warning' is the second part to the pencil drawing that is in fact my header for this blog :D entitled 'Protection: Mechanical Reproduction'. This sculpture captures the creation of an alien/mythological creatures life at its development stage. The question is whether or not to destroy this dangerous creature before it annihilates our civilization?

"They Mostly Come at Night... Mostly!" (Finished Piece).

This is the finished piece of work based on a cross section of an ‘alien’ spine. Much like the previous test piece in an earlier post I’ve used a blend of polymer clays to achieve a bone texture and emphasised certain aspects with metal and copper leaf. For those of you that know your Sci-fi films you would have noticed that the name of this sculpture is a quote from the film Aliens, it’s my favourite part of the film. As I enjoyed making this sculpture so much I am considering turning it into a series of work – creating unusual ‘alien’ bones that some archaeologist could have excavated perhaps haha?!

Test Piece: Alien Spine

This was taken on my awful camera phone, so the quality is very poor. This is the test pieces for my new polymer sculpture based on an alien spinal column. I have used copper metal leaf on the tips. I’m pleased with the test piece so far and hopefully will be finishing the final piece next week, along with some much better quality photos to show you. My next task is to think of a name for it :)

Tails from the River Bank

This is a sculpture made from Polymer clay. It’s a wall hanging called “Tails from the River Bank” a play on words ‘Tails’ instead of ‘Tales’ - you get the idea haha. I started this piece by wanting to create a ‘bone’ texture from polymer clay; the form of a cross section of a vertebra was perfect to display this. I then wanted to create a skin like texture from polymer, when noticed the cross sectioned vertebra looked similar to a flat fish, like a plaice or a stingray. This inspired me to make an ‘alien’ river creature. The photographs where taken by photographer Rebecca Maggs.

Picture frame size 14 x 11.