Black Cat Cottage

woensdag 9 mei 2012

Progress on witch (2)

I thought I'd show you how far I am with my witch. It's not much, but at least it's some progress.

I've made the broom earlier. A witch broom has a will of its own, so I thought it needed a face. The eyes are little balls, used in nail art. I think it still needs something to make it more lively, but I don't know what.

The shoes are made of Fimo. I tried making them of a leatherlook fabric, but it was too thick, and didn't follow the curves of the foot. I'm not completely satisfied with this either, but at least it looks like shoes. I do like how the shoestrings have become. It's common thread glued into holes, punched into the clay.

Today I worked on the hands and the wand. I broke one of the hands before, while trying to fit the wand, so I had to make a new one.

The magic wand is more a torch than a wand. I made it with a LED-light in it. I really hope it will work. A LED-light should stay cold, so it should not be any problem with the glue close to it, but I couldn't try it. I did a drastic clean up of my hobbyroom, and since then, I can't find anything!

Now the witch is ready for some clothes, a new challenge. And I still haven't figured out how to put the with on the broom and hang them in the lantern. Upright and stable, that is.

Bye for now,

Marit

zondag 5 februari 2012

Progress on witch

This week I've been busy on the head of the witch. I painted the face and I made a hat for her. The next step will be to glue hair, but before that, I need a haircut myself... ;-)

Bye for now,

Marit

maandag 30 januari 2012

(Not so) new project

It has been long since I blogged: I had nothing to tell, too many other things on my mind. Last summer I had this idea for a Halloween scene, with a ghost, graves and a flying witch. But on Halloween, I only had made a start on it. Then, I thought I could better work on my ideas for a Chistmas scene, but also those plans hardly left my sketchbook. So now I'm back to my Halloween plans, maybe this year I'll finish them for the date? ;-)

The scene will be made in this lantern. I used a sort of wax to make the metal ornaments look shiny silver, fantastic stuff, also to let very small objects look like they're made from metal. Beneath the raised floor the electrics will be connected, because it will contain many small lights for the spooky effect.

One of these lights will be in this owl. Dutch people may recognise it as a toy given by a supermarket. It's made hollow and inside is a small LED-light, which I bought at Nalladris. Normal lights will get too hot, and these LED's are made ready for use in a dollshouse with the ordinary transformator. When it's finished the owl will have two orange eyes glowing in the night, just like the ones breeding nearby my house every year:

In the churchwall, I want to make a coloured glass window, also with a light. It's made of lasered wood, a sheet of plastic and glass-paint.

Above, a witch will fly on a broom. I wanted to try to make her all myself. I'm glad I tried a witch, not a fairy lady: I couldn't get her face to look more female than this! But she doesn't need to be pretty, so I'm happy with the result.

I couldn't help myself to also make something a lot smaller, it's what I like best. I was born in the year of the dragon, and this is my tiny dragon-hanger (1,5 cm in width):

I hope to blog more from now on, and also visit your blogs more often, see all the inspirational things you make!

Marit

donderdag 21 juli 2011

Molly by light

"Hi honey, what are you doing?" "Oh, I'm electrifying a walnut."

I think I might be overdoing it this time, and perhaps I remove the light. But I thought to glue some very tiny glow-in-the-dark stars inside the walnut, and they would need light to glow.

Here's the walnut by daylight:

It needs a stand to hang it in, still thinking on that. In the meanwhile I started working on a new project, without finishing the previous ones (again)...

Marit