That Friday feeling....

Here's summat to keep you occupied over the Easter weekend. Forgive the lack of dotted lines but I think you'll suss it out!

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iDraig paper toy in the wild...

Just seen this great little feature over on the French Paper Toy blogsite with my iDraig creation, one of my iQube series of paper toys. Not sure who built the example in the photo on the site but it's beautifully done and the setting really sets the little fellah off a treat.....and the Draig bit of iDraig? It's Welsh...go have a mini adventure and look it up.

Meanwhile, deep in the heart of Spiderwood...

Here's one of the photographic creations of Gemma Burleigh Photography using my 5 hour scratch made spider crafted from newspaper, masking tape,PVA, two black bin liners and a heat gun.

I love the spookiness to the whole image and the undersold colours... and the spiders are looking fabulously chitinous in the processing.

Gemma is a talented professional studio and portrait photographer operating from St Austell and you can see more of her work on her dedicated folio site and her Facebook pages.

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Hush Baby Gruntling, Daddy's gone a-hunting, To fetch a crinkly spider skin to wrap our Baby Gruntling in...

Bit more experimenting on spiders this afternoon. Following on from a previous post a couple of weeks ago I got out the trusty heat gun and black plastic bin liners on the back step today and shrink wrapped the beginings of a suitably budget chitinous coating onto my newspaper creation. 

Kind of rough and ready, but built partly as a prop favour for Gemma Burleigh Photography and I think it'll probably come up a treat in any processed photographs later...

Meanwhile in the parlour...

It's strange what can crawl out of the drawing board when you sit staring at it too late and long into the evening. The early newsprint and masking tape stages of some modelling strangeness for a friend's possible photo experiments. Layers of mache and PVA next...

Samhain Scissoriness

Just a quick post to say I've got around to posting my Grim Reaper and The Mummy 3D paper toys over on my Bigfoot Studio site in time (just) for Halloween. Have fun!.

King Arthur & Cmdr Zap! Latest Bigfoot Studio Free Paper Toys:

The latest additions to my Nogginz series of paper toys...welcoming King Arthur and Commander Zap! King Arthur being the first of four Arthurian/Albion characters I'll be posting, and Commander Zap being a nod to all the Saturday morning adventure serials of the 1930s.

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New Bigfoot Studio site complete...

...all bar a few minor tweeks here and there. I've been really taken with Weebly as an incredibly useful and user friendly, free web builder. I've finally found something that with even my basic patchy coding knowledge, has given me loads of scope for updating and expanding, offering free downloads etc.

So now all the Bigfoot Studio venues are corralled and signposted from one location at last. Pop by and view, buy or print, cut 'n' make!