This was way too much fun to make. The original Super Mario Bros. is one of only 2 video games I actually played... myself... to the end... The other was the original Legend of Zelda. Then they all went and got too fancy for me. LOLI made this completely out of clay and wire. I'm actually not sure which was harder... making all the pieces or assembling it! I grossly underestimated the weight of all the pieces when they were put together and I ended up having to super glue a lot of the posts back in to most of the pieces. The little blue separators were a huge pain to make, especially when I was assembling it and realized I was 1 short! The entire piece is over 3 feet long. If you zoom, you'll be able to see more detail. I guess there's a height limit on the photos lol.
I wanted to make something that represented movement. And considering mobiles rotate, I thought a tornado would be the most appropriate design to make. I used some wiring I found in my parents shed and shaped it around a traffic cone I found lying around. The toys belonged to my daughter, who was more than happy to donate them for this project. It was a lot of fun once we got it hung up to spin and watch it in action.
I made this both for the contest and for my daughter who loves this movie. It's made completely of clay and the top piece is three dimensional. The sky, moon, hill, tombstones, fence & pumpkins were all made separately then super glued together... along with two of my fingers! You laugh, but (sadly) I'm not joking. :P
Phew! I wasn't sure I would get this done in time!This was (obviously) inspired buy the most awesomest childhood board game ever! My siblings & I played it so much Santa had to bring us a new one every year. This was also the case with my children. Originally, I wanted to make the characters for the dangles, but I knew I wouldn't have enough time. So, I made the treats they represented.There are a total of 99 tiles. Each was made of hand looped wire sandwiched between 2 tiles of clay. Yes, that means I had to cut out 198 squares. On 3 (a yellow gumdrop, a blue lollipop & a red fudgesicle) I added a black dot that, in the game, you could get stuck on.The header is a 6" round piece of wood painted brown. The edge is covered in snow tex to simulate frosting. Going around it are different types of treats (including a stack of Pez candy for my husband lol). In between those are the pink squares with the different character symbols like on the game board. And you'd soooo be lieing if you said you never tried to stack the deck to get Queen Frostine's card!!The zoom imaged is much larger and here are some closeups of the dangles and header.
A special thanks to solipsism for inspiration on this one. I was struggling with an idea for a mobile when he posted in the forums about Pacman's 30th Birthday. I made all the pieces from clay. For the ghosts, I made a cardboard template so they would be uniform in size. The ghost in the middle looks black, but it's actually dark blue.
Balancing this was the hardest part. The tutorial said to balance from the bottom up and that is the ONLY way it will work. Even so, I have to admit I broke a few little necks when one whole side slipped off before I secured it. (they all recovered)Sculpey, wire, springs, miscellaneous hardware and office supplies. Toothpick necks.This also turned out WAY bigger than expected - that is why the motion view is outside :D
The birds are made from scraps of fabric I saved over the years. YAY! My pack-ratting finally paid off. :PThe sticks all fell from my trees during a recent storm.
This was a HUGE challenge! All of those little coaster things were folded and put together by me and my girlfriend. There are 8 pieces per coaster. I started this thing from scratch. I have never made a mobile before, but I think this turned out pretty good.Materials I used include: Neon colored printing paper, fishing line, beads, tape, hot glue and my own hard work.Hope you like what you see!Comments and Critique welcome and encouraged!
Materials: seeds shells, fishing line, sticks