Pulled Pork - piglet #3...

...the third and final installment of my "Pulled Pork" series: "PORK $ale".

Following are shortcuts to the other 2 and the digital concepts:
#2: "Pulled Pork"
#1: "CHOPPED."
Concept images (1-3).

I'm planning on introducing the series to the local art community next week to work out a fair price range...

Pulled Pork - the second palette canvas is up...

...my second 32 inch square (90cm) palette wood canvas is up in the hallway - next to the one from last month's post ("Chopped - November 2, 2013")...

...just started on the third and final concept this evening.

thus far the paintings have been taking me about a week - though, the palettes for the canvases seem rather elusive (contributing to the rarity of this series, once it goes into limited/numbered production)...

"Praise the Excess" finished painting...

finished in acrylics..."The New World 2014 - Praise the Excess"  (update from an earlier post: New painting in the works...)

took about 10 days to complete!

Zombie kit (z-kit) in pre-production - beyond the prototype!

some time in 2012 i posted my hand-made zombie outbreak emergency kit. well, it is finally going into limited (very) production for the retail market in Savannah - the first 10 kits are complete...

they are available in the original green felt, as well as blue, white, red and black (not pictured here). the wooden case (locally made out of poplar) is available in a dark cherry or blond stain. off course all the contents are as high quality (name brand) as in the original (see linked post)...

...i am still in the process of finding a local retailer for them...though i may offer them online..

...only there are some issues with the 18inch military machete...

Pulled Pork - no longer digital

...measuring in at 32 inch square (90cm) the first of my Piggly Wiggly concepts has made it onto the palette wood and the hallway wall...

...the next 2 are on their way (observe the raw materials at the bottom - (really dirty) full-size shipping palettes)...

...bacon time!

New painting in the works...

...and now, for something completely different - a new painting!

i've already transferred the sketch onto a 30 by 40 inch canvas (76cm x 102cm for my metric readers) and started blocking it out in acrylics (i stopped using oils, because for some reason they always make me sick).

the text is in Classical Latin, and translates to "the new world 2014 - praise the excess". i'll leave it to you, my readers, to come up with some profound meaning to this, if any (maybe, i just wanted a painting of a 1st century AD Roman legionary and fast food icons hanging above the mantle shadowing the dining table)...

...i just hope i got the Latin right, don't want my College Latin professors thinking all their effort was for naught (Don't despair, David and Barry, its just been a while)...

2 Stroke Prosthetic Bunny - the action figure - part 7

Phase 7: prototype wax cast (continuation of my March motor bunny post).

The molds i poured from the clay master were rather rough (this was expected, as it is my very first attempt at urethane rubber - and creating an action figure from scratch), the wax casts turned out a bit bumpy and pitted...

...however, the wax casting was surprisingly easy and fast to do (only took about 2hrs to cure solid for each segment and de-molded painlessly). It was important to maintain the melted down the ingredients (from the previous bunny post) at around 170F, to prevent bubbles from forming or cracking/tearing as the wax cures.

Once de-molded, each segment had to be sanded, scraped and carved to achieve a smooth finish (i got some really cool looking dentistry-like tools for that)...

next step: build and insert the linking joints...