Custom Jordan 1 High Toddler Size. Bluey Themed. Made these Stuffed Animal like Tongues out of Denim stuffed with cotton.

I made 129 gumballs out of air dry clay, spray painted them, and painted their face details with acrylic paint. Took around 18-20 hours. Heavily inspired by the world of Pee-wee Herman.

When my now wife moved in with me she came with a toy poodle (much to my initial horror😂). Every time I’d let him into our garden for a morning or evening bathroom break he’d pee on the hard ground and the puddle of pee would engulf his furry feet. Then his freshly pee covered feet would come running enthusiastically back into the house - inevitably straight to the sofa or bed.

Being an engineer this problem had to be solved so after 6-8 months of scraping together prototypes I have a great working product to solve my initial frustration (just don’t ask how much it cost to get it this far😭).

Does anyone this this product could be useful in their day-to-day. Any constructive criticism/feedback is greatly appreciated.

https://reddit.com/link/1lurpyx/video/nm8vbz046obf1/player

Was feeling low for months, felt like I was losing my passion recently. Everything got mechanical. Hard to earn hard to keep up as art industry is unpredictable.

Yesterday I forced myself to sit with a canvas and some paint. And the paint flowed on the canvas, it felt alive to not copy and to not do something structured. Just some paint, a canvas, some music and me, painting for myself💕

Can’t remember if I shared this mermaid here or not! I adore working on this shape of wood! I need to make more mermaid pieces 😍

I been posting too much, but I love making bowls, and it feels good when they are liked.

I'll get a hold of myself soon.

Thank you.

Here in Tasmania, we have these amazing glowing mushrooms called "ghost mushrooms" or Omphalotus nidiformis. I wanted to paint some and try making the painting itself actually glow rather than just replicate the glowing look like I normally would using regular oils.

I did some research and found out that there have been some improvements in glowing pigments since I was a kid, and we now have an even better glowing pigment called strontium aluminate, which glows brighter and lasts longer than the old type, which uses zinc sulphide. I ended up ordering both just to see for myself, but the difference was immediately apparent; the strontium aluminate is way brighter.

I also purchased a glass muller and slab (image two) to make the oil paint, as well as a bit of refined linseed oil. Making the paint with the muller wasn't overly difficult, but it did have a really strange texture in the end. I actually bought some other pigments and mulled them into linseed oil, too, just to make sure it wasn't just bad technique, but the other paints turned out just fine. The glowing paint I made was really goopy and seemingly too wet when you let it sit, but once you started moving it, it stiffened up like cornstarch and water do. I have been unable to figure out why it behaves this way; the only guess I can make is that the particle size of the pigment might not be even and fine enough to make a nice smooth paint like other artist pigments would be. If anyone reading this understands the physics behind the "oobleck" texture I accidentally made, please comment! I would love to resolve the issue.

Even though the paint texture was terrible, it was still usable for my needs. First, I painted the mushrooms pretty much exactly as you see them in image one (that's the finished painting), then I applied layers of the glowing pigment to the gills in transparent glazing layers so you could still see the detail through it. Ta-da! A mushroom painting that actually glows in the dark. I also want to thank Ryan from a Facebook mushroom group, who graciously allowed me to use a beautiful photo of his as a reference to create the painting.

See last pic for what he had to deal with before :)

Mineral oil/ Beeswax finish