Tag: my art

I want to get some pet quail after college, so I got this too-small-for-birds birdhouse and decorated it. 

The roof and insides are done in Stuart Semple’s Black pigment. You can see it’s not quite that black-hole-in-space level of darkness, but, unless I shine a light directly into the entrance, the inside of the birdhouse looks like it doesn’t exist. It’s a pretty neat effect. 

My lamp wasn’t kind to the coloration here. It’s a bit sparklier in person, and less dingy. The black marks all over it are intentional, it looked too plain otherwise, and they look a bit better in person. 

The perch was missing, so I replaced it with a pencil that slides out to keep track of things. 

I like it!

Everyone, meet Reaver.
(Please imagine his color smooth and shiny, there’s a limit to what I can do with pencils.)
His color nanites fill scars in black, and he makes no effort to change that, scars are things of pride where he’s from.
Look at those wings!

EDIT from later: I’ve changed his colors. His plating is a bit more towards purple, and his faceplates are a deep purple. His optics are the same design, but with a gold ring instead of red. 

My little brother really likes flags, so I made some charms of fairly obscure flags for his Christmas present. The flags are Shrinky-Dinks, and the largest flags are about an inch long. The two outcroppings on the strings of the larger flags are abstract representations of the corresponding country’s native bird.

(The colors are much better in person.)

Made a necklace! It’s fool’s gold (sparklier in person) and imperfect quartz crystals. They suit each other, both in looks and in being considered worthless.

This looks way better in person, it’s too shiny for my phone camera. 

Made myself some earrings to match the necklace earlier. Dime-sized split ammonite, a couple of beads, some copper wire, a pair of bronze-colored earring hooks, and about 10 minutes.

The mat under them is this cool silicone-esque mat that’s gently sticky, so you can put beads and stuff on it and nothing rolls bounces off of or rolls away from you. 

I made a necklace!
The pendant at the bottom is a fossilized tooth from the rostrum (saw) of a giant sawfish. The necklace is strung on thin wire instead of string, and it’s in segments, so each section can move a bit.