Tuesday, July 21, 2009

ghost board

I made this little felt picture of a ghost. You could do the same if you want, or go in a completely different direction. What you will need to make your own type felt and wood piece.
A board or some type of wood panel.
Material, fabric of your choosing. It should be cut at least an inch larger then your board on all sides. Example, if you have an 8inch by 10 inch board the material should be at least 10inches by 12inches.
Felt of different colors.
Staple gun and hot glue gun.
Marker light color or vanishing ink.
Instructions
Place the material face down. Put the board on the center of the fabric. Fold up the over hanging fabric tight against the board. Using the staple gun, attach the fabric to the board. The board is set. board
Draw on the felt you character, mine is the ghost. I drew it out onto the felt. Cut from felt.
cutting
A suggestion would be to piece together the character first before gluing everything together. This way you'll have a grasp of what the character will look like. Glue on the parts to your character. I glued on the ghosts mouth and eyes.
glueing
Last bit, glue the character to the board. That is it. You could hammer on some sort of mount so you could hang the board up.ghost

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

May craft

May past with no post. It doesn't mean i wasn't building or working. here is what i did in May.
I had to take a guitar on board an aeroplane. The only thing was that the case was not finished. It was bare, there was no padding to secure the guitar. this is what i did. i first made a template of the guitar by tracing around it onto cardboard. then i measured the lid of the case and purchased foam from Jo anns. the top was easy, i just cut the foam to fit. the bottom on the other hand was a bit tricky.
case
I cut and formed pieces to allow the guitar to fit snug. if i had to do it again i would have bought a yard and a half of 5inch foam and cut to fit the guitar in one piece. it would have been easier and tooken less time to complete. I hot glued some of the pieces together. It worked very well. thank you

Thursday, April 30, 2009

end of the month push

Here is the new one shot zine for May,

nguyenbeef

I have been working hard on some new goods. Here is a monster i made. when you push a little button on his clavicle his mouth lights up. he spits fire and has teeth. see for yourself.

Chompsky from psticks on Vimeo.

here is a full body photo.

chompsky

thank you.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Megaman 2 Portraits

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I just completed the 8 robot portraits in perler beads. the middle square is a winking Sailor Venus. i am still not sure if i want to make a Dr. Wiley logo yet. The hardest was Woodman because of the browns. the next group, Megaman 3 robots. I am about 3 down so far.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

a deluge of junk

There is a backlash and a time away, this is the catch up, sorry.

First off, new one shot mini zine MAS is out now.

Maszine

Here are some of the paintings i have finished the past two months. Feb samples

FEB

The top painting of the bear and robot I sent to my friend author Becky Cooper. Here are some of the paintings from march.

March

The bottom plaid type character i made and traded with YTEK. I traded her some art goods. She sent me a wonderful box full of art goods. Here are some of the panels from the box.
ice cream I really like her line work. Here is my favorite panel from the box.
nanaytek Awesome, the Nah na na nahh is like the chorus to the Master P song "make em say uh". here is a link to Ytek's sketch blog.
http://www.ytak87.blogspot.com/
I also traded gooods with Rachel a photographer and execellent knitter. Here is the Cookie monster she sent me. cookiemonster Here is her flickr page. http://www.flickr.com/photos/photowhore/
I have some more sewing to do. sorry for all the mess.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Goldchain

I made this ugly trunk chain for my friend the z man aka Zehnertron. It was really simple. I bought a foam letter Z at Michaels then i painted it a couple of coats gold. then i cut up a toy gold chain i bought at the dollar treewith wire cutters. Final step was the hot glue gun action. glueing the chain to the letter, that is it. ready for some yo! MtV raps cards.
zman chain

Monday, February 2, 2009

NEW ZINE COMING SOON!

Fine Young Cannibal Holocaust is almost complete. It will be released the first week of Feb. Here is the cover. Thank you
fycholo