Art Human

Opening up new pet portrait slots!!

Digital download, $120, little hats are free to add and backgrounds are $15+ depending on complexity

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Experimenting with some new background styles to offer on pet portraits!

Model credit: My beloved Soup and her psychic forcefields

Funeral for a friend: decay, extinction, and saying goodbye

This paper-mache 1:1 scale allosaurus bust holds a special place in my heart, he’s one of the first sculptures I ever made. Apologies for the level of scientific accuracy here—it was 2013, I was young and naive.

The planets have aligned in an unfortunate way, and it’s time for me to send him off to the great beyond. I’ve fretted for a long time about how to do this.

I decided to let him slip away in a slow decay, rather than a blaze of glory. I’ll be documenting my buddy here slowly melt back into the earth. He’s made of paper, cardboard, and flour paste; I’ll gather up his polymer clay teeth as they shake loose during his final rest in my parents’ backyard. Big thank you to my folks for allowing me to do this weird thing.

For as long as it takes I’ll document the process of my allosaurus friend disappearing. I’ve been thinking a lot about loss and goodbyes in the past few years. Decay too. The permanence of it all makes my stomach twist, even for a silly dinosaur sculpture. Once it’s gone it can’t come back

Bonus pic of my mom’s cat, Martha Babka, cautiously investigating

Paint is bubbling and cracking, most interesting to me is how some of the individual paper-mache strips are becoming visible through all these cycles rain and drying

Day 627: Someone ate the dang thing! Kicked him open!

I’m impressed with how fresh these interior paper guts look after all this time.