Sir Create

“Salvage” My piece for Art Awakens at Gallery1988, in partnership with Lucas Film, Disney, and Bad Robot. Art Awakens is auctioning off original artwork and selling prints to benefit a great cause. While recovering from the Battle of Endor, Wicket commemorates the day's events on a downed AT-ST.

Now Available at Gallery 1988

Making of “Newt”

Sketch: It’s rare, but sometimes for these official shows, artists are asked to submit a sketch of what they plan on doing. Unless asked, I practically never sketch anything out. I’m not great at putting what I see in my head down on paper. The sketch got approved.

The Figure: I always start with the character, no matter what my overall design is. Typically, I make the head and body separately. First I make the head, and the body comes second. I’ll then join then with epoxy glue, give it a coat of primer, and get to painting.

Pedestal Item: A lot of my pieces involve a pedestal item that the character stands on. This gets made second. For this piece, I needed a jar, and finding one that was the right size AND had a usable lid was a challenge. I ended up creating my own lid out of wood, after a failed attempt to make it out of clay. After creating/painting the specimen that goes inside, I had to start pouring in the resin. The resin had to be done in one inch-layers to prevent it from distorting within the glass. I glued the specimen to the lid for the first layer so it would later be held in place by the hardened resin. The resin cured for one day between each additional layer.

Base: This base was a bit more elaborate than I was used to doing. I needed the jar to fit inside a mouth and the teeth would be too fragile if I used the clay sculpt I had made. The solution to that was to make a mold of the sculpt, and then make a large resin cast of the teeth. This basically gives me a plastic-like replication. After gluing the cast to the wood base with epoxy glue, I blended the cast with the base using a self-hardening epoxy clay (the gray areas of the base in that pic). Once hardened, I primed/painted.