WeirdmustArt

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  • ACEOs are still on

    Trilogy Media lovingly looking down on my little aphids.

    Cute aphid actually.

    (“Urania Tierreich” – “Insekten” – 5. edition, 1989)

    What is it, what is it? Probably spring “migrantes”.

  • Ceramiclay struggles

    It IS the goddamn material. Years after my first try with ceramiclay ended in the material refusing to take on any acrylic color at all, I think I have figured it out. They told me, I don’t need any primer. But three days ago I primed the very first ceramiclay figure I ever made and now the color actually sticks!

    A crumbleing figure of two mushrooms. So far their hood is painted dark brown, even though a bit patchy, and the underside is green. But here and there there are green spots on the brown.

    Now I just gotta learn how to paint anything.

  • Graphosoma italicum

    Nothing wrong with trying out a new medium, everything wrong with the medium refusing to work the way it does according to the packaging. This is the third time, I’ve tried using Keramiplast to make a little thing and we are all very excited to find out if acrylic paint will stick to it as soon as it is dried.

    A raw sand colored ceramiclay sculpture of a flat shield bug. It doesn't have any color yet and is very fresh and still drying. Its antennae consists of two black metal cable binders.

    Graphosoma italicum is a very colorful shield bug I first spotted two years ago. With its black and orange stripes and the carefree attitude a lot of shield bugs show, it is true pleasure to look at, stumbling around on flowers, drunk on nectar and pollen.

    Rawest version of the still wet flat bug figure without antennae, next to some tools that were used to shape it.