I finished doing the hookers...er...I mean...making them...ok, that didn't sound right either...ummm..sculpting them..yeah, that's it and doing the dog...no, not THAT kind of doing it, here's a few pics.










Still trimming the hair on the dog but you get the idea. He'll be peeing on the drunk in the street scene I'm doing with the hookers. The last pic is a sculpt in the works. I put that on so you can see part of the process the hookers went through as well as the drunk and dog.


Once I make the clothing for the drunk, I'll be starting the rest of the street scene.



More soon.......

Mick

Ok, had to take a few days off from the egg. Doing that tiny work even under the scope is pretty rough on the eyes and nerves so I've been working on another, larger work. This one is a roombox scene of an urban area..a kind of street scene a bit larger than 1:12 scale (dollhouse). Usually, I don't go with an exact scale. I call my scale...eyeball scale..which is to say, I make a sculpture of a human or animal then build everything else associated with it to that scale. Once in a while I'll build to an exact scale...say...if someone commissioned a railroad scene or wanted a setting for an art doll or collector doll of some kind I'd build to that scale but usually, it's eyeball scale which works out well for me.
This roombox has a tentative name of "52nd Street" and is a scene set out in front of an adult bookstore with a pawn shop on one side and a liquor store on the other. I've sculpted the 2 hookers (in polymer clays) and have the clothing done for one so far (she's HOT) and have started the clothing for the other. I've also sculpted the drunk who'll be passed out near the entrance of the liquor store and just finished the dog who'll be peeing on the drunk. Soon as I finish the clothing for all the figures and the fur for the dog, I'll begin making the box and the buildings inside, the sidewalk, trash, manhole covers, lights, etc. I'll post pics of the hookers, drunk and the dog in the next couple days. You can see one of the hookers in the background of one of the photos I posted recently (to the left of the egg). She wasn't too far along in that shot but she's done now.
It's going to be a very challenging scene but I like that...figuring out how to make an effect and experimenting with different materials to scratch-build the items for the scene.

More soon......

Mick

Hello there. I am Michael (or Mick), a professional miniaturist who is working on getting my work seen. While I do many forms of art, hand-made, one-of-a-kind miniature scenes (or worlds) is by far my favorite of all the forms because it involves such a wide array of all forms of art to some degree..sculpture, wood, painting, glass, metal, light, music, etc..all blended to create miniature worlds which people often get lost in while viewing. Some call this Diorama..which it is but this isn't the average "buy some stuff and figures then arrange them on a board" works or build a model scene (though I have seen some of these which were very nicely done)...not by a long shot. Mine are entirely hand-made often spending several hundred hours (many under a microscope) sculpting each individual part from raw materials (wood, clays, metals, precious metals, etc) then landscaping and assembling the scene inside enclosures I make myself or inside egg shells, gourds or other natural enclosures to make the viewer feel as though they can just walk into the scene and live there for at least the moment.

Over time, I'll be posting photos of finished works, not only miniatures but paintings, limestone sculptures and other art forms for you to look over as well as photos of works in progress and studio shots.

I hope you enjoy my work as much as I enjoy creating them. Please feel free to invite friends to view my works and maybe, if I'm lucky, my work will be seen by gallery owners, exhibit promoters or others who may want a one-of-a-kind work by me.

Thanks,
Michael