Beastlies

Weekend creasearch! That’s what I call going on creature research inspiration field trips.  A couple weeks back I did my creasearch at the Museum of Natural History, which I always love.  That trip inspired some new pieces, including two mounted head taxidermy guys that were a lot of fun to make.  This weekend I’ll be getting up close and personal with an armadillo, a fennec fox, a Siberian lynx, and some other little critters.  I’m so excited I can hardly wait.  

The more interesting things/animals I can get my eyeballs on, the better the work, even if the inspiration only marinates into it in some little obscure way that no one but me will ever notice.  I need to plan another trip to the museum soon, and then maybe hit the aquarium again…  But in the meantime, FENNEC FOX! What’s cuter than that?!

Edit: I didn’t initially mean to make that a tumblr question for people to respond to, but then I realized, it’s something we all need to know the answer to, if there is one.

WHAT IS CUTER THAN A FENNEC FOX? NOTHING, RIGHT?

This Beastlie pretty accurately represents my feelings this morning upon discovering Sculpey had come out with new colors.  It’s like if you were a, I don’t know, a pie maker and one day someone was like “Check out this new chocoberry bush!”  You’d be like “Holy butts!”  Or at least I would. And was, this morning…. as I bought overflowing handfuls of “Gentle Plum,” “Tranquility,” and “Camouflage.” (They didn’t have “Jungle.” But next time, it shall be mine.) 

Anonymous asked: Awesome stuff as usual! I own a few beastlies. I was curious, do you have help running this "company" you have going on? :)

Thank you! I hope your Beastlies are behaving.

So, no but also yes.  Beastlies is really just me.  But I do also have this permanent unpaid intern who lives with me!  My husband Emory helps with packaging, shipping, financial bizniz, and if you’ve met me at Comic-Con, you likely also met him (unless you met me last year. He had to stay home and work. Our buddies Jeff & Frank held down the table with me, as they have many times before).  Also, gotta love that health insurance!  If Emory didn’t have a job that provided that, I probably wouldn’t have felt comfortable pursuing Beastlies full time.  Health insurance is nothing to sneeze at.  

LITERALLY! HAHA HA HA ahem. Sorry.

Man! Comic-Con is actually REALLY SOON.  This is always the time of year when I begin to be simultaneously freaked out about the amount of stuff I have left to do and super excited meet people to show you guys all the new stuff I’ve been working on.  I made a little teaser image of some of the type of things I’ll be bringing (in addition to regular Beastlies, of course!) that I’ve never offered before. I love new projects! 

And now I’ve got to get back to sculpting. My goal is to bring 200 of the regular-type Beastlies, and I’ve only got 115 so far.  Today I’ve decided that if I don’t meet my daily quota, I don’t get any of the afternoon snack they provide here at the office.  THE STAKES HAVE NEVER BEEN HIGHER.  

Sometimes you’ve just got to treat yourself like a petulant toddler in order to get shit done.  

New Beastlies in the shop!

I posted this guy before, in the preview, but I’m gonna post him again with all the bonus photos because he’s still available (and he’s the only one left to post!)

Caballiomimus (extinct)

(Purchase info can be found here.)

And now, back to our regularly-scheduled program.

So here’s the next available piece from the Corner Museum of Dubious Beasts: The Giant bat-eared fillimander (Andrias megalotis)

(Purchase info can be found here.)

Just about the coolest thing ever for this lifelong Trek nerd was going to the premiere of Star Trek Into Darkness last night.  It really meant a lot to me.  

Hello! So this little guy is the Globular fruitbeast (Rhoncopilam bestiafructum), and he is another one of the guys from the Dubious Beasts show that is still available! (Purchase info can be found here.)

So this is one of the guys from the Dubious Beasts show that is still available!  He is the Velvet Tree Fillimander (Ambystomalaneus) and he seems pretty content with his shelf fungus perch.

(Purchase info and such can be found here.)