The Wigglebutt Blog

Here goes my second try to do this post. I seem to have a real challenge with pictures and html. Well, here goes.... This is the list of specifics for my latest commission piece. Inspiration for this piece came from here . The most important things requested were the red hair and red lips, REALLY BIG red lips. Mick Jagger big. And, of course, the guitar. It had to be an acoustic guitar rather than the electric used by "The Guitar Man". I don't know why, but I felt like she should have large eyes. It took SEVERAL tries to get something that didn't resemble Arnold Schwarzenegger at the end of "Total Recall". You know the scene.. the one where he gets sucked out into the bad atmosphere of Mars, right before the alien device fixes the air, and he's writhing on the ground looking like one giant face bulge. Well, enough of that. I think I finally came up with something that looks a little better than that. She still looks a little bit alien but not as bad a...

Just a quick post to show you Guitar Gal in progress. I usually try to move whatever item I am photographing to a clean and tidy area of my studio to take the photo. To be honest, there isn't a clean and tidy area in my studio right now and I would rather work on finishing her than clean up. So there you have it! ( She's green because that is the only color of floral tape I had:) Don't ya love her tufted stool?? I finally finished her guitar. I haven't varnished it yet because I can't decide if I should add the darker color around the edge like on the one in the photo I got off of Google. What do you think?

I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to make a figure for a very good friend of mine. She saw my " Guitar Man" and asked me to make a "Guitar Gal" for her daughter who has fallen in love with the acoustic guitar. Well, her daughter's birthday is in March and she asked me to make this in January. N o problem, plenty of time. Then I inexplicably got completel y caught up in making Hearts. Even when I tried to take a break from the hearts and start the figure, it just wouldn't come. ( I always start with the head so that they can properly introduce themselves. Then I can figure out their personality, how they dress, how they stand or sit, etc. ) Well, every time I tried to work on the head I got distracted. I sculpted and squished, sculpted and squished so many times I finally lost count . Apparently, there was just one more heart I needed to make..... then another..then another. I think I finally got the hearts out of my system. When I sat down to have another ...