So Much yet so Little Time

I’ve been making a lot of progress lately. My husband and I just bought our first House WHOOT! and we will be moving in soon. With all the packing and unpacking that goes with moving into a new place, not to mention the painting and a million other things we will be doing, I am trying to get out as many Myxies as possible before the move. Dragon Con, the largest SiFi Convention in the Southeast, is coming up in September, and I want to have plenty of inventory by then. Even though I have made a nice dent in my to do Myxie list, I still have about 12 Myxies to complete. Considering each Myxie takes 2-3 days, I’m trying to hurry or I won’t be able to get them all finished. I have some really Fun Myxies planned too, Steampunk Witch, Pirate, Geisha, just to name a few. Also I plan on making many more Dragon Pals, including more Steampunk Dragon Pals. Going to try and get at least 2 more Myxies done before June…only have a few more days to do it in too…then I may take a few weeks off to get all the moving and house stuff out of the way. But I’m hoping all of that won’t take too long and I’ll be able to get back to sculpting. So there’s just a little update on things to come, Keep checking my blog for updates. Thanks for reading :) ~Caralyn

All Dressed up...

I have some Photos to show you from some of my newest Myxie sculptures. Hand stitched Dresses that came out just adorable, shoes and their hair done all up, these two are ready for their close up :)
I am slowly posting the my newest pieces on my Etsy Store and should have them up shortly.
Thanks for reading!
~Caralyn

Masquerade! Polymer Faces on Parade!

EKKKK! I FINIALLY finished the Masquerade Myxie I’ve been working on and I’m sooo Pleased with how she turned out. From her Top Hat and Masquerade mask to her Glitter filled bustier, I am LOVING this one. Even though she didn’t come out exactly the way I imagined, which they never do, She still is my favorite Myxie this year. I was originally going for Victorian Show girl and she came out more like Lady Gaga’s Fairy sidekick…but heck that works for me. So I hope you all like her, I plan to have her displayed in the Dragon Con Art Show Gallery so make sure to stop by and check her out.

Thanks for reading!

~Caralyn

That was Weird...

So Happy about how easy the Dragon Con sign up was this year. Since I won two awards, best Fairy and Best Horror at Dragon Con 2010, I didn’t have to go through the Art Show Jury this year. Thanks to all the attendees who voted for my work and saved me the tedious task of selecting which of my pieces to send to be judged. Not to mention, being able to now avoid the long wait on “will I be excepted in the show or not” that follows. This time I just filled out what displays and tables I wanted and Bop! Bam! Boo! I was done in like 5 minutes…leaving me plenty of time to do other things I needed to get done. Such as staring mindlessly at my computer, trying to look as though I’m working diligently on pointless Reports while actually daydreaming about weather I’d be a Super Hero or Villain, if I had a special power. Ya know, real important stuff. :P

I’m so excited whenever Dragon Con comes around…as always I’m full of so many ideas for pieces I want to get done in time for the Art show, but as always I don’t have enough time for them all. So, for this month, I’ll spend some of my time deciding which pieces will be a part of the show and which ones will have to wait another year. So hard to choose but, alas, I only have the one set of hands…just until I have the surgery to get more accomplished and become Octohand the superhero with eight hands who cranks out piece after piece of beautiful art in minutes. Then no doubt I would get to arting so fast that some unforeseen accident happens leaving me horribly mangled and bitter thus making me decide on a life of crime. Then my name would be OctoCrime…yeah nice ring to that…and I’d terrorize the city with all the mayhem I’d cause.
Wow that was a bit of a strange tangent…. Oh well back to pretending to work.

Thanks for reading, keep checking my blog for updates on my art.
~Caralyn aka Octohand :P

Time to Brag :)

Hey Everyone! Dragon Con is over and things are starting to get back to normal…well all except the whole getting married in a little over a month WHAAAAAT!
Anyway so like always D-Con was fun, each year I meet boocoo bunches of colorful people. As always there were my favorite artists like Rob Carlos and Joseph Corsentino. Also a few 1st years I got the pleasure of meeting, like Marc Robinson, a talented young artist who’s work was just incredible http://marsillustration.blogspot.com/
Now for the part of the blog where I get all braggy…my head is a little bigger since Dragon Con cause, you my friends are now looking at an Award Winning Artist YAY! Yep, I won my 1st award at Dragon Con this year…not just one but two. Oh man was I uber stoked and so surprised. So I’m sitting there at the award ceremony just waiting to hear who the lucky winners are, not at all thinking I would be one of them. BUT HOO they called my name, TWICE YES little darlings! Can you tell I’m excited :) The attendees are the ones that choose the winners so Special Thanks to all of you that voted on my work, let me just tell you that it made this little artist’s day, really did.
Here are my award winning pictures;
Voted Best Horror “They’re Coming” Scratch Art piece in upper corner.
Voted Best Fairy “Steampunk Myxie” Polymer Clay sculpture, no pictures available yet.
Well it was fun as always and best part is now that I’ve won an award, I don’t have to pass a jury to get into Dragon Con 2011, YAH Baby Whoot! Anyways Thanks for letting me Brag.
Tootles!
~Caralyn