Retro Christmas Elves Sculpture Collection

I was so excited one Christmas to create this collection of Handcrafted Elves for my partner's family. The whole collection is based on the 1950s stop motion characters from Rudolph and Santa Clause is coming to town. Each one is based on someone in the family and the whole collection was opened Christmas morning. The Characters are made from Crayola Model Magic air dry compound and a wire skeleton. Please enjoy.

The entire Elf family

Elves are busy preparing Christmas stockings and Ornaments

Laurie and Roy Elf are the ornament painters! They have an excellent eye for detail!

Kate Elf is in charge of making the bird ornaments. The bird holder is custom made.

Karen, Lee and Marion Elf are in charge of the wrapping....what a team!

Vikki and Quentin Elf are in charge of stringing the popcorn!!

Vikki has a beautiful elf curl in her hair.

Emily Elf makes the candy canes.

She carefully twists it up...

Whitney Elf catches snowflakes and hangs them on the tree!

Tri-star Elf in in a bit of a tangle!!

Uh-Oh!

Claire and Jack Elf paint the wooden toys!.

Jack has a mature Elf twist in his hair

Claire has a beautiful Elfen smile!

Laurie and Roy Elf are the ornament painters! They have an excellent eye for detail!

They have an excellent eye for detail!

This is how the process begins, wire, u shaped nails and masking tape body forms.

This is with the model magic on overtop the wire. It is pretty fragile, so always better to add structure where u can.

I make most of my sculptures with this stuff!!! Best to buy white.

Material is pre-primed, Toxic free, lightweight and fairly easy to mold. It feels like silly putty.

24 Hours then its ready to paint.

Painting the Elves!

Using anything to hold things in place...like a mushroom salt shaker!

Me and The Family of Elves!!

Dr.Seuss Whoville Lightup Village

This was a Light-up village I created after watching the movie "The Grinch" with Jim Carey in 2000. It is based partially on the movie and partially on the book. The whole village is made from Crayola Model Magic air dry modeling compound. This cartoon like material really gives the Dr.Seuss feel to the whole project. Each building is about 7" to 9" tall. It fits on the top of a kitchen table and creates a perfect circle. It was a project I really enjoyed doing and colors I really like seeing. Please enjoy the pictures and comments!

The whole town, birds eye view. That's a lot of Model magic!!!

The whos around the Christmas tree in town square.

All the lights in the windows lit up, but the bulbs on the buildings are for decoration

This was from the book

The glowing windows look really cool in the dark

Who-Ville!!!

Pookie - Storybook Character Sculpture

This project was a gift for my mother in Law who used to read the Pookie story books when she was a kid in the 1950's. These books were filled with some amazing illustrations and I knew the sculpture would have to be just as precious.

The Illustrations are beautiful.

The Pookie books of the 1950s

So first I created a custom illustration based on the books from the Pookie series. I tried to capture the same style and magic, while representing it in a way that was going to be easy to sculpt. I think I achieved that. In the end she loved it, and I really enjoyed doing something completely personal. Please enjoy my pictures and comments.

My Design for the model

The Completed Sculpt

Back of Pookie. The wings are irredesent cellophane on wire.

Little window....mushroom houses

Eyelashes are fishing line painted black.

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Evil Dead Cabin Model

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This project was a gift for a friend at DRS Productions. It was for the lobby of the Evil Dead Musical they were producing in vancouver, BC.

Here is the cabin as seen in the movie Evil Dead

I added boards on the windows for added effect with the lighting

Building is shallow to fit on shelf

Leaves are real leaves from Micheal's craft store crumpled up and sprinkled over glue.

It all begins with foam core and twigs

The porch is forced perspective to give false depth when viewed from the front

Stonework is made with Crayola Model Magic air dry compound.

Boards are drawn into foam core and will be painted later.

Roof  tile is cereal box (best thing to keep around for modeling)

I made the shingles smaller as it went up higher to add to the forced perspective effect

Cereal box trim and boards

Twig posts added in

More twigs added as trees. I know there would be light and these twigs will light up nicely.

Paint treatment begins.  Age and weathering.

Notice the chimney is black before stone finishing treatment

Dry brushing always gives an aged and dramatic effect

Tissue paper and glue is placed all over ground to cover surface

Stone paint treatment

Leaves added when glue is still wet...it will vanish later

Leaves really add the Evil Dead feel!!

Me standing with the model for scale! Notice the moon in the tree...

Thanks again you guys, hope you liked it!