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| Sweet Melons, Miniature Wall Sculpture by Stéphanie Kilgast |
Hello 🙂
Today a bit of the so called creative process, which really is just how I work 😀
While browsing for fruit and vegetables for my daily miniature veggie challenge, (which is a bit on hold right now, but I’ll get back to it) I stumbled upon this beautiful picture by Iain Bagwell:
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| Summer Melons by Ian Bagwell |
Needless to say, I went into a melon and watermelon sculpting mode for the daily challenge.
Lots of juicy fun and it also made me eat more melon during summer than I ever did. Watermelon + melon charentais + nectarine has been a (almost) daily fruit salad. Yum!
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| Various Miniature Melons and Watermelons by Stephanie Kilgast, all part of the dailyminiveggie challenge. |
It was juicy (huhu) and fun, and the image of the melon composition kept getting back into my head.
So I made a few melons and put them aside for a bigger composition.
I needed a background and wanted this composition to be able to hang from a wall.
A few sketches for a rough idea how to make this.
The background had to be polymer clay, so the whole piece would be clay ‘soldered’ instead of glued.
I liked the blue background well enough and so I went for an aged wood.
Btw, want a tutorial about the aged wood made from clay? If yes, say so below 😉
Anyway, so I had the melons, I had the background, I had this beautiful picture of Ian Bagwell, and this is the result.
I put it in my shop, too. Not sure if it’ll sell, but it sure was a fun thing to do 🙂
xx
Stéphanie
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| Sweet Summer Melons by Stéphanie Kilgast |
No Comments “Behind the Scenes of ‘Sweet Summer Melons’”
It's really amazing how you manage to make your sculptures look so realistic!! Now i can only think about how to get home faster so that i can have some more watermelon. Definitely my favorite summer fruit! 🙂
i want the tutorial for faux wood 😀
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très chouette bravo
Not sure I'll ever make faux wood but I sure would be curious to see how it's done 🙂
And watermelons and cantaloupes…yum…
A tutorial about aged wood from polymer clay wolud be great 😀 I prefer the real wood but I'm so curious XD Your watermelons are wonderful 🙂
Just make that tutorial so people can see what insight it takes, and what process they'll have to go through to get this done I'd say?
For the rest: ace work as always, but I think you under-priced the board a bit. It's not that's its small that it is not a big piece of art, lots of skill and great detail were involved…
Haha, yeah pricing is tough business 😀
noted 😉
That counts as a vote then 😛
I think I'll do it then 🙂
merci! 🙂
Curiosity killed the cat, but I am still curious about the wood 🙂
Love how one picture inspired you, and the result is wonderful!
Lovely!
I also live melon and watermelon in the summer! And those little melons of yours really do look juicy! If I would have such a great sculpture at home I would be drolling all winter looking at it 😀 :))
I meant *love melon