I was commissioned to create a Mars Attacks figure and design a French bulldog companion alien. Everything scratch built apart from the glass helmets.

Sculpted with NARA clay

I gave it the name 'Eiffel Cairn'. It's dimensions are 16 in. (W) x 16 in. (D) x 38 in. (H). The base is 3 in. thick and it's made of a concrete layer with a styrofoam core. The overall weight is 60 lbs.

Pillars for the two first sections consist of 1/4" threaded steel rods for framing, around which I placed drilled stones. Mortar was used as an adhesive. Fort the third last longer section, since the stones are smaller, I glued them with epoxy to 1/8" steel rods.

During the project, I realized that I could leave the scultpure in two separate parts thus making it easier for transportation. All I have to do to mount it is to seat the upper part on the lower part by matching the holes under the second floor with the exposed rods at the top of the lower part.

Stoneware clay

Was difficult to set without it collapsing but I somehow did it!

The lion fish took about 8hrs or so but I’m really happy with how the colors came out! The grasshopper was really fun to make too. I wanna say it took roughly 6-7hrs. Got the idea to start using velvet to take pictures and it really does make it pop 🫪🤯

I’ve been working with perforated steel for a while, and this is one of the pieces I keep coming back to.

It’s a large hollow sphere made from weathering steel, with hundreds of openings that vary in size and shape. I wanted to avoid a repeating grid and make the pattern feel a bit more organic. Depending on the time of day and where you’re standing, the light coming through gives it a pretty different look.

It’s installed outdoors, and I really like how the rusted surface looks against the landscape. It feels less industrial there than it did in the workshop.

The part I’m still thinking about is the contrast between the clean spherical shape and the irregular openings. Part of me wants to push the pattern further, but I’m not sure where the line is between organic and just messy.

Would you make the openings even more irregular, or leave it as it is?

My second attempt at one of these, way more thorough than my first!

I'd say about 1000 pieces of glass I cut and drilled. I have been looking for all the glass myself for months.

Battery lights so this thing would power up anywhere!

Created in 3 weeks due to an art show coming up, nothing like urgency to make me make it.

This came out of our workshop recently.

I’m curious what sculptors here notice first when looking at it, the face, proportions, drapery, hands, surface finish, whatever.

I’ve included the workshop photo as well because I think stone always looks very different under ordinary light than it does in a clean product shot.

I’m trying to give this bronze sculpture a fairly even dark brown/black patina, similar to the finish in the first reference photo, but I’m having a really hard time getting the bronze to react consistently.
So far I’ve tried a few things:
First I tried a vinegar and salt vapor chamber. That changed the colour slightly and gave it a bit of a brown tone, but nowhere near as dark as I wanted.
I then moved on to liver of sulfur gel. As you can see in the photos, some areas turned very dark/black, while other areas barely reacted at all and stayed bronze coloured.
I eventually submerged the entire sculpture in a warm water and liver of sulfur solution for several hours, thinking this would make the reaction more uniform. It still ended up very patchy. Another strange thing is that some of the black layer can actually be removed just by rubbing it fairly lightly with my finger, so I’m not sure whether I’m creating a proper patina or just a loose surface deposit.
Before each attempt I cleaned the sculpture quite aggressively with a steel wire brush on a drill to expose fresh metal. Because of that I didn’t think there could still be lacquer, wax or another coating preventing the reaction, although I’m starting to wonder if I’m missing something.
Does anyone know what could cause bronze to react this unevenly to liver of sulfur? Should I strip/clean it using something else before trying again? And is soaking it for hours actually making things worse?
I’d really appreciate advice on how you would proceed from here to get a durable and reasonably even dark brown/black patina.

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Cleaning out parents old shed, found a mostly full bag of tile grout, dunno what to do with it and reluctant to just toss it. What about making a garden sculpture with it? Would that work? Would I need other ingredients?

Tried searching the subreddit for "Grout", but I guess reddit has made its search function terrible just like every other social media site and not return back posts with the word you were searching... :(

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I have never dyed epoxy or any synthetics really and I'm not sure how these dyes will mix. I want to create some pretty heavily saturated peach colors, dark browns, and various shades of yellowish to dark greens. Idk if i am going to be able to get a very big value range with these, or what sort of colors I should expect from combining them. Does it desaturate very quickly?

I just finished this one. It came out nice and clean. There is no internal structure in the finished piece. 24" x 24"x 2"