#hand cast

[delicateartisantrash]

Hand-cast Pewter :D

Okay so I *wanted* to launch this design under better cirucmstances, but hecc, i am still celebrating xD

BEHOLD. A HANDCAST EAR CUFF AND SPARKLY PENDANT! Note the design on the pendant.... :eyes:

Recognize it? Probably not, it's pretty abstracted, but that design is directly inspired off the two-stroke engine/carborator on my Speedbird BP48-S moped.

That's right. It's NERDY VEHICLE INSPIRED art. I'm predictable I know xD

My friend put it together with the lovely malachite beads and red glass. These two are actually ones I meant to keep for myself, but since they're the only two ready at the moment, up for sale they go!

Here's the red glass version;

I'm starting to post my own original artwork to my Etsy store! Please feel free to check it out, even if you don't choose to shop <3

TheSqueeingOnion - Etsy

Shop Creative crafts and unique artwork by Onion by TheSqueeingOnion located in Stacy, Minnesota. Top shop for gifts. A buyer bought a gift

Interested in ordering custom made art? Check out my art comms! They're open, i've got hungry kitties to feed, and I'd love to make you some kickass stuff.

If I'm being totally honest and up-front, I actually ran out of food for my kitties for about two days two weeks ago while we scraped togeth

[cocaine-angel]

it took me awhile to cut my coke with this cast on so heart this fuckin picture 😡😂

[markonpark]

Cast of Beethoven's hands. 

Vintage picture postcard from Beethovenhaus Bonn.

Posted to my eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/usr/markonparkworld

[napoleondidthat]

Napoleon’s death mask and cast of hand.

[kissbit]

“Sense of Self” Bronze cast of male hands 2017. Art by Cullan Gibbons at Cullanmarie.com, Photographs by Alex Goulart @ GoulArtPhoto.com

[delicateartisantrash]

Beaky Earcuffs

Okay. Adding Beaky on makes sanding the earcuffs totally worth the absolute headache they are to make 😍 (my mom's husband also makes the prettiest dang jewelry with them)

makes such a pretty dainty metal click noise if i jingle it eeeeee

Jewelry asmr lmao 🤣

;v; yes, these are live for sale in my art store! And yep, i make both the pendant and the earcuff!

I buy jumprings though. I ain't got the time to wind and cut those from wire xD

You can also just buy the plain earcuff if you want to hang your own charm off of it.

Pewter Beaky Earcuff & Pendant - Handmade! - Delicate Artisan Trash's Ko-fi Shop

Take a little bit of quiet, cheerful comfort with you wherever you go <3 The item pictured is an example of what you will receive! Please a

No stabby holes in your ears needed to wear these :3 (i don't have pierced ears hehe)

[delicateartisantrash]

Pewter Arrowhead Commission

Woohoo! All finished and packed up for mailing... forgot to take a photo of it actually on the black cotton cord, but here's the project in reverse order.

Final version:

The texture was achieved via three methods; sculpting it right into the clay master (some detail got lost in sculpting both sides); using a dremel with a drill bit to scour some of the 'knapped' spots deeper; and finally, after it was cast and sanded up, I took it to a suitable anvil (in other words the vulcanizer machine that weights a gagillion pounds) and applied percussive creativity.

Aka: I smacked the shit out of it with a hammer. Artfully. XD

And somehow, I managed *not* to bust the loop or dent it too badly. I made three casts I deemed fit enough to take to the finishing stages; I ended up only needing to work one of them over and it was this one :D (the other two got melted right back into the smelter)

(more below the cut)

Here it is right before being polished, fresh from being beat the heck up:

And in the sculpting phase:

I don't have permission to share the original photos of the arrowhead I made a replica of, but the biggest difference is the loop and the texture; I also added a little medicine wheel to one side (which the client wanted to keep; it was placed in a spot wherein if they didn't like it, i could have sanded it smooth and none would be the wiser heehee).

I didn't get what i'd call a perfect replica xD but i think I honored the spirit of the original design well, and while my stone knapped texture isn't mark-for-mark, it still worked out awesome. In any case my client is pleased, so I'll call this a success.

Interested in having your own custom one-of-a-kind pewter pendant sculpted and cast in pewter? DM me :D Commissions for a custom sculpt start at $100, which covers my time and materials (mold silicone & pewter being the biggest two expenses, and then little resource uses in polishing mediums, packing, etc).

I also have drawing commissions open, here! They start at $10 for black and white drawings and go up.

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[napoleondidthat]

What's the creepiest/weirdest Napoleon-related thing you've heard about or seen?

There have been a few things:

1. Napoleon writing to Josephine not to bathe before he arrived to see her. Whatever floats your boat man.

2. Napoleon’s death mask and the many different versions there are out there. Which one is real? All of them? None of them? If the “official” death mask is not Napoleon, who is it? Ciprianai as some have hypothesized?

3. Cast of Napoleon’s hand. Some people say there is no record they took a cast of Napoleon’s hand. But it’s in the Army Museum and billed as his nonetheless. If it’s not his, who’s is it? And I have a copy of it on my shelf. Who’s hand is on my shelf if not Napoleon. And it was a bit of a creepy thing to own as well, though now it’s one of my favorites :).