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Patrick Star + Krabby Patty wood toy

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  Here's a special toy I made for my wife to give away at the SpongeBob Crew White Elephant gift exchange. Putting it together and painting it was fairly painless, but then came the varnish... And for some reason this thing decided to wreck my shit. I almost pulled an all nighter trying to get it done in time!! But the end result was really cute so, oh well? Take a gander at these lovely pictures my wife took for me (plus one that I took of the drawing I did before making the toy).

Post-it art for Giant Robot Post It Show 21

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  Take a gander at the post-its I made for Giant Robot's Post It Show 21. These were an attempt to blend my toy art and comic art together. And I think the attempt was pretty successful, but what do I know? Well, one thing I do know is that my wife, Lauren, came up with the caption for the star post-it :->

"Chibi Totoro Sits" wood diorama for Giant Robot Totoro Show 2025

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  My group exhibition pieces keep getting smaller and smaller because I have less time to make them in between all of the other tiny toys I gotta put together. So for this piece I chose Chibi Totoro since they are just a little guy anyway, you know? The Giant Robot Totoro Show opens on Saturday, November 29th if you'd like to see this piece in person :->

"Nice to know you" wood diorama for Dino Show 2025 at Giant Robot

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  I grew up in the 80s and 90s so a love of dinosaurs was pretty much baked into my DNA. My favorite dino is the Brontosaurus who like Pluto (the planet) was demoted and might not actually be a dinosaur anymore? But here's a tiny diorama featuring a Brontosaurus that I made for Giant Robot's Dino Show which opens on Saturday, November 8th. I hope you get a chance to see this piece in person because it is cute :-> I forgot to take a bunch of WIP snaps of this thing but here are before and after pictures of it painted.

"Please stop fighting, cuties!" wood diorama behind-the-scenes pics

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Here are some process pictures of this piece I made for an Italian Horror themed group art show. It was originally gonna be a full shark body with a zombie riding it, but I didn't have enough time to do all of that so I adjusted as I went! I also gave up on the shark holding the severed arm in its mouth because it crowded out the lil zombie head too much. I like where it all landed though. What do you think?

"Please stop fighting, cuties!" wood diorama for Crimson Shadows Italian Horror Cinema art exhibition at Q Pop

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"Please stop fighting, cuties!" is the name of my piece for Q Pop's Crimson Shadows Italian Horror Cinema art exhibition. I chose a scene from Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2 (aka  Zombie here in the states) in which a zombie fights a shark?? Umm have I mentioned how much I love Italian horror movies before? This diorama turned out exactly as I had hoped it would. Small and good! This exhibition opens on Saturday, October 25th with a reception from 7-9pm. Head over to Q Pop to take a peek at the nifty art!

"Scary Friend" wood sculpture behind-the-scenes pics

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Lookit! I remembered to take some WIP shots of the wooden sculpture I made for Giant Robot's Yokai Show. I forgot to take a picture of the piece right after it was covered in gesso, but otherwise this is a good run through of the stages this went through to become a finished piece. Pretty exciting stuff, eh?

"Scary Friend" wood sculpture for Yokai Show at Giant Robot

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"Scary Friend" is my piece for Giant Robot's Yokai Show group art exhibition. It's based on the radical kasa-obake yokai. I was initially worried about painting it in these colors because I didn't want anyone to think of the 1990s Charlotte Hornets, but my wife didn't even know what I was talking about so I figured nobody else would care either. The show opens on Saturday, October 18th but here are some other very good pictures my wife took to tide you over until then :->