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My favorite place for a nap is for prompt #9-Favorite. This sofa on our enclosed porch is where I can go and take a nap quite easily!
[b]About the (conversion) project:[/b]
After a long hiatus an anime character model again! This Rei Ayanami figure was inspired by a photo-realistic illustration I found while browsing A.I.-generated artwork at playground.com, and the respective artwork was created by a prompt from someone called “YCTt”.
I liked the less anime-esque style of the character, and the red-and-white plugsuit design with many colorful contrasts, and saved the artwork as an inspiration – until I recently felt the urge to build “something different” from my usual what-if military vehicles and went through my stock of resin anime character kits to find a suitable “canvas”.
I eventually settled upon a 1:6 scale model of Rei Ayanami in her authentic white plugsuit, even though it’s a more anime-ish rendition and not so “realistic” as the A.I. illustration. The kit is just a recast and I had preferred a smaller scale, but I found that the figure’s upright standing pose and the plugsuit’s rather simple style would be a good starting basis.
The parts were cast well, without bubbles and with almost no seams, but details and edges not particularly crisp. The white resin material was not very dense either, everything felt light and a bit delicate – but not brittle. However, the kit was quite cheap, and you get what you pay for – and that was/is not bad at all, esp. as a conversion basis.
After cleaning the fit of the major parts (torso and legs were a single piece, and both arms, together with an area of the flanks, cut out along natural seams of the plugsuit) turned out to be very good, so that the arms could be worked on and especially painted separately, to be assembled later without PSR!
For display I built a neutral 4x4” base from a piece of laminated chipboard, pimped with edge band. A 2.5mm iron wire was mounted as a figure holder, and the same material was also used to strengthen the connections of the figure’s major components. Once completed the base was painted with semi-matt acrylic black paint from a rattle can.
The figure was built mostly OOB, I just made some minor tweaks. One fundamental thing I changed was the head position. The original figure looks over the left shoulder, but I wanted to present her later in a frontal view, so that the eyes should rather look forward. That was not so easy to realize, because the neck had to be modified, with a wedge-shaped plug under the chin to lift the face into a proper new position. This was sculpted with 2C putty around the head’s iron wire connector and some fine acrylic putty for a smooth finish.
From that point on head and body developed separately. The boxy things under the breast were removed, and instead I sculpted a W-shaped ledge, again with 2C putty, to come closer to the A.I-generated, somewhat “cleaner” version of the plugsuit.
The head was taken OOB, but the eyes required some attention, because they were sculpted in a rather protruding fashion, and overall it did not have much resemblance to the original character. However, I did not dare to take the risk of physically modifying the eyes and the IMHO too pronounced lips – a decision that later turned out to be better than expected (if you do not cling too much to the real Rei Ayanami character and her traits).
Head, body and arms were worked on and painted separately – the arms made it insofar easy as they were molded with the body’s armpit sections, using natural edges of the plugsuit to hide the kit’s seams.
Painting started with an overall coat of grey acrylic primer on everything, followed by a foundation with RAL 9002 (Grauweiß) on arms and body, plus some Tamiya TS-26 (Pure White) post-shading “from above” to support light effects. This was not really necessary, though, because the figure is at 1:6 scale (1’ tall!) large enough to produce realistic light and shade effects on its own.
In the meantime the face was spray-painted with a foundation in Tamiya TS-77 (Flat Flesh) and some shading with Vallejo “Pale Flesh” from a rattle can. The lip’s line was laid out with thinned Humbrol 70 (Brick Red), and at first I painted the lips themselves in a rather dark and reddish skin tone – but that looked too exaggerated and obtrusive, esp. for Rei’s introvert and reclusive character. This was later changed to a much lighter skin tone, similar to the rest of the face.
The eyes were experimentally created with the help of decals; I had ordered a set of generic anime eye decals of various sizes and colors before the build, and luckily there was a pair of suitably red female eyes in the set that I tried. To make them fit properly onto the face I separated the yes from their brows, though, and the rather tall eyes had to be trimmed to fit on/into the sculpted eyes sockets in the resin face. Weird task, but it wok4ed better than expected, also because of a rather sturdy but flexible clear carrier film, reminiscent of vintage Matchbox kit decals.
However, this was not the end concerning the eyes: I added some eyelashes and eyelids with black paint, some lighter red sections to the pupils and small white light reflexes. In the end the combined method of decals plus painting worked well, with a presentable result.
After the face had been finished it was sealed with matt acrylic varnish and the “hair helmet” had to be mounted and PSRed around it – another delicate task, followed by paint work on the pale blue hair for which I used Humbrol 47 as basis, mixed with Cobalt Blue for some deeper areas and hair strands and with some white for highlight, tips and an artificial light reflex halo around the upper head, frequently seen on the animated character.
In the meantime body and arms received contrast areas in deep red (Revell 34), Garter Blue (Humbrol 221) and Oxford Blue (Humbrol 104). This stunt required a lot of masking, and the demarcation lines between the red and the white sections on torso and legs were later added with generic 2mm black decal stripes. After a light black ink washing to emphasize edges and recesses the suit’s wrinkles were post-shaded with lighter shades of their foundations – only as a subtle effect to add a bit more materiality to the figure. The “00” on the breast was created with 45° USAF letters from an aftermarket decal sheet, while the large “0” on the backpack was laid out manually with black acrylic paint.
A lot of detail paint and corrections followed, everything was sealed with a coat of matt acrylic varnish, and the figure was finally assembled.
A tough project, and at first I was a bit disappointed by the kit’s face which does not resemble the anime Rei Ayanami at all. However, once completed, the face and the figure’s expression matches the A.I.-generated, rather realistic picture of the character more than expected, as if the figure would rather be a physical model of that picture than of the “real” anime Ayanami. Odd, but a pleasant and conciliatory outcome of a quite challenging conversion project. And the colorful plugsuit variant looks pretty good, too.
Day 1 Prompt: It's a Matter of Taste, Scrap about food...
Journaling Reads:
As St. Patrick’s Day, 2011 approached, my heart was heavy. This would be the first St. Patrick’s Day where I wouldn’t be able to call my dad and ask him to make some corned beef and cabbage for me as I had done for so many years in the past. Having lost a parent herself, Mair knew how hard this first year without him would be. To boost my spirits, she offered to throw a St. Patrick’s Day EVE party, complete with corned beef and cabbage. Look at the joy in her face as she stirs the pot! She is a fabulous cook, a self-taught chef, and an amaaaaazing hostess. The corned beef and cabbage (plus potatoes) were out of this world! She told me later that night that she felt Bennie’s presence as she prepared the meal through out the day. I could truly feel his love and warmth shining through the food. Being surrounded by this compassionate crowd and the ultimate comfort food (Hello! Guinness chocolate cupcakes, I love you!), made the loss of my dad easier to bear on this first St. Paddy’s without him here. Thank you Laura, Mair, Shelley, and Amy for lifting me up with your food and bevvies. 3/16/11
A fisherman prompting and standby his cast a fishing net while sunrise, seeking breakfast for this family
Shoot from Penang woodbridge, Malaysia
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I changed the prompt for List 8 from 'Childhood CHORES' to 'Childhood GAMES' because I didn't have too many chores as a child, and I'd rather reminisce on the fun things I did as a kid. :)
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Louis Comfort Tiffany in New London
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This Gilded Age permanent collection gallery includes stained-glass windows, lamps, favrile glass vessels, silver, jewelry, paintings, archival photographs, and other objects, many of which come from Tiffany family descendants. Louis Comfort Tiffany’s parents hailed from Killingly, CT, and although they lived in New York City, the family often visited relatives in Norwich and New London. Louis’s first wife, Mary Goddard, was from Norwich, as was Louis’s brother-in-law Alfred Mitchell, who married his sister Annie. The Mitchells acquired a home in New London overlooking the Thames River, and Louis and his family were frequent visitors there in the mid-to-late 1870s and 1880s.
Tiffany in New London features three stained-glass windows from New London that anchor the gallery, evoking the contemplative memorial and ecclesiastical environment for which they were created. The local patrons who commissioned these and other objects offer insight into a key period in New London’s history, when the region flourished and was a popular seaside resort for the wealthy. The stained-glass windows also illustrate Louis Comfort Tiffany’s many technical innovations in glassmaking, as do examples of Tiffany Studios’ lamps and favrile glass. Tiffany was an artist and designer of incredible breadth who worked in a range of styles and materials. He traveled extensively and was influenced by the art and culture of the Middle East, Asia, and Europe. Related Aesthetic-era and Art Nouveau fine art and decorative arts are included to show their influence and overlap with Tiffany’s innovative designs.
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The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is home to a collection of more than 18,000 works.
The Museum opened in March 1932 with only 13 objects from the permanent collection on view. Of the original 13 on display, four were of Asian or ancient origin, four were European sculptures – two of which were quite modern – and five were European works on paper dating from the 14th to the 18th centuries. Today, the collection has grown to include more than 18,000 paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, furniture and decorative arts as a result of active acquisitions by the Museum and generous donations to the Lyman Allyn.
The collection spans a 2,600-year period, ranging from ancient Greek and Roman artifacts to works by living artists, with particular strengths in American and European art from the 18th and 19th centuries. Notable artists in the collection include Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, John Copley, Winthrop Chandler, Paul Revere, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Sol LeWitt, Eugene Delacroix, Charles LeBrun, J. A. D. Ingres, and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, among many others.
The 18th Century
New London’s deep water harbor has driven the regional economy since colonial times, connecting southeastern Connecticut to the broader Atlantic world. In the 18th century, local shipping merchants specialized in the West Indies trade, exporting livestock and food to Caribbean plantations in exchange for sugar, molasses, and rum. Economic growth and stability in the second half of the century enabled colonists to acquire a greater range of household goods—textiles, silver, glass, ceramics, furniture, and paintings among them. Some goods were imported, while others were produced in the home or by craftsmen and artists, whose work and skill expanded to meet increasing demand. The Tea Table and the painting of Sarah Deshon (from the same family) tell a local story, showing how the Deshons of 18th century New London cemented their status and wealth from trade with objects that conveyed their social and economic standing.
Connecticut played a key role in the American Revolution, as political tension over taxation and colonial governance led to war with Britain. With the British headquartered in New York City, New London’s harbor was an ideal site from which to initiate naval attacks on British loyalists. New London’s privateering (the use of authorized private ships to attack and loot enemy ships) prompted British troops to retaliate, burning New London in the Battle of Groton Heights on September 6, 1781.
Daniel Huntington’s portrait of Abigail Dolbeare Hinman, 1854–56, recreates an episode from this event, showing Hinman standing with her musket in hand, attempting to shoot Benedict Arnold, who can be seen through the window, sitting on horseback.
The 19th Century
As the young nation sought to define itself in the first half of the 19th century, artists created objects and paintings to unite Americans around common ideals of liberty, justice, and hope for the future. Some objects were overtly patriotic, while others were less direct. Hudson River School landscapes, for example, expressed pride in the nation’s natural resources, with scenes from the woods, rivers, and mountains of the northeast standing in for all of America, suggesting the promise of land, the spread of civilization, and the unique, almost spiritual quality of the landscape.
Artists also traveled to Europe to study art and see the sights, painting mountains and classical ruins, as Thomas Cole did in his the majestic view of Mount Etna, drawing visual connections between the ideals of the newly minted American Republic and those of classical antiquity.
Steam power, the railroad, the telegraph, and improved roads and canals ushered in the age of industrialization, facilitating the mass production and transportation of goods. Whereas many objects had been crafted by hand in the previous century, the 19th century saw the rise of goods made with machines. Connecticut mills and factories produced munitions, tinworks, clocks, furniture, and textiles, among other things. Early factories were fueled by whale oil, an important industrial lubricant and lamp fuel supplied by whaling, the most significant part of New London’s economy for several decades.
Isaac Sheffield, who painted portraits of many local whaling captains, portrayed five-year-old James Francis Smith shortly after his return from a long whaling voyage in 1837 with his father, New London whaling captain Franklin Smith. They had gone to Desolation Island in the South Seas, and his portrait shows him wearing a penguin skin coat, with the Chelsea, the ship his father had captained, in the background.
The United States grew dramatically over the course of the 19th century, expanding westward and growing in population with waves of immigration. Regional differences and tension over slavery and states’ rights erupted in the U.S. Civil War (1861–65). In New London County, a number of textile mills were built to supply the Union troops. After the war, New England’s mills became an industrial powerhouse, employing and sustaining entire towns.
The 20th Century
In a period of tremendous growth and change, artists looked forward and back, charting new terrain with abstraction, while revisiting their artistic roots through innovative approaches to traditional genres such as landscape, still life, and portraiture.
The early 20th century was a time of rapid expansion and industrialization fueled in part by waves of immigration. A decade of exuberance followed World War I before the stock market crash of 1929 initiated the Great Depression of the 1930s. Abstraction and European modernism filtered into American art, while a realistic, regional style simultaneously held sway, resulting in a mix of subjects and styles.
Many artists were drawn to the energy and bustle of the modern city, awash in crowds and transformed by industry, skyscrapers and the automobile. The city could be intense, noisy, and oppressive, however, and some artists retreated during the summer to Connecticut art colonies to paint peaceful landscapes and scenes of leisure. Guy Wiggins drew inspiration from both the city and the country, painting impressionistic views of New York in winter, as well as scenes such as Church on the Hill, ca. 1910–12, showing country life in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Beatrice Cuming’s painting, Chubb, shows a submarine being built in Groton, Connecticut during World War II. Cuming’s canvas affirms New London’s long connection to the sea and celebrates industry at a time when the nation was consumed with the war effort.
Post-War Art
In the prosperity and growth of the post-World War II era, a multiplicity of artistic trends and styles arose, dominated by abstraction. New York emerged as the center of the international art world. The 1960s and ‘70s witnessed cultural upheaval as people of color and women sought equal rights and many protested the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. The prevalence of advertising and mass media led artists to explore new themes, performance, and technology, questioning the definitions of art and the idea of originality.
Since the 1980s, the postmodern art world has been in flux, and issues of gender, race, politics, and cultural identity have been at the fore in our globalized and technology-driven world. In A.R.T. (in the new world order), 1994, African-American artist Willie Cole uses text on a blackboard to create an acrostic poem of sorts, using various word associations and erasure to define and comment on art and culture.
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I'm at Max Spielmann within Tesco to print out 30 photos.
At the end of the week I'm off an special visit to a ex-work colleague who is now suffering from Dementia. These photos will form a photo album that I will give him.
Day 05 - Movement // I just love toys and items that are solar powered. They're usually rather adorable or useful and in this case, Piplup is just adorable. I can't remember the proper name for these, though he bobs his head from side to side when his mini solar panel is in direct sunlight. So, since I was looking through my blogs, an idea popped in my head to take a picture of this guy bobbing. You can't exactly see it in the picture since it's not a gif, I might have to make one someday.
photo 1: " A picture speaks a thousand words and leaves memories that last a lifetime." ~Amanda Wolff
photo 2: "The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." ~Dorothea Lange
photo 3: "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" ~Vincent VanGogh
This is a more believable shot. When Cluze first showed it to me, I couldn't tell that it was a fake.
Built between 1952 and 1963, this concrete dam was built to prevent the further erosion of the limestone layer beneath Saint Anthony Falls and the natural process that would have led to the falls becoming a series of rapids useless for hydropower purposes, a process which had accelerated due to industrial development around the falls in the late 19th Century, leading to the construction of the first dam in the 1850s, and the installation of a timber apron over the falls in 1870. The timber apron was maintained until 1952, when a major flood heavily damaged it, prompting the construction of a more permanent and durable concrete apron over the falls, as well as the present dam and lock structure to allow for navigation upstream of the falls. The dam stands 14 feet high over the 35-foot falls, increasing the total vertical drop to 49 feet.
Prompt: Washi Tape (and day 19: gallery inspiration)
So I've been out for a couple days, and I used today's and yesterday's prompt together... Thanks Lynette for a beautiful inspiration page! xoxo
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And I finally used some of my "collected" stickers from about 3 years ago!