Black Angel Devotion

This is the last of this trio of Devotion sculptures.  The other two are the Blue Angel Devotion and the Leaning Devotion. 

Leaning Devotion

This is another in a series of sculptures called Devotions.  This one had one head on the left side that wasn't attached firmly enough and fell off.  I tried to reattach it with glaze, but it didn't work.

Blue Angel Devotion

This is one of a series of sculptures called Devotions.  They're primitive sculptures incorporating body parts made with a doll mold.

Doll Devotion

This is a sculpture using a mold made from the face of a wooden sculpture found in a thrift store.  It also uses the arms/hands from the prefabricated doll molds.  It has a woman's face within a cobra's hood and four pairs of arms cupping four pairs of breasts.

Source object:

Spiked Mask Devotion

Trinary Devotion

This is a small (6.5 inches tall) clay sculpture of a tree-like entity with three molded doll faces.

Horned Devotion Cup 2

This is the second of the Horned Devotion Cups. I named the original sculptures devotions around Halloween 2011 to differentiate them from the other series of sculptures I had made called atavisms. Someone asked, "What's a Devotion Cup?" and I couldn't think of an answer.

 

Horned Devotion Cup 1

I recently sold a sculpture called the Horned Devotion.  The buyer said she was using it as a ring holder, which never would have occurred to me.  I was intending to make another, similar sculpture and produced a series of cups instead.  This is the first one.  The molds on the side come from resin Halloween decorations.

Zebra Devotion

A few years ago, I made a series of macabre (or comical, depending on your sense of humor) sculptures called "Devotions" intended as Halloween decorations.  They've been selling nicely on Etsy so I continued the series.  I was going to call this one the Scorpion Devotion, but I've since settled on Zebra Devotion.

Devotion Icon/Cultural Icon

The matte red underglaze didn't come out red enough, so I repainted the Devotion Icon's hair with acrylic paint. It makes the piece neither more nor less crappy.




The Devotion Icon joins the cast of the cultural icons of Jersey Shore

Quint Devotion

The Quint Devotion utilizes arms from a set of doll molds and a face from a Disney-branded doll (although I don't recognize the character) with a hard face perfect for mold making, as opposed to those annoying Barbies with their grotesque, squishy faces. I made five molds of varying quality from the doll's face and this devotion utilizes all five.




I stare at you with my cold, dead eyes.

Tree Trunk Devotion

This is the Tree Trunk Devotion, featuring a face, torso, and arms from a set of doll molds.

Fiend Devotion

The Fiend Devotion is part of this year's crop of clay Halloween objects. The Devotions are pieces made with parts from a doll mold, in this case the arms, one of which broke off in the kiln. The head is from a candy container which screams and giggles when jostled in any way (see below).




The head resembles the skull face originally from the film serial The Crimson Ghost, which was recycled in the eighties as the logo and mascot for the hardcore punk band the Misfits.

Devotion Icon

This is the last of the first group of 2011 Halloween Devotions. It's attached to a flat slab of clay and doesn't stand on its own. It has a reddish halo, so it's the Devotion Icon.

Tall Devotion

This is the Tall Devotion, another doll-parts experiment, this time with a baby's face and a distorted (adult) female torso.

Horned Devotion

This is the Horned Devotion, the result of continued experimentation with the doll molds.

Waddling Devotion

The first of the Halloween Devotions is the Waddling Devotion. The doll mold used to make the faces and torso is made for polymer clay. It comes out distorted with the natural, silicon-based clay that I use, which suits my purposes just fine.








The Waddling Devotion is two faced. Here is the other side.

Devotion Coin

I was planning on calling this series of Halloween decorations Doll Atavisms, but I think I like Devotions better.

This is both the most recent in my series of coins and one of the Devotions. The inscription says $∅, implying that it's worth not zero dollars, but the empty set.