I'm so glad that I took a break in painting for a few hours this weekend to mess around with some of the materials I had piling up around me at my drawing table. First, I made a house out of a matchbox (which is, for whatever reason, one of my favorite little objects, though I don't think I've found a good use yet for all the ones that I've saved):
It was fun to troubleshoot how to get all the pieces to work together (esp the peak of the roof, where the actual matchbox ends and it's just craft paper). The shingles are chopped-up paint chips (another material I love & can't find a good use for) that were mod-podged into a bit of a sheen. Those little curtains are tissue paper and the windows are actually cut open.
The plan is to make some tiny scenes on illustration board to put inside the matchbox, perhaps like a little dollhouse. (yes, totally useless, but just the sort of tiny silliness that I love to have around and look at every now and then.)
Once I finished the house, I decided to make a ghost for the house out of shrinky-dinks, a sheet of which I have had laying around but had never used yet. Much to my happy surprise, it was a load of fun to make, and gave me the opportunity to make even SMALLER characters than normal. I love it.
One ghost led to a cast of characters, naturally...
Right now they all live in the matchbox, for lack of a better keeping place. I would like to put them in my makeshift wunderkammer, but sometimes I knock into it, and needless to say if they fall off into the couch or somewhere like that they are tiny enough to be lost forever.
I made that radish for my SO, who didn't recognize it as one because, of course, being German he likes the long white kind rather than the squatty American ones. Oh well, have a fish instead.
I'll update on my silly crafts exploits when I finish the interior scenes of the house. In the meantime, the house lives in a little corner of my kitchen.
(It should be little surprise that every corner of my apt is knick-knacked. I'm very tidy, but... I cultivate visual distractions, let's say. I can't seem to help it.)
