{"id":596,"date":"2022-11-12T22:18:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T03:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/?p=596"},"modified":"2022-11-12T22:18:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T03:18:05","slug":"goblins-creatures-character-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/goblins-creatures-character-sculptures\/","title":{"rendered":"Goblins, Creatures & Character Sculptures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Every few years, I would have my students watch the movie\u00a0Labyrinth<\/em><\/a> and the documentary about the making<\/em> of this fun fantasy movie that starred David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly. A Jim Henson and George Lucas production in the mid 1980s, it was made a time when artists and craftspeople were still creating most of the “special effects” for films. <\/p>\n\n\n

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As always, this movie inspired creative thinking as students designed and made a variety of goblins, creatures and characters of their own. Some years they made their sculptures from paper-mache and\/or cloth in the style of Dan Reeder’s “Screamers<\/a>“, and some years they created an armature of wire and aluminum foil which they covered with a thin layer of Sculpey<\/a> synthetic clay. <\/p>\n\n\n

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