Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards

 I carved this giant foam orange for an ad for the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Sports Edition! 

 

I can't embed videos from Nick so here it is! Looks like they animated some water drops on it. To be honest, I'm not sure why they didn't just do the whole thing in After Effects!!

My friend Jordan who works at Nickelodeon found it a few weeks later at their offices!!

Febreze Commercial

This is a Ford Focus-turned-dogcar for a Febreze commercial that I worked on back in April at Constructive Display. It's on air now so I'm finally able to post behind the scenes! I mostly worked on the fur fabrication, which is made out of clusters of hemp, and made the crumbs in the scruff.

 

Video below ↓ BLINK AND YOU'LL MISS IT

SoHo Windows

Please check out my window display up at 

E. R. Butler and Co.

55 Prince Street between Mulberry & Lafayette

February 22nd - May 3rd

Photographed by the talented Lauren Coleman

They're alive!

I updated the design and built a news structure for the crabs. 

Here they are on stage at the Ibex Flight final performance:

Texas Blue Crab puppets

I designed these and then built them in 3 days, which was such a (fun) whirlwind!

They're for Heather Henson's show Celebration of Flight: A Crane Story.

Here's me and Heather playing around with them:

They were made out of all natural materials. Here they are in progress... 

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Restoration

This is a commission I did for my friends' dad who won this vintage photograph at an auction. He asked me to digitally restore the discoloration, scratches, scuffs, and to also add tinted accents to mimic old hand painted photography.
 

Work in Progs

9" from nose to tail

sculpy & apoxy sculpt, brass tube

The Jim Henson Company

So excited to be prop building for Sesame Street!

Happy Mother's Day!

Love, Yayi

A day in the life

A normal day at work;
•pinning butterflies & beetles
•gutting scorpions
•patching & painting taxidermy
•custom framing
•cleaning bones
•making a freeze-dried mouse head puppet for a magician... duh
•constructing domed dioramas
•playing with work pets!

She's up!

McNally Jackson bookstore

52 Prince Street

New York, NY 10012

--------------------and a little Before & After!--------------------

A Flaxen Chestnut Wee Bonnie Lass, she is

So for a whole MONTH, I spent my nights and weekends sanding & finishing; the most tedious part of this project by far. Over the past week I've been painting and mixing up my own pigments using Milk Paint. I chose this medium because it gives more of a matte finish and I didn't want it to look like a plastic cast, although, I did have to clear coat it with a subtle sheen to seal in the paint. I'll probably add some detailed gold border, I'm thinking a vine pattern, to the green of the blanket. The round base and brass twisted pole come in the mail this week.

 INSTALLATION IS NEXT WEEKEND. SHE WILL BE IN THE WINDOW DISPLAY OF THE MCNALLY JACKSON BOOKSTORE IN SOHO FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON! 

OH AND HER NAME IS BONNIE

Ghost Horse

One layer of gesso down ^
The white illuminates any imperfections in the surface so from now on you can find me sanding my fingerpads away...