Celebrating Shark Week 2012 With A New Sculpture

It's been awhile since I've sculpted a shark. And since August 12th kicks off the start of Shark Week 2012 : Shark Week : Discovery Channel I thought it was the perfect time to return to one of my favorite subjects! It is always fun rummaging through my reference materials hunting up shark photos.

Finding a carving pattern for a Great White shark would help guide my work.

Making the armature for my sculpture out of styrofoam would save on clay and weight!

Mounting the styrofoam sections on aluminum wire which is bolted to a base.

Cutting the styrofoam to give the shark a gentle curve.

           Starting to add Apoxie clay.

Tracing the fin pattern onto my clay fin.

Fins ready for carving and refining.

Pectoral fins and dorsal fin primed before final sanding. I'll be posting more photos as work on my Great White shark sculpture progresses.

Blue Mohawk For Charity

 I've mean meaning to share the pictures of the mohawk I recently got to help raise funds for The St.Baldrick's Foundation for childhood cancer research. Brian Blacknick - A St. Baldrick's Participant


The first thing we had to do was bleach my hair so the blue dye would show more vividly.

After washing out the bleach my wife Diane sectioned off my hair to try and get a straight mohawk line. Not an easy task since I have 3 or 4 cowlicks struggling for control of my hair growth pattern at any given minute!

Diane used a nylon artists brush to apply the Special Effects Blue Haired Freak dye to my hair. After 30 minutes I washed it out. Whoa! My hair was some kind of major blue!
I thought it was a little too long for a mohawk so my Mother and Diane snipped away to try and get it the right length.

The ladies used what styling gunk they had on hand but the "hawk" wouldn't stay in place!

The next day I picked up a tube of Got2b glued spiking glue. The tube said "screaming hold". They aren't kidding! A little of this stuff and I had a gravity defying mohawk in no time. I probably could have run head long into a wall and not dented this bad boy!

I wear hats a great deal of the time and I haven't figured out how to pull that off without flattening my mohawk. It might need to be taken down another notch or two!

My Interview At Amaltheas Attic

Florence Ivy was kind enough to interview me on her blog Amaltheas Attic about my fundraising effort to raise money for childhood cancer research. If you'd like to take a look here is a link to the interview:

Helping Out The Sick Kids! « Notes From The Attic  I'm still shy of my fundraising goal. I'd appreciate any help in the way of donations and by spreading the word by sharing this info. Thanks!

Kong Gets Some New Teeth

It was suggested to me by Paul Gill of Gillman Productions that to make creating a mold of Kong as easy as possible the bottom jaw would need to be removable. So here is some photos of Kong's new bottom jaw and his new teeth.

What Color Should I Dye My Hair For My Mohawk?

I'm closing in on the halfway mark of my fundraising goal for The St.Baldrick's Foundation for childhood cancer research. So far I've auctioned two pieces of artwork! And a third sculpture will be sold this Thursday. If I can reach $1000.00 by June 28th I'll dye my hair and shave it into a mohawk.

I have a poll up on my Facebook fanpage to pick what color I should dye it. I'm asking everyone to pop on over and cast your vote for the color you'd like to see. And if you'd like leave a comment so I know what color you picked:   https://www.facebook.com/BlacknickSculpture Thanks!

Nautical Art Auction

I wanted to mention that I will be having a nautical themed auction of my work starting May 14th and running through May 24 2012. Twenty five percent of the auction proceeds will go to benefit The St.Baldrick's Foundation for childhood cancer research.

 If I'm able to raise $1000.00 dollars by June 28th I've promised to dye my hair and have it shaved into a mohawk!

If you know of anyone that likes artwork of sharks, whales, or sea turtles I'd appreciate it if you could share my blog link with them.

The sculptures can be viewed at the following links:

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Thanks for looking!





 
 
 
 

 
 

I'm Interviewed by Holly of Holly's Horrorwood!

I wanted to share my recent interview that is posted over at Holly's Horrorland.

Holly's Horrorland: Ask The Artist: Brian Blacknick