Quinton has always been a favorite of mine. Creativity and chaos are such a fun mix in a character.

I did this piece at a time I was feeling insanely ambitious, and I still don't know what I was thinking. Quinton looks dreadful in this piece, the face in particular is beyond hideous. But I think the rest came out rather nicely all things considered.

This was the one and only time I have ever used wire screen in a statue. The wall and window were made with loops of coat hanger wire. I then webbed screen door material across the space and stapled it into place. The boards Quinton is kneeling on and Quinton himself are one nearly continuous mess of hanger wire looped securely into the wall, with more screen wrapped around the boards.

The reason I will never do this again is that I suffered more injury from stray wires poking through the soft Sculpey than on any other artistic project I have ever done.

I'll also never do grass one blade at a time again, not for the wasted effort, but for the fact that it makes it impossible to paint and extremely fragile.

Notice that the grass is made of pink Sculpey 3. Back at the time, I was still using variety packs of the stuff. It came in about 15 colors to the pack, making anything you created a psychedelic wonder by necessity. That wall was really something before it was painted, let me tell you.

The birds have thin painted wires for legs, and he's nailing an actual nail into the Sculpey.

The chest was added as a counterweight so the thing wouldn't simply topple over onto Quinton. In fact, the entire inside was an afterthought. This was going to be a one sided piece, possibly a bookend, and after I realized how unbalanced it was, I had to change the design.

Plan ahead my friends, plan ahead.

I will do bookends someday...