The last of the little spiders…. (for now) (UPDATE)
I’ve finished the last two…..
This one matches the big spider, and the last one I made into a jewelry box.
I sharpened the tips of the legs, to make it a little more menacing than the big version. I suppose if I have to name them, this one is Gertrude.
Here’s the jewelry box version, with the lid off. (Its just a box, so no name for her…) You can see the green patina on the inside of the cavity…
I was a little nervous about how to get a handle on the lid for the jewelry box version, but this weird little Doctor Seuss-style node works well, i think. You can see the seam where the lid meets the body. I’m quite happy with the way it turned out,,,,
I can imagine some lucky lady out there wants a safe place to stash her wedding ring at night. What makes a better guard dog than a two-foot-long metal black widow?
Tell your friends….
they’re all for sale.
UPDATE…..
It looks like I sold Gertrude….
-but the buyer wanted her polished, so here are a few post-polish shots…
I have to admit, even though polishing is a bitch, i really wanted to see at least one of ‘em shiny.
Tags: bronze, little spider
December 11th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Really cool, the photos are really good also i like the blue light cast under the spiders. the jewlery box looks really good also. Great job jon!!
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Alright, these things are cool (in a creepy disturbing way) and I don’t appreciate you sending subliminal messages so I have nightmares. Case in point, I was so nice and cuddle in my warm bed next to my beautiful wife when what should happen? A long polished leg of a spider 2 feet in diameter crawled onto my bed along with one of it’s friends (all of this in my head of course, but no on informed my body that it was just a dream). I did what any sane person would and jumped up to fling them off of my covers and not wait for it to stick its fangs in my leg like in Arachnophobia. I could lie and say I was worried about my wife, but I was more afraid of the two huge ass spiders somewhere at the foot of my bed and wanted to get the light on as quick as possible so that I could at least see my impending doom coming, and that is when the pain started. On my way to the door around the foot of the bed I caught my left toe in one of the wonderfully useless but pretty pillows that adorn our bed when not in use, this in itself hurt a little, but it caused me to trip and catch the corner of the sturdy and sharp wood bed (Damn you Costco!!!) with my right knee. I now laid in a crumbled ball whimpering at the foot of the bed (yes where I threw the spiders) but thankfully the pain in my body caught my brain up to the fact that it was just a stupid dream about some stupid realistic spiders my brother made…..Ass!!! Knock it off with these spiders and start making other cool stuff.