I’ve posted this picture and some others on twitter and flickr in the last few days. One of the new works to be presented at my upcoming show at Toy Art Gallery, La will be a series of tiny blind boxed figures. The sculptures are made in a way that they will fit into a regular 00-sized transparent gelatine capsule. Today I made a first test cast and the result was semi-successful. There are still a lot of bubbles on the surface of the casts.

The material I used is not resin but isomalt, a sugar substitute that is used in a wide range of pharmaceutic and diet products as well as in patisserie and sugar casting art. I have yet to figure out how to cast without any bubbles. Oiling the silicone helps but does not remove all bubbles. It is interesting to note that the bubbles usually only happen on the surface and not on the inside of the isomalt.

And if you’ve been wondering… yes, this whole toy is eatable. All materials used, even the silicone is safe to be used with food. Swallow it and you will never see it again.

In the turmoil of my graduation I completely forgot to post about my participation in the “Heavy Hitterz – Maryland” show @ Art Whino. So, if you’re around there this weekend you should definitely go. The line-up is incredible.

My piece in the show might ring a bell with the regular readers of this blog. It was already shown at the last installation of “Heavy Hitterz” in Manila, Philippines.

I’ve been very bad at updating this blog in the last few months. I have been working steadily on my graduation project which will consist of my own line of resin cast art toys. Here is a first sneak peak.

Today Apple’s iPhone TV commercial “Read” was released. The spotlight features three popular applications for the iPhone and among these is “Classics”. It goes without saying that I am proud to have my cover shown all over the world.

You can see the commercial here: Apple iPhone Commercial “Read”

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Fellow blogger and artist Curtis Lubbe aka collapsibleboat has done something cool. He transformed two of my sketches into something tangible: wonderfully sculpted and then burnt and glazed busts. You can see a few more pictures of Charles and Stephane here and of course don’t miss out on all the other wonderful creatures made by Curtis.