Category: Soft Sculpture

A Day In The Life

A job came in on Friday, I opened it on Monday and it was 50 spot illustrations due in one week. Fifty of anything takes forever, so I got busy, and then the phone rang. It’s the music leader at my church. The bass… Continue Reading “A Day In The Life”

It’s Alive… And Eating Popcorn!

Jones brothers, sisters, inlaws, outlaws, nieces, nephews, kids and miscellaneous others traveled from all over the country to my Mother’s house last week for the 4th of July. With over 30 people in Mom’s house a bunch of us had to find other places to… Continue Reading “It’s Alive… And Eating Popcorn!”

The Mighty Ducks

Back when I was building my foam stop-motion puppet, I wondered if there might be another way to create a moving character. I decided to throw a couple of things together that I’ve toyed around with for years… an aluminum armature and socks. I… Continue Reading “The Mighty Ducks”

Sock Monkey 2.0

Some people are consumed with trying to build a better mousetrap. Me? I’m consumed with trying to build a better sock monkey.

Missing Number

I still have never seen the movie NINE, but I really liked the characters I saw in the trailer for it and I made this one from memory.

RainbowTop

Bugster

MonkeyGram

Blue Sock Dog

Old Number One

This was my very first attempt at making a Sock Creature.

Green Flying Monkey

Last Sunday the early football games on tv were kinda lame, so I grabbed a needle and thread and whipped out a new flying sock monkey…

A Little Off Course

Sometimes these things go exactly as planned, and sometimes they… well… yikes…

Happy Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day can get kinda weird around our house and it was no exception this year with the appearance of this little knucklehead…