BLUEBLOOD - deathray details.
Just a few more reference shots before she is gone forever.
Sold to Gene Mollica for prop on his next cover painting for an upcoming steampunk novel.
Go Gene!
Monday, February 20, 2012
blue blood
steampunk armband
Steampunk arm band commissioned piece. Fantastic cover artist, Gene Mollica is combining this with my deathray, "Blueblood" and a beautiful model to create his latest book cover. Will post when it is completed ...
until then, check out his amazing portfolio.
www.genemollica.com
Friday, February 10, 2012
STEAMPUNK-BOOK-promo
I am invited to be a part of another anthology ...
STEAMPUNK
A Complete Guide to Victorian Techno-Fetishism
compiled by Vienna Von Schwarz
Scheduled to release August 2012
"Steampunk" explores this fascinating counterculture, transporting the reader
on an eclectic odyssey into a weird and wonderful world of dirigibles,
vaudeville and steam-powered ray guns. It celebrates the lives of steampunk’s
heroes and villains who are as diverse as they are pioneering. Isambard
Kingdom Brunel, Ada Lovelace, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Aleister Crowley
sit alongside body snatchers Burke and Hare and fashionistas Lady Gaga and
Alexander Mcqueen, creating a spellbinding mix of science fiction, Victorian
fact and contemporary kookiness.
contents -
Introduction: The story of steam, Why steampunk?
The Steampunk Code:
Chivalry vs. ‘Chavlry’.
Protosteampunks to include Leonardo Da Vinci, Al Jazari and Heron of Alexandria.
Inventors, Engineers and Industrialists: to include Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell and Ada Lovelace.
Explorers and Aviators: to include Count von Zeppelin, Jean-
Pierre Blanchard and Anna Mitchell-Hedges.
Authors: including H.G. Wells,
Jules Verne and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Artists: to include Richard Dadd,
William Morris, Doctor Evermore and Jake Von Slatt.
Fashionistas: including
Jean-Paul Gaultier and Alexander McQueen.
Steampunk Food: to include
Herr Steinbeck and Heston Blumenthal.
Steampunk Villains: including Aleister Crowley and Giovanni Aldini.
The Sound of Steampunk: to include Abney Park and Unextraordinary Gentlemen.
Steampunk at the Movies: including Studio Ghibli and Terry Gilliam.
(Subject to change.)
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
dr-lazarus-armour
"... MacCruimin joined my other two squires in attaching the pauldrons, rerebrace, vambrace, couter and gauntlets - my sarcophagus was almost complete. I was wrapped in skin and skin and skin again - leather and steel and more than steel - yards of tubes and wires - hydraulic arteries and electric veins.
I tested my body; shoulders, arms and hands, inside the robot I wore. Each movement pushed a trigger, triggered a lever, tripped a switch - and the leviathon was alive - mimicing my slightest gesture. Thirty-two months to find 13 perfectly matched estonium spheres, so very evenly spaced. They took the bulk of the weight - steam power took the rest.
I felt the temperature rise as the lifesblood of my machine coursed through her - vaporized water at no less than 500 degrees. Now I had my muscle.
I realized my three friends had worked steadily without word until at last, mooring chains were removed -
"Tha's it then.", MaCruimin broke the silence.
Blackwater walked up to me like a priestess at a temple. She held out my helmet - a final offering for an uneasy god. I looked for her smile to send me on my way. If she only knew what power she held - more than my contraption - more than the sum of its rivets and gears.
But it was too much for me to ask - from the last moment we may have together. I tried to smile - maybe to reassure her - maybe to simply spark a mirrored response.
I couldn't smile either.
"Here is where I should tell her how much she means to me - Here is where I should tell her I love her. ..."
I put my helmet on and felt a bead of moisture run the length of my cheek.
I am sure it was perspiration."
an excerpt from my steampunk novel,
"Broken Toys"
also cool: Had way too much fun debuting the costume in the Saturday hallways of Archon 35. Thanks to everyone who took the time to photograph and/or compliment ...
HAND-of-GLORY
As with most legends, The "Hand of Glory" has several similar versions. Some say it is in the beginning to be made with the severed hand of a criminal(or a thief or a murderer).
Some say it is to be the left(latin - sinister) hand, some say the hand that "did the deed".
The hand is to be taken when the criminal is still hanging at the crossroads and some add that a lock of hair will also be needed. The latter to be made into wick(s), for then the hand becomes a sort of candle. A candle that lights a household for the bearer only, while it keeps sleeping residents asleep and holds any others paralyzed ... it is of course a favourite among thieves, but often at a great cost.
I have made this version in the newest of scientific fashion - guaranteed to light and shine brighter than the old temperamental dark magics ...
Of course I would never use such a villainous tool. I just wanted to satisfy an inventor's curiosity. Then again, one never knows when such a thing might come in ... "handy."
SIGN-Broken Toys
The sign read "Delicious Artwerks - Dark Delights - Dangerous Curiosities". The wall around it was made with rusted metal wire and crushed satin(the color of blood) and there were everywhere, so many "Broken Toys", we could hardly contain our lust for the intensely unnecesscary; death rays and lightning sabres, ancient masques and odd signage, a hand of glory, a typewriter that wrote in magnified images of the past and future, and a lamp made from a human skull ...
It was as beautiful as a funeral dirge, as a black rose ... as a death rattle.
We brought all of our favourite "Broken Toys" to ARCHON 35 this year. My wife and I were invited guests. I had over 30 pieces in the art show and a table in "Artist Alley". ... also ran the new armour through her paces - to much success. See other ARCHON entries for more twisted details.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
ARCHON Table
Our table in "Artist's Alley" at ARCHON 35. Since I had my new illustrations and paintings in the art show, I displayed the sculpts and mods at the table.
Had much fun talking to the fandom and getting so much positive feedback on the masks and signs and other creepy, cranky things I am driven to build when no one is looking ...
Fans took home a big chunk of the new "Steampunk Sketchbooks" (both I and II)
and we completely sold out of "1000 Steampunk Creations".
yes.
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