Count by Dan Crowley Finger Puppet

Description

Count by Dan Crowley Finger Puppet, is wonderful hand sculpted artwork that is the perfect fun little sculpture for your desk and is also a finger puppet!  Created for you by Chicago based artist Dan Crowley who creates each character with its own personality and unique attributes. Dan shares in the naming process with the collector letting you become involved in the artwork process thou I could not resist calling him “Count” Dan would like you to give him a real name! The head is hand sculpted from Polymer clay so each color change is a different piece of clay and then oven baked to perfection. Cotton costume added complete with a sinister cape. Each piece is than completed on a wood stand that has been signed by Dan.

Artist Statement:

Although I have been artistically motivated for my entire lifetime, I found my chosen medium, Fimo-clay, in 1992, when a friend gave me some as a present. First marketed in craft stores as a play-time clay for children, Fimo is available in colors that can be blended and then subsequently baked in a convection oven to harden. From the beginning, I saw it as more than just a craft toy, seeing the opportunity to sculpt in vivid color.

I began developing my sculpting technique through trial and error. First, I began with sculpting heads only, creating finger puppet sculptures on wooden stands, which are still a mainstay of my creative output. However, through building techniques based on trial and error, and through the development of an armature that allows my sculptures to grow in complexity and size, I have expanded my work into larger scale works of greater scope and scale. Each sculpture is created from scratch, and I do not use any molds or forms in the creative process. I blend my own colors from primary basics. Because I like bright colors and a suppleness of shape, and have sought that as I’ve grown as an artist, I discovered that adding mineral oil to the clay helps to make it easier to manipulate. The technique itself is a step-by-step process. Each face alone has a minimum of 18 separate pieces of clay that must be sculpted into place.

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