The work of art that I created for the CRYPTID ENCOUNTERS group exhibition at the Hive Gallery in Los Angeles just arrived back home! It was a cool exhibition and I had fun creating this piece.
Not only do I love everything related to cryptozoology and mysteries, the process for creating this piece was fascinating and complicated. My long walks in the forest and the infinite hours I have spent with Robert Stack while watching Unsolved Mysteries my whole life did help for the inspiration, but creating the inner frame piece was something else! I wasn’t sure what to do but when I got the idea to recreate the iconic foot print that gave the Big Foot his name, it was clear that I had to do it! But how?
After I painted a woodland scenery with our elusive monster lurking in the background, I sculpted the foot print in Sculpey clay. I first had to make a flat, rectangular piece with the clay so that it would fit in the frame. For this I used a few sculpting tools and my bare hands. I then framed it and mounted it on the canvas with heavy acrylic gel and staples on the back. It took a while for me to figure out my approach with this one but I am quite fond of the final product and I hope you like it too!
Acrylic on Stretched Canvas & Framed Sculpey Clay
11" x 14"
2024
