More bloggin & Someone of interest

Now that I have a more focused plan and idea with where I’m going with my series, I need to start finding lighting equipment so that I can set up my scenes at my place of residence and leave them up for long periods of time or however long it takes me finish the scene. Leaving my sets up for longer versus taking everything into the school’s studio space with a limited time allows for my scenes to evolve as I go and I won’t have to have as much as a set plan with where I want everything to be.

The other thing that I need to work on is locating hobby stores that sell train set landscaping and accessories. I’ve looked up hobby stores on yellowpages.com and found a couple located within the area and some in Southside. I’m going to hit them up to see what I can find because I need to find accessories and landscaping that can’t be hand made as well as stuff that I can just use the idea to make myself if need be. Since I plan to continue this type of photography/ sculpture installations throughout my entire artist career I can buy all types of accessories, but I should probably figure out before I go which type of landscape or environment that I’m going to first focus on for my series, because lets be honest I don’t have a ton of money right now to go crazy buying miniatures with, especially having to also buy lighting equipment.

I’ve been researching or trying to find other artists who are working with the same genre and I happened to find an artist, Michael Samuels, who does amazingly detailed and exquisite miniature scaled sculptures/ installations. I especially love his table top water scenes with islands, but I also like the way he chooses to display his works with uniquely set-up installations. I would love to watch and learn how he goes about making these scenes with what I’m sure is a massive amount of resin.

You gotta love the internet. I don’t know how else I would have found him, which I must say I’m very happy and excited to have, because his work is very inspirational and I will continue to watch and admire him.

http://www.michaelsamuels.co.uk/