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Posted: 8/25/2017 6:43:14 PM EDT
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BADASS!!
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Posted: 8/25/2017 6:45:46 PM EDT
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can someone post a link to previous projects? guns, you should put it in the OP
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Posted: 8/25/2017 7:07:54 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/25/2017 7:29:38 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/25/2017 7:32:44 PM EDT
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Can my kid sign up for your class? Your student's work is better than a lot of professionals around here. I'll never forget my ex GF's step dad's bobcat mount. It was beautify done, except the eyes. It was crosses eyed as a mother fucker, giving it a ridiculous appearance. Mount was done like this 
And the face looked like this, but more cross-eyed 
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Posted: 8/25/2017 7:37:17 PM EDT
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Rig the horn with wires and a capacitor so that people get a strong static shock when they touch it. The will believe it is a real unicorn.
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Posted: 8/25/2017 7:39:43 PM EDT
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Rig the horn with wires and a capacitor so that people get a strong static shock when they touch it. The will believe it is a real unicorn. |
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Posted: 8/25/2017 7:43:24 PM EDT
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how difficult is it to get a narwhal horn? |
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Posted: 8/25/2017 7:43:50 PM EDT
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Well, it's going to look exactly like a REAL unicorn, it just won't have a hairy skin.  It will have a horses mane, as my crazy students have already volunteered their horses tails . 
We are going to sculpt a horn with epoxy putty to look like a gemsbok's. We were going to buy one, but I think they can sculpt one. It will prove my point even more by doing it that way.  
Suggestion: historically, the "unicorn horns" displayed by adventurers were actually narwhal tusks. Since you're having the students sculpt one instead of trying to source one, you might as well go with the "historically correct fake". |
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Posted: 8/25/2017 8:53:12 PM EDT
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can someone post a link to previous projects? guns, you should put it in the OP Quote HistoryQuoted:
can someone post a link to previous projects? guns, you should put it in the OP 
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Sopwith Camel Stagecoach Viking ship Dragon Space Shuttle U-boat ETA: Dang, when you put them all together, that's mighty impressive! https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/ALL-ABOARD-OFFICIAL-Student-Build-Baldwin-4-4-0-Locomotive-Update-8-25-pg2/5-2025503/ |
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Posted: 8/26/2017 12:57:27 AM EDT
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So the unicorn and locomotive are being done simultaneously?
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Posted: 8/26/2017 1:04:09 AM EDT
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Yes. Both are unicorns.
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Posted: 8/26/2017 2:09:05 AM EDT
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Make sure to play this on a loop at the exhibit.
Unicorn song |
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Posted: 8/26/2017 4:18:54 AM EDT
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[Yoda voice] No, there is another...... [/Yoda voice] Quote HistoryQuoted:
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In on this for another years awesome project  
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Posted: 8/26/2017 4:29:59 AM EDT
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In.
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Posted: 8/26/2017 9:44:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Make sure to play this on a loop at the exhibit.
Unicorn song  The Irish Rovers - The Unicorn Song |
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Posted: 8/26/2017 9:50:19 AM EDT
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No shit; we are talking about using it on the insides of the nose and ears, possibly the lips.
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Posted: 8/26/2017 10:38:57 AM EDT
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So your unicorn is going to be a donkey??? 
You can find more electronic components here: www.jameco.com Maybe he/she should have a motion activated Charlie-the-Unicorn voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsGYh8AacgY |
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Posted: 8/26/2017 1:44:30 PM EDT
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tagski
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Posted: 8/26/2017 1:49:58 PM EDT
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Then do a bunch of squirrels around the bottom with picket signs "Fuck you, this is art!" "End artistic suppression" and such. They can have little banners too, maybe a model of a teargas can or two.
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Posted: 8/26/2017 5:30:37 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/27/2017 1:29:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Then do a bunch of squirrels around the bottom with picket signs "Fuck you, this is art!" "End artistic suppression" and such. They can have little banners too, maybe a model of a teargas can or two.
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Posted: 8/28/2017 6:28:11 PM EDT
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Update 8/28
We are making good progress with the burlap. We should have it close to covered tomorrow. The burlap will allow us to get a better bond with the glue when we start putting glass on it. 
I'd like to have anyone stand in front of the two gals who are sculpting the ears of our unicorn and tell them taxidermy isn't "Art" . There was almost a fight today between two good friends over horse ears. 
The location, size, and position of the ears was a huge problem and cause lots of arguing. They are both "Horse Gals" too, so the subject is dear to them and you could see the passion in their arguments. We finally settled for what we think is correct. Tomorrow we are hoping to get them secured with clay, then covered with the burlap. This is exactly the same scupture work that goes into any shoulder mount. 
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Posted: 8/28/2017 9:22:57 PM EDT
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As long as we're talking unicorns, why there aren't any around these days:
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Posted: 8/29/2017 5:04:28 PM EDT
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Update 8/29
Almost all finished with the burlap. We have a bit to go on the back of the mount.  Tomorrow we may get to some glass, and the start of our horn. We also will have some sculpting work on the eyes, eyelids, eyebrows, lips, nose and nostrils. I need to get on it and find some fiber to weave into the horn. 
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Posted: 8/29/2017 5:19:08 PM EDT
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Damn, I wish I had a teacher like you when I was in school. The most exciting thing I got to do was write a paper on how we thought JFK was really killed.
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Posted: 8/29/2017 5:25:29 PM EDT
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I'm glad you and the kids are having fun. I'm sure it's a blast making that unicorn.
But all that aside, it's arts & crafts, not Fine Art. Taxidermy is arts & crafts. Unicorns are arts & crafts. There is actually a defined field name for this type of work: Decorative Arts. |
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Posted: 8/29/2017 5:31:23 PM EDT
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I'm glad you and the kids are having fun. I'm sure it's a blast making that unicorn. But all that aside, it's arts & crafts, not Fine Art. Taxidermy is arts & crafts. Unicorns are arts & crafts. There is actually a defined field name for this type of work: Decorative Arts. |
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Posted: 8/29/2017 5:31:39 PM EDT
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Tag
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Posted: 8/29/2017 5:37:15 PM EDT
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I am subscribed.
Another guy who wishes you would have been one of my teachers when I was in school. |
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Posted: 8/29/2017 5:45:54 PM EDT
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My HS art teacher was a cranky old libtard cat woman that would hiss at you.
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Posted: 8/29/2017 5:51:35 PM EDT
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Please do not turn this thread into an argument. Accounts will suffer and not the thread.
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Posted: 8/29/2017 5:59:41 PM EDT
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I'm glad you and the kids are having fun. I'm sure it's a blast making that unicorn. But all that aside, it's arts & crafts, not Fine Art. Taxidermy is arts & crafts. Unicorns are arts & crafts. There is actually a defined field name for this type of work: Decorative Arts. Taxidermy is sculpture. It's primary function is to be seen/experienced. Classical taxidermy used raw materials from a harvested animal. This uses artificial materials. That's no difference from sculpting with steel versus quarried stone, or painting with acrylics on board versus oil on canvas. |
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Posted: 8/29/2017 6:00:40 PM EDT
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Please do not turn this thread into an argument. Accounts will suffer and not the thread. |
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Posted: 8/29/2017 6:02:46 PM EDT
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In.
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Posted: 8/29/2017 6:07:05 PM EDT
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Judges @ art fairs
Juries even more
Taxidermy just another form of sculpture ...you guys do some pretty cool stuff. A Woolly Mammoth or a Mastodon would be neat |
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Posted: 8/29/2017 6:34:13 PM EDT
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A Woolly Mammoth or a Mastodon would be neat |
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Posted: 8/29/2017 6:38:37 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/29/2017 6:46:45 PM EDT
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A Woolly Mammoth or a Mastodon would be neat |
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Posted: 8/29/2017 6:50:41 PM EDT
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Near impossible in the US. They can't be imported or hunted, so the only ones that get sold are from existing collections, and expensive as hell. |
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Posted: 8/29/2017 7:03:33 PM EDT
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I wish you were one of my teachers when I was in school.
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Posted: 8/29/2017 7:20:55 PM EDT
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So when is the fundraising drive to add another wing on the school for your projects?
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Posted: 8/29/2017 7:35:03 PM EDT
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Very cool project! Remember, Europeans used to think that narwhale tusks were unicorn horns. If you decide to drop the epoxy horn, you can get replica narwhale tusks on ebay.
If you are going to make a mold for the epoxy horn, check out youtube for carving a spiral in wood. I have made a couple of dirks with carved spiral handles and youtube has some good ways to lay them out easily so you get a consistent spiral. You could use the carved spiral as the plug for making your mold. You could carve it out of a sacrificial material like wax or something water soluble. Melt it out of your mold and you are ready to go. |
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Posted: 8/29/2017 7:36:21 PM EDT
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Apparently I'm late to this party.
When someone says, "A unicorn?????!!!", just smile and reply, "It was delicious!" |
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Posted: 8/29/2017 7:44:52 PM EDT
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Lol this is great, cant wait to see it finished.
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Posted: 8/29/2017 8:46:42 PM EDT
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So here is a little bit of irony.....
Years ago, they have had state wide contests for students and schools to finish these animal form sculptures. They provide a fiberglass shell/form to be painted, or decorated in any way they choose. They were judged at the State Art contest, and celebrated by showing them off in their own part of the show. Most were just painted. Some had texture added, and then there was ours....
It's exactly the same as what we are doing with the Unicorn, but we are using a foam taxidermy form instead.
Notice the "oil" pouring out of the fish in the sides. 
We used deer eyes for the fish.
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Posted: 8/29/2017 10:17:17 PM EDT
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Please do not turn this thread into an argument. Accounts will suffer and not the thread. I just want everyone to remain respectful.
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Posted: 8/29/2017 10:25:06 PM EDT
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I know where one is, in a cabinet of curiousities... |
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Posted: 8/29/2017 10:26:31 PM EDT
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So here is a little bit of irony..... Years ago, they have had state wide contests for students and schools to finish these animal form sculptures. They provide a fiberglass shell/form to be painted, or decorated in any way they choose. They were judged at the State Art contest, and celebrated by showing them off in their own part of the show. Most were just painted. Some had texture added, and then there was ours....
It's exactly the same as what we are doing with the Unicorn, but we are using a foam taxidermy form instead.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4421/36071124564_36c0c2a2af_h.jpg https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4398/36071117004_c5f9e47724_h.jpg Notice the "oil" pouring out of the fish in the sides. https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4419/36071124714_8590f1babc_h.jpg We used deer eyes for the fish.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4437/36071116714_decb6c224b_h.jpg https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4350/36905406325_44856f83d5_h.jpg https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4333/36765685701_0575a520b1_h.jpg |
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Posted: 8/29/2017 10:47:22 PM EDT
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This should go well. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'm glad you and the kids are having fun. I'm sure it's a blast making that unicorn. But all that aside, it's arts & crafts, not Fine Art. Taxidermy is arts & crafts. Unicorns are arts & crafts. There is actually a defined field name for this type of work: Decorative Arts. |
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