[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-clay-goblin-christmas-on-dartmoor-part-2":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Guess what this is...! It's a GOBLIN! Yes, really! I know, it doesn't look like a goblin, it looks like a space man put together by a four-year-old. When Stuart and I went to the Reeves for Christmas, we brought several boxes of Sculpey clay, wire, cutters and foil. Supposedly they were gifts, but really I was hoping for the chance to make something with them. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/goblin_making2-95c591b53d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere are Sam, Philip and me being busy bees, while Stuart and Philip's sister and brother-in-law play Monopoly at the other end of the table.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/goblin_making1-f1a1ee6953.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nPhilip has a fabulous new book coming out in April, called \u003Ca href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1407115278/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d12_g14_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=0J9A70CZX3ZV3QVZZM9C&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128473&pf_rd_i=468294\">\u003Ci>Goblins\u003C/a>\u003C/i>, and I love the little critters on the cover, drawn by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.davidsemple.co.uk/\">David Semple\u003C/a>, so I thought I'd try making one of my own in 3-D. (Find out more about \u003Ci>Goblins\u003C/i> \u003Ca href=\"http://www.philipreeve.blogspot.com\">on Philip's blog\u003C/a>.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.philipreeve.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-year-of-goblin.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/goblinsweb-d67940adf3.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nSam made a goblin head, too! It's a fine goblin. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/goblin_making2b-1b693300b7.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's what mine looked like, after I covered all the foil and wire with clay and did some shaping. It still looked like a pig, and I needed to add stuff to make it more goblin-like.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/goblin_making3-87177c7774.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nSome armour... Philip gave me some ideas about the kind of armour goblins might wear. Pretty simple stuff, and very bashed-up. \\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more photos under the cut-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/goblin_making4-6df0c92bbf.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAh, yes. The helmet needs some height. I was getting a bit obsessive by this point, and the other sculptors had long since packed up their stuff.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/goblin_making5-1498aba699.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe lower shelf in the Aga isn't very hot, it's where people put young lambs and puppies and things when they're too cold in the winter. But we left our goblins in there overnight and that seemed to cook them through.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/goblin_making6-3cb7583e03.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI started painting my goblin the next day, just the green bits, but there were lots of other exciting things going on around the house, and I was getting a bit frustrated with it, so I didn't finish. But Philip's painted lots of little Warhammer pieces and such, and knows what he's doing, so he took over after I left. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/goblin_making7-a7c65a6e03.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nLook, he even made the armour look rusty! Thanks so much, Philip! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/goblin_philip1-415e6f8bb1.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's the goblin, surveying its domain.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/goblin_philip3-b8b8842566.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI couldn't get teh clay as smooth as I would have liked, but hey, it's a goblin! They're pretty rough characters. This one has a very bristly tail.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/goblin_philip2-dfd0480728.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd there were other strange beasties to be discovered around the Reeve Ranch (not just the alpacas). Here's an odd character I found in the shed, which turned out to be a bird-scaring device, created by Philip's dad. Very cool.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmas11_birdscarer-cb585dd549.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nA few more Christmas pictures... Oo, you can make dicky bows out of biscuit foil wrappers. How chic!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmas11_philip_bowtie-06fec78266.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nSam with bow tie.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmas11_sam_bowtie-539f8f1943.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWhee, prezzies! Sam's was most elegantly wrapped in \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thecomixreader.com/\">The Comix Reader\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmas11_sam-46f7438c7f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd here's the Reeve clan! From right to left, it's Sarah, Philip, Philip's mum, his dad, his sister Marianne, Marianne's partner Howard, and in the front, Sam. Thanks so much for including us in your Christmas!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmas11_reeves-c2c9bf55d7.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmas11_marianne-9720c2f62f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmas11_stuart-4c738cb21c.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI'd been talking about wanting to draw on larger paper since I \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/446651.html\">visited Chris Riddell's studio\u003C/a> and saw his big sketchbooks, and Philip and Sarah got me a lovely big one, with this inscription. Yay!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmas11_sketchbook-1550675db6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmas11_prezzies-6555e208a3.jpg\">","2012-01-02T22:20:00.000Z","clay-goblin-christmas-on-dartmoor-part-2",[],"clay goblin! christmas on dartmoor, part 2",1776628721172]