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A Little Stranger x The Tarantulas GID Nibblers

Holly — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:13:06 +0000

A Little Stranger / The Tarantulas / Real x Head / Onell Design presents: Niblette. Ok, so he’s a GID Nibbler in a hot pink hoodie, but as the pretty counterpart to the SDCC release i thought he needed a pretty name These Nibblers are really, REALLY, GID and glow like crazy in the dark or under blacklight.

Each GID Nibbler comes with a hot pink hood and specially designed header cards. Vinyl Made in Japan by Real x Head. Cloak Made in UK by A Little Stranger.

They go on sale in the A Little Stranger Shop Wednesday February 1st at 8pm London time (15:00 Eastern, 12:00 Pacific time. if you are unsure what time this is in your country use this time convertor.)

Featured Artist on Urban Vinyl Daily

Holly — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:27:44 +0000

Urban Vinyl Daily have kindly made me featured artist of the month, thank you Ben for the great interview questions! Head on over now to read about how i got into the toy biz, upcoming plans for Cavey, my influences, customs and more…

Dune Sea II Nibbler: Secret Christmas Release

Holly — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:48:44 +0000

Christmas Eve at midnight marked the secret release of the Dune Sea II Nibblers over on The Tarantulas webshop. This figure was a a collab between Onell Design x Real x Head x A Little Stranger x The Tarantulas. Vinyl figure made in Japan by Real x Head. Their little cloaks are handmade in the UK by yours truly.

Stay tuned for a special A Little Stranger colourway, available exclusively through the A Little Stranger shop at the end of January. This morning the postman brought a big box of goodies from Chris for a photo shoot, man am i excited about this release! More news soon

Links: The Tarantulas blog / The Tarantulas shop

Bee-Girl In a Jar

Holly — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:30:02 +0000

Bee-Girl in a jar was a private commission and is sold. She is an A Little Stranger original, made from scratch with polymer clay, glass eyes, faux fur and wire, suspended in an antique jar. I have a few more of these beautiful antique jars waiting for little creatures to go inside; working on a smaller face sculpt was fun and had left me eager to explore just how small i can go with these…

New Customs and Bunny Brooches in the Shop

Holly — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:17:43 +0000

Phew! It’s been a crazy few months which has left my online shop a little neglected as things seem to fly out of shows before i can get them up online. So i’ve been putting my free time over Christmas to good use and updated the A Little Stranger Shop.

A great big sort out of all my stock following all the live events and custom shows i’ve done this year has left me with two customs and half a dozen Bunny Brooches to add to the shop! Visit alittlestranger.bigcartel.com for a browse.

Grey Fancy Snow Bunny

Holly — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:20:29 +0000

Grey Fancy Snow Bunny follows on from my custom 11″ Eeerz The Fancy Snow bunny, for the Eeerz Invasion Tour at Forbidden Planet. He started life as one of the Eeerz white DIY vinyls, onto which i sculpted his face with polymer clay and painted it with acrylics and pastels, and added ‘fluff’ lines to his body. I made his fluffy head and ‘eeerz’ from soft grey faux fur and off-white velvet. Lastly i made him a little black velvet bow tie and fluffy white tail.

Grey Fancy Snow Bunny was a private commission and is now sold.

Taxiderm-Eevee

Holly — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:50:49 +0000

Imagine if our favourite Japanese characters were real and lived among us? Taxiderm-eevee is a piece of rogue taxidermy, exploring what it would be like if my favourite Pokemon, Eevee, were a real animal that had been captured and preserved for future generations. Imagine what we could learn from this fascinating creature!

Taxiderm-eevee is an original work created for the Beware the Tall Grass show, November 18th at Kidrobot, London. He sold on the night.

HodgePodge

Holly — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:55:58 +0000

HodgePodge was created for the Tales from the Sneaky Crypt show at Kidrobot London, and sold on the night. The show was around Halloween time and featured a spooky theme, with each artist creating a creature that could be found in the ‘sneaky crypt’ Part cat, part grub, part fluff i-don-know-what-he-is, HodgePodge is made from fleece, felt and different colours and textures of faux fur, stitched together to create his dappled coat. His face cast from an original sculpt by me, in translucent resin, and painted with acrylics before being sealed with a matt laquer. HodgePodge has poseable feet and little wiggly grub arms.

Russian Dolls for Codename: Babushka

Holly — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:56:53 +0000

Thank you to the guys at Flatties for having me as a part of Codename: Babushka. This is such a great idea for a project and i’m really happy to be a part of it! There’s 15 artists involved in the project (head here to see a list) each artist’s set is then split up, muddled about with the other dolls and put back together at random, so you will receive 5 pieces of original art from 5 different artists! A Set of 5 russian dolls is £140, they also offer a payment plan, details here.

Codename Babushka is designed for the ulitmate blindbox experience and collectors in mind. Russian Dolls have been sent to all the artists below, each artist has a nest of 5 russian dolls starting at 5.5″ and shrinking down to 1.5″. They have been commissioned to create 5 artworks which will fit back inside each other. Once completed and collected up at Flatties HQ we will mix them all up and put them into blindboxes.

I handpainted my wooden dolls with acrylics in thin layers, leaving the woodgrain exposed underneath. They are then sealed with layers of lacquer for protection and shine. Each doll in the set is inspired by a different animal, going up in size: Hamster, rabbit, red panda, lemur, ram.

Don’t Forget your Mittens 100% Bearbrick

Holly — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:50:51 +0000

Don’t Forget Your Mittens is my piece for the Icons show at Fullcircle, Leeds, on October 28th 2011. She started life as a 1000% Bearbrick, i sculpted her face from scratch using polymer clay and glass eyes. I then painted her face with chalk pastels, acrylics and matt lacquer before sealing her lips with a few coats of gloss varnish and adding real human hair. Her bear suit was made from scratch in a soft caramel teddy bear style fabric, with fleece trims and a giant zipper in front. I then added the finishing touch of her little knitted mittens on a string through her bear suit.

I had a great time working on this custom, i think its my favourite piece i’ve worked on to date! Although slightly daunting at first i thoroughly enjoyed working at this massive scale – she’s the size of a toddler, and currently resides in our living room while she waits to be shipped up to Leeds for the show, creeping out everyone who comes over.

The line up for the show is insane and i’m humbled to be in the midst of such a fantastic selection of artists. You can see a work-in-progress shot of Map Map’s uh-mazing custom over on the Hang Gang site.