Halloween may be over, but the spirit lives on and on! With that in mind, we have the amazing original works from Bewitching III now in the Circus Posterus store for easy check out! Pick up a spooky painting or zombified original sculpt to adorn your art collection all year round. Find them all here.
Megan Baehr aka Nonesuch Garden is still rolling along full speed after her Halloween Skelve sold out a few weeks ago. Now with her sights set on Winter Salon III, she has a herd of plush ideas in store for us.
Megan is hard at work creating a multitude of her favorite mythical creature, the centaur, for the show. As you can see, the color palette is ready, which leaves the arduous task of constructing all these one of a kind liminal beings.
If you aren’t familiar with a centaur, they are creatures based in Greek and Roman mythology with the head, arms, and torso of a human and the body and legs of a horse. Also, if you look to the sky on a clear night, constellation Centaurus is based on the same…well, you know.
Megan has chosen a fine specimen to recreate in her dolls. We will see more of the herd soon!
You won’t have to travel to Thessaly to get one of these amazing dolls…probably just Albuquerque or the comfort of your computer. The Circus Posterus Winter Salon opens December 6!
Dr. Paul Koudounaris, the art historian recently dubbed by the UK press as “Indiana Bones” due to the discovery of caches of incredible jeweled skeletons for his new book “Heavenly Bodies”, will give an illustrated lecture on these masterpieces of macabre art in Albuquerque at Stranger Factory on November 22 at 6pm.
The event will also be the only area book signing for the title. The event is free.
The book “Heavenly Bodies” has already provoked a tremendous international response, due its often shocking images of fully articulated skeletons covered head to toe in dazzling jewels. The lecture, accompanied by a full slide show, will explain the puzzling and hidden back story of these marvelous skeletons: once believed to be early Christian martyrs, celebrated and decorated in the most exquisite of fashion, and then, as faith in them waned, turned out by the Catholic Church that once promoted them, often in humiliating ways.
For more information about Dr. Koudounaris and his book, check out the following – Your Corpse Will Never Look This Good (Vice Magazine) and the Smithsonian’s blog.
You can also RSVP at the Facebook event, although an RSVP is not required to attend!
Stranger Factory
109 Carlisle Blvd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
505-508-3049
If you are headed to Designer Con this weekend, we thought we would give you the run down on Circus Posterus booth #400.
Nov. 9 and 10
Pasadena Convention Center
Exhibit Hall A & B
300 East Green Street
Pasadena, CA 91101
For the first time ever, the glow in the dark sofubi we saw at Monsters and Misfits III is coming to the US!
This luminescent group of misfits are charged and ready for their debut at Designer Con! Here, you will see Calliope Jackalope by Kathie Olivas, Stinky Ginger by Chris Ryniak, Stingy Jack by Brandt Peters, and the brand new Heathen Snake Skelve.
This limited group will be available in a bundle pack including all 4, as well as a very small amount sold individually. After the success of all the other Tomenosuke + Circus Posterus sofubi, these will not last long. You can find them at the Circus Posterus booth #400 at DesignerCon this weekend!
Time for MORE Designer Con goods! This time, DrilOne.
War-machine Rumble – $350
Red Eye Drone – $200
Gasmask Skelve – $200
Gasmask Sal No. 2 – $140
5 various Mecha Sharks – $60ea.
1-off Micro Drones – $20ea.
See you at booth #400!
We already told you about the micro run Blue Monday Boo Skelve, but hold on to your hats because we also have a couple of mini Skelves for Designer Con!
Both with the trademark Masao kitty ears, one is clear with an embedded lucky skull while the other is a perfect cloudy blue. We don’t have an official name on these elegant blue ladies yet, but we will at DCON, I am sure. The fun is only a couple of days away!
Don’t forget, random line numbers will be given out at our booth #400 when doors open. One per household.
Just like any project, proper planning comes into play. With Jen Musatto “Them Dollz”, it takes figuring out the right patterns and arrangement to create the perfect doll.
Jen takes her time to pick out the proper fabric and pattern when putting together her perfect creations. Her dolls are a fluid combination of movement and patterns in a rag style, which composes a story all their own! We get to see Jen laying out some styles here before she gets sewing and stuffing. The finished products will be available soon, and we will most definitely bring you the scoop.
This year, joining us for the first time at the Circus Posterus booth during Designer Con is one of this year’s new additions to the artist roster, Shing Yin Khor. We have showed you some of the fabulous sculpts and pins that Shing will have at the con, but she will have plenty more (along with her bouncy attitude and bear death grip hugs).
We have compiled a nice slide show of the rest of Shing’s DCON bounty, including original paintings and more sculpts, and a list of her entire assortment.
In the month of October, Stan Manoukian participated int he “Inktober” exercise, and produced one wonderful and fully inked illustration a day!
AND, he’ll be selling them all in his Etsy store on Thursday 7th of November at 10am PST(7pm in Paris). In addition, he’ll be designing actually a little book with all of them called “SPECIES”, with a planned December release date.
Check them out, and don’t forget to stop by Stan’s Etsy store tomorrow! We also still have several of Stan’s brilliant original pieces up in the Circus Posterus store.
