Wow, I have no idea if I categorized this right.

Anyway, I made this to hang in our kitchen (the walls of which are bright orange)! ~BBPskigirl bought the blank hanger thingie and I came up with this idea right away. It was definitely a learning experience...

I used Super Sculpey to make the tentacles, but because I couldn't bake the whole base in the oven I sliced the backs of the tentacles off and very carefully removed the fronts from the base. I stuck them onto pieces of tin foil that were roughly the same shape as the base and hoped for the best! Once the Sculpey was done baking and cooling, I realized that some of it had changed shape. I used hot glue to stick the tentacles back onto the base, but because they were no longer a perfect fit I had to fill in the gaps with extra hot glue. I eventually got everything stuck together and sliced off the excess blue with a utility knife, but was still concerned that the glue looked too lumpy. After I painted the octopus, though, the lumpiness became much less noticeable!

We now have dog leashes and keys hanging from this!

The style of the painting itself is very much influenced by the amazing . I bow before her bright colors and bad ass designs.

Photos by ~Nikkuman, who also built an awesome box in which to take the photos.

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