Red Nose Studio

A tiny example of using reference for inspiration not duplication. For those of your curious about the machine in the recent Arctic piece, it is inspired by the already ‘wonky' Tucker Sno Cat. I would love to drive one of those.

Thanks Jacob. Good to connect on here.

I appreciate your kind words.

My biggest stand alone build yet! 'Admiral Beakon and His Lack of Foresight’ 34”W x 12”H x 20”D Mixed media: polymer clay, wire, foam, fabric, wood, brass, aluminum and found objects. Available if interested—> www.rednosestudio.com/puppets/admi...

Thanks as always for the credit Sophie. You’re amazing.

US cover for The House with Chicken Legs Runs Away by @rednosestudio.bsky.social 🤩🙏
Publishing in the US 02.06.26 with Scholastic💕

Thanks for the kind words.

Thanks!

‘Horseless’ 9”W x 15”H x 15”D Mixed media: polymer clay, wire, foam, fabric, brass, copper, chipboard and wood. With a bit of pain added. Available if interested —> www.rednosestudio.com/puppets/94uj...

Opening tonight in NYC at @soi128.bsky.social is the portrait exhibit ‘About Face’ If you’re in the city, come by and say hello to Virgil and all the other great work in the show. ‘Virgil in the Doyle Library’ was created for author @silviamg.bsky.social based on her novel ‘Mexican Gothic’

A tiny example of using reference for information rather than duplication. For those of you curious about the machine in the recent Arctic piece, it is inspired by an actual BMW build (prototype I believe) called the ‘Gleitkettenkraftrad’

I appreciate that.

The quiet of the snow. ‘Northern Lights & Taubanesentralen’ 16”W x 12”H x 16”D Mixed media: polymer clay, wire, foam, fabric, wood, brass, copper, chipboard and found objects. Available if interested: www.rednosestudio.com/puppets/nort...

My highlight from the Story Art exhibit at the Art Academy of Cincinnati was flipping through CF Payne’s sketchbooks. Lots of process work by other illustrators too. If you’re in Cincinnati, I encourage you to check it out.

Thanks!

it’s been a minute since I’ve been back to the Art Academy of Cincinnati and i’m excited to return.
if you’re around this Friday, come by and see the exhibit ‘STORY ART’ a group exhibition featuring picture book illustrators from OH, IN & KY. Curated by fellow alumni, the talented Jeffery Ebbeler.

30 mins till these go up for sale.

Yes, planning on it.

Art Academy of Cincinnati is putting on a show of the region's book illustrators curated by Jeff Ebbeler.

Opening is Friday at 5pm and there is a panel discussion at 10:30am.😍📖
#illustration #kidlitart #kidlit #childrensbookillustration

Looking forward to this!

Been thinking the same here in Indiana (middle of US)

Portrait of Judge Dee

inspired by how i get absorbed into the artwork of @dalestephanos.bsky.social I wonder what stories these faces can tell when the background noise gets quiet? 🦇 Judge Dee 🦇 risen from the wicked words of @lavietidhar.bsky.social

🦇 📦

These are lovely Rob.

Close up of the portrait in an oil painting.

Close up of an oil painting, focused a wolf

A woman dressed in a red robe, holds her chest. Behind her a wolf eats an indescribable piece of bloodied meat. The wolf’s muzzle is as bloodied as the woman’s hand.

Framed oil painting of a woman in red, a massive wolf behind her

As promised, a recent painting!

“Roja”
Oils 16x9

You can still view this one in person (always looks so much better in person!) at @spoke-art.com NY!

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They are each approximately 9 x 6 x 4 inches. Mixed media: polymer clay, floral wire, copper, paper and wood.
If interested, 4 of the 6 sculptures remain available for purchase individually—> www.rednosestudio.com/puppets

Releasing into the wild a new series. These are the individual bat sculpts that were created for my most recent stop-motion animation cycle. Created as a proof of concept for future endeavors, I wanted to make them available to collectors.

This FRIDAY NIGHT opens up the monster mash of the codacurates / @sideshow UNIVERSAL MONSTERS double feature!

Featured here are some of the Dracula originals available at the Austin Show this weekend… more peeks incoming!

www.sideshow.com
www.codacurates.com
www.gregthings.com

Nice

I'm seeing this from different people: "We must experiment with these tools to understand them and our place in the industry in the future." I hear coming from the Trojan horse. They weren't built with the idea of keeping artists on these projects, they were built as replacements and to save on the "bottom line". Gen ai and llms are used currently as replacements, and they're just going to get better. No experimenting needed dudes, they are designed so that a 2 year old can use them, if you know how to photobash youll be able to learn this workflow in 30 minutes if you so desperately needed to. Refusing to use them is standing in solidarity with the thousands affected and more so stolen from. Using them is crossing an active picket line and breathing life into a future where you no longer create art for media, you assist ai until the corporate machine no longer needs you to assist it. This issue is so much larger than the arts. We were just the canaries in the coal mine. We have the ability to stand firm on this and create the industry and world we wish to live in, not one we are forced to by people with interests directly harming our existence. I owe too much of my own life to art and what it has brought me in my darkest times than to capitulate.

My thoughts on the gen ai normalization I've been seeing recently: