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A tiger pelt shaped handmade rug on a grassy lawn. The tiger has tattoos instead of stripes, a chain motif across the shoulders, an anchor and the moniker "pop pop" on foremost arm.
We made a rug #drtyawsm @nikkibenedetto.bsky.social 🧶 😼 I'm liable to post abt it more than once as it is a triumph if I do say so myself #lockerhooking #crafts #folkart #tiger
An upcycled art image of a portrait of Leonardo DaVinci has been painted over to make him wear a RUSH t shirt. He has daisy flowers painted in his beard and a pot leaf button painted on his cap. The caption "Dankvinci m'lady" is above his head at the top of the image.
A woodburned and painted shadow box diorama of a robotic locust shooting a lazer out of his mouth, inspired by the 1980s arcade game Gorf
An upcycled art image of a lady saint. The original image of the saint has been painted over to make her hair green snakes, she's a Medusa. She holds one of her snake tail hairs in front of her as well as roses. Her fingernails are painted pink.
A cut-to-shape wooden mushroom and a vine grow out of an egg shaped rock. The technique is woodburning and the subjects are painted with acrylic paint. The mushroom has one eye with tired bags under it and two Lil fang teeth.
Black bowl with flared lip and purple diamond shape background. In the center of the diamond is a green-tinted face, mouth open wide with yellowed eyes and long lavender-grey hair. There is another face in profile on both ends of the diamond, with shouting lines toward the middle face. The faces are sprig molded from an old Alice Cooper toy.
Left side view of the bowl in the first picture, clearly showing the face in profile with shouting lines toward the middle face. The faces are sprig molded from an old Alice Cooper toy.
Right side view of the bowl in the first picture, clearly showing the face in profile with shouting lines toward the middle face. The faces are sprig molded from an old Alice Cooper toy.
Here's one from our #pottery phase a couple of years ago. The faces were done from sprig molds I made of an old Alice Cooper toy.
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A vintage frame with painted and wood burned layers of thin wood to create a 3D scene of 5 monster mushrooms along a creek with stylized rocks and plants. One mushroom is crying and one looks like a nose. The upper right corner has a spiderweb, the left a rainbow.
A painted and wood burned canvas with cut out layers for a 3D effect. The design is a pile of skulls tilting in different directions with a background of yellow, orange and gold rays radiating from from the lower center horizon.
A wood burned and painted cut out (for 3D effect) anatomical heart on a background of simple line-drawings of flowers. The heart is red with metallic highlights. The background is dark olive green. The flowers are gold with pink centers.
More #drtyawsm to share with the void. Thanks for looking! 🌀
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Hand painted shrinky dinks in progress of becoming earrings and necklaces laid out on a table. Closest pictured is Audrey 2 from Little Shop of Horrors. Earing sets include peacock feathers, chandeliers and fancy antique lock with a bow framing it.
Hand painted shrinky dinks in progress of becoming earrings and a hair clip laid out on a table. Earing sets include snakes coiled around a hoop, peacock feathers and lanterns. The hair clip is the Sigil of Baphomet in white, pink and orange.
Colorful various hand painted shrinky dink necklaces. Include a glittery anatomical heart, devil from the devo video Peekaboo and Sloths holding banners with lyrics from a Dinosaur Jr. song Freak Scene - "Sometimes I don't thrill you, Sometimes I think I'll kill you".
Bowl of hand painted shrinky dinks ready to be made into necklaces. Included is a glittery bat, Slimer (Ghostbusters), Ming the Merciless (Flash Gordon), Audrey 2 (Little Shop of Horrors).
Way back when #drtyawsm made #shrinkydink jewelry.
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#flashgordon
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Wood burned and painted red space helmet with an image of the bedroom from the finale of 2001: A Space Odyssey inside.
Wood burned and painted white and blue space helmet with an image of a screaming skull with the old tv color bars inside it's mouth.
Wood burned and painted silver space helmet with an image of a goldfish swimming inside.
Wheel of Fortune #drtyawsm 🧶 #lockerhooking
Vintage lacquered wood slice with image of Jesus. A t-shirt with the band Slayer's logo is painted on top of it.
A wood slice plaque with a wood burned and painted image one of the devils from the background of Devo's video for Peek-A-Boo. It has red, white and blue pills and lit joints around the edges.
Two vintage wooden wall sconce candle-holders wood burned and painted with images of lava lamps. One lamp looks like an open mouth with sharp, jagged teeth, the lava is the tongue and tonsil. Stretching, gloppy eyeballs represent the lava in the other lamp. Mid-century style stars are sprinkled in around both.
A vintage wood-framed mirror with wood burned images around the frame. The bottom image is the top half of a bat, arms outstretched, holding lit candles. There are lightning bugs across the top with stars. Reflected in the mirror is a poster of Nick Cave.
More #drtyawsm things from the past.
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Repurposed vintage dresser mirror (minus the mirror). Wood burned and painted scene with two hooded figures holding a set of keys with outstretched hands. An oversize lit candle is on on either side behind the figures. Behind the figures are three piles of skulls, rainbows and a pyramid with and eye at the top and rays radiating from it.
An oversize wooden wrist watch with a full size clock. Wood burned and painted doodles including ghost, cactus, ice-cream cone, lightbulb, pizza.
Vintage oval side table a Ouija board wood burned and painted on top.
Vintage wooden letter holder wood burned and painted to look like Horace Pinker (from the 1989 movie Shocker) being electrocuted.
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Wood burned and painted image of tropical paradise at sunset with alligator either catching or launching skulls in or from it's mouth.
Wood burned and painted image of hand held up, palm facing you with flames coming from finger tips.
Wood burned and painted image of an eyeball crying rain, creating splashes in a puddle with a rainbow in the background.
Wood burned and painted image of an open mouth with large sharpish teeth, dripping drool probably. One large bottom tooth has a lightning bolt shaped crack in it.
Some more #drtyawsm classics.
#drtyawsm Happy Valentine's Day @nikkibenedetto.bsky.social