Thursday 14 January 2010

MumboJumbo

MumboJumbo, or Alena Wooten, is a twenty-seven year old sculptor from New York. Alena sculpts using Scupley clay and often sculpts characters from films or comics, and is often commissioned to sculpts other people's characters.

Yenny
Made with super sculpey (mixed with a block of black and white sculpey 3)
8 inches tall

Stipp
Super Sculpey (mixed with a block of white and black sculpey III)
8.5 inches tall

Hashi Hime
Super Sculpey
9 inches tall
Stands on its own

Alena at work, she mainly uses the tool featured at the bottom, a rubber tipped tool like a brush. She also uses these items while making a model.

Alena can be found at her deviantART, blog and website. She is also taking part in the Totoro Forest Project, 'a fund raising exhibition/auction to support the national trust Totoro Forest Foundation that Oscar winning film maker Hayao Miyazaki has been helping over the years, featuring original art created by internationally acclaimed artists in the fields of animation, comic books, and illustration.'

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