Tools and materials for artists can be [almost criminally] expensive at times, so I’m always on the lookout for ways to keep my costs down. For instance, art bins can easily be subbed out with second-hand tackle boxes.
If you’re a figurative artist, you may’ve made use of the pose-able mannequins. A couple of months ago while haunting the local Good Will for a vintage waffle iron for making Cuban-style sandwiches, I noticed a fully pose-able G.I.Joe [with "Kung-Fu Grip"] in a bin full of dolls and ‘action figures’, and I picked up this guy for $1.00:
[What can I say? Some men can be cheaply had.]
When I get weary of looking at Joe’s scowl, I just put of bit of paper tape over his face. Here’s a close-up of that cozy tableau:
I got Joe home and put him on the shelf, but then couldn’t resist the irony of having G.I.Joe bottle-feeding a Little Green Man-baby. Hmmm. Maybe that’s why he’s scowling so hard,….
- Ryl
