Welcome - I hope you enjoy viewing my work. I modify most of my figure kits so that they wind up quite different from the original. (And there is a lot more here than just dinosaurs - so browse on!) I re-discovered the joy of art in mid-life and its been a joy to create and share my vision with others. Art, like all creative gifts, exists to be shared so as to enrich the lives of others.
So this website is my gift to you. If you have an interest in art/sculpting/modeling of all kinds of subjects, I would recommend that you check out the Internet Figure Modeling Clubhouse at
INTERNET CLUBHOUSE and also see
At both sites you will find incredible artists and sculptors, some nationally known. Their work will leave you in awe.
Thank you for stopping by!
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The original Jolson statuette showed him in blackface (a common theatrical convention of the musical theater at the beginning of the 20th century.) The eyes were rendered hollow.
Being a HUGE Jolson fan ever since college, I got my hands on one of these recently and decided to turn it into something more. I always wanted a statuette of Jolie to place next to my framed autograph/photo of Jolson, so I decided to do away with the blackface which hid the features of this otherwise very accurate little statuette. I filled in the hollow eyes with putty.
As the basis for the color of the costume I referred to the costume worn by Jolson in one of the Technicolor sequences of his 1930 film “Mammy” about a travelling minstrel troupe. I created a top hat which he wears in several sequences from the same film.
I made the hat from foam sheets bought at Michaels.