“Flashback Friday Sale” Modern Eden is have a HUGE art sale!! Please contact info@moderneden.com to sign up and recieve the purchasing info/link. There are some incredible paintings and sculpture in the collection (including some of my sea creatures) and you’re supporting an AMAZING gallery and artists with your greenbacks. Yours truly, ~Emi
Finally!!!
Now to get the website up…… *slaps self in face*
(So as to not waste your time-here’s a cute film still from an upcoming taxidermy project to be announced soon!!)
Whew!!!
It took 4 layers of careful trimming and textural blending to fade the fox, skunk, and bear furs together!
For the chin I added some curled black bear fur with individual skunk tail hairs blended in for the salt-n-pepper look. After the bondo sets I’ll be able to attach the ear fur (also blended fox/bear) and paint the lower lip. A few spot checks, some last minute mount adjustments, and probably a few deep sighs of relief and this amazing specimen will be complete!!!
I’m concentrating the majority of my attention on taxidermy really, but I had started this submission for one of my favorite west coast galleries and the deadline was just extended giving me just the perfect and realistic amount of time I needed to finish it. I’ve got to wait on a few things in the tanning wash, so the timing couldn’t be better!
The base is a found item, a painted poppy plant on walnut craft wood. I liked the painting a lot, but sadly the finish was in pretty bad shape. What I’ve done here is preserved and incorporated the original painted bloom into the new work and created a psychedelic poppy-plant-squid-creature to embrace it. It’s flashy, colorful, and no doubt a far out piece! Here’s some progress pics to give you an idea of what the finished piece will look like…
What can I say…I’m just one girl, overworked and only slightly underpaid. 
After a busy month setting up shop at holiday outposts like the Scarab Club, Chin’s Tiki, and even having to pass up a few shows…..I’ve cleared out nearly all of my inventory and am back in the studio working to bring you the best work I can.
Some quick points of info, all Jan-Feb is “taxidermy-time”, and as is the case with all my tax work~every animal used in this upcoming collection was either roadkill or a donated dead pet. As a new mainstay of ALL my taxidermy work..10% of all profits will be donated to animal welfare groups listed in detail on my BRAND NEW and soon-to-be-released website!
Here are some images of work created over the past month, including the wildly popular “My little Pony” collection of modified/up-cycled vinyl toys.
More posts to come soon, and big news about the TV show(s), second-year solo shows, and the new clothing line. Always growin’!
It’s a work in progress…..show up opening night to see the Sure-to-Wow work! (and many amazing others!!!)
Wrap around painting finishes off the illustration with a bang!!
Title: “Dreaming of Eden” by Emi Slade
Price: 150$
(contact: hello@swoongallery.com to purchase!)
*teaser image*
Graphite on achival cardstock, 8″x10″, framed 9″x11″ with painted wrap-around frame. Can’t wait…this show is going to be awesome!!
Titled “In Death there is My Life” (large banner on vulture reads “In morte vita est mea” which is classical Latin for the piece’s title.)
Measures approx 24″x12″x7″, material list: Polymer/Epoxy clay sculpt, glass eyes, metal skeleton, charred wood base, rooster feathers.
Makes it’s debut Oct 20th at Gallery 423 West in Los Angeles, Ca.
Here’s a high-contrast clip/teaser
