Canโt shake the invasive thought to rebuild my stall out of tent poles instead of my current PVC pipe constructionโฆ.
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Watercolours, digifab and the intersections between them - the art of @alecat.bsky.social Taking inspiration from nature and video games - particularly Pokรฉmon and Splatoon. Formerly @alecatmew / @chenonetta Links at ๐ ale.chenonetta.com
Canโt shake the invasive thought to rebuild my stall out of tent poles instead of my current PVC pipe constructionโฆ.
Photo of a pair of Staryu earrings
Photo of a pair of Honedge earrings
Photo of the artist wearing a flutter mane earring, pointing at it somewhat disapprovingly
Photo of a group of Chandelure earrings
PS I make lots of mini Pokรฉmon earrings, here are some of my faves!
aww thank you!!! It was nice to do this speedbuild, the shapes were really good for laser cutting too so much faster to plan out 2d shapes :D
Thank you! I really enjoy making little earring guys so Tori's art acted as a perfect muse.
I might! The plastics I'm using for these are a bit scuffed - I'll have to audit them properly tomorrow.
Thank you, the first thing I saw when I woke up was your wonderful artwork and it was like a bolt of inspirational lightning!
Yes!
Watercolour painting of a Pokรฉmon team featuring Dhelmise, Rhibombee, Drampa, Mimikyu, Araquinid and Toucannon. The Mimikyu and Toucannon are shiny forms, and most of the Pokรฉmon are looking at the trainer in the middle, a short girl wearing jeans and with hair in long twintails with bows.
A pair of shoes with a mix of Pokรฉmon from a gen 7 team. Malamar + Liepard, Espeon, Hawlucha and Goodra are on one shoe. The other shoe has Mega Kangaskhan, Zapdos, Seismitoad and Breloom. This is more than 6 Pokรฉmon, since the Pokรฉmon featured were swapped in and out on a few teams together.
Watercolour painting of six Pokemon. Tornadus hovers in the back behind Garganacl, which is using the move Wide Guard around a Baxcalibur, Wo-Chien, Farigiraf and Toxtricity
Watercolour painting of a Pokรฉmon team featuring Talonflame, Comfey, Stellar-form Terapagos, Rillaboom, Mienshao and Hearthflame Ogerpon. In the top left, a Fezandipiti flies away from the group. Mienshao is blowing a coach's whistle while Terapagos looms over the scene.
Some #PlayPokemon #PokemonVGC illustrations! All of these are teams I ran "competitively" at some point.
I've been making a more concerted effort to paint my teams within the current gen, so please keep an eye out for more art!
Which of your #Pokemon teams would you commemorate this way?
ohhhh so lovely!!! I love the colour choices and the designs are perfect. Y'all did great!!!
PS can I see the pieces you painted?
Almost through my whole school years Iโd do weekly pottery classes with a neighbour. I reaaaallllly missed it - itโs probably been about 20 years since I last touched clay.
These classes were wonderful and I had a great teacher to guide me - please check out their work at melon-au.squarespace.com
Photo of a plaster mould of a triangle shape in the top left and the 3d printed plastic form that created it in the bottom right
Photo of an opened two part plaster mould, with a triangle clay form inside. There is very little flashing/overspill but a few bubbles on the surface.
The fully demoulded lid part, showing an extended cylinder on the triangle part. An arrow points out where an air bubble formed instead of taking on the form of the divot in the plaster.
Cross section of the lid, showing how the slip has formed a shell around the part.
I also tried making plaster moulds! I 3D printed forms and made plaster moulds from them. Then I poured slip into the moulds! I want to eventually try doing a mould for a D20 teapot, so I started with a lid.
My plaster was 30 year old plaster of Paris - Iโll try with proper plaster in the future.
Photo of a grey tool with fishing line wrapped around it, which will be used as a clay cutting tool. The angle on the left is a 20.9ยฐ angle and the right angle is 45ยฐ
Between sessions, I worked on tools and other experiments to streamline my making. I made a triangle cookie cutter and a bevel tool that cuts the angles for piecing together the icosahedron teapot.
Photo of three small ceramic pieces, freshly thrown. The clay is wet. There are three distinct forms - a bowl at the back, a thick mug at the left and a little vase on the right.
The same clay pieces, dried and decorated with underglaze. Each piece has one thick band of colour around its middle and a small stripe of the same colour at its lip. The left bowl is striped in green, the middle cup is striped in purple and the vase also seems to be purple but it will hopefully come out a bit more red. The vase additionally has some abstract repeated shapes carved into the stripe.
I also made a few wheel thrown pieces!
Iโll see what glazes my pottery instructor has, Iโm not sure they keep many overglaze colours on hand. Not planning on any underglazes since Iโve wrapped up my formal sessions for now, but I have plans to do moulding and casting with this same concept down the line and might explore options then!
Photo of a teapot made from buff clay. It is not fully dried, and wrapped in plastic to moderate its drying speed. The teapot has triangular planes and the body is an icosahedron (as used by 20-sided dice). It has a triangle spout and the topmost triangle is its removable lid.
I signed up to some pottery sessions as a birthday present to myself. One of the projects I worked on was an icosahedron teapot!
As the result of a leak in my super glue bottle (less a leak and more a giant tear in the bottle) I have managed to get about half of the bottle's contents all over my clothes. Bleh!
Oops, copy/pasted the wrong alt text. This should read, "Map of Sydney, Australia, depicting roads in yellow, bodies of water in white and land areas in two shades of dark green."
Before I put the hard yakka in to tidy this up, thoughts on this framing for the Sydney coasters? I'd like to retain the same zoom to match the other city coasters, but I'm open to transposing the focus.
Before I put the hard yakka in to tidy this up, thoughts on this framing for the Sydney coasters? I'd like to retain the same zoom to match the other city coasters, but I'm open to transposing the focus.
Happy Year of the Horse! I made a new coaster design to celebrate.
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Ooohhh thatโs so cool! Iโm a bit jealous because being interstate I wonโt get to see it in person. Everyoneโs art looks amazing and thereโs a variety of different media and characters featured!
Whaaa thank you!!! I had a short time frame for this one so I had to throw caution to the wind and grind it out!
Thank you to @/artofnakoo for coordinating and curating this event! It was so good to have some motivation to continue working on these VGC inspired pieces. It was a great way to start the year off and I look forward to lots more art throughout 2026!
To no surprise the pitch with the most famous team of all time was selected!
Gyarados is the central figure; Se-Jun's self-described ace of the team. A non-meta Mega, it also provides the title to the piece "Champions that Broke the Mold" - a nod to its Mold Breaker ability.
Since it was an anniversary exhibition, we had a brief to feature Kanto Pokรฉmon, but I couldn't help myself and had to find a way to pair the theme with #playPokemon / #PokemonVGC content. I pitched three Champion teams that each centred a Mega from gen 1 - teams from 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Watercolour painting featuring a team of six Pokรฉmon. At the front, a joyful Pachirisu raises a hand. In the back, a Garchomp leaps into the air with its arms ready to attack. Talonflame soars over the back left of the piece and Gardevoir and Gothitelle flank a giant Mega Gyarados in the middle of the painting.
I painted Se-Jun Park's Worlds winning team for an art exhibition!
"Caught 'em All" is running at Working Title Brew Co. in Brisbane throughout February, celebrating 30 years of Pokรฉmon!
OH oops I had my phone on mute when I previewed the video and didn't realise I'd had the background noise included.
She doesnโt quite sit properly as an earringโฆ might need to give it more length so thereโs more clearance between the figure and the side of the wearerโs face.
Photo of three miniatures made from 3D printed parts, ribbon and beadwork. They resemble the Pokรฉmon Flutter Mane, with slight differences between each model showing iterations in the design. The middle one is the largest and the two on the sides are the same size, even though the camera makes the one on the right appear larger than the one on the left.
Flutter mane family. Design is mostly done! Colours will still be adjusted and I need to order beads (I use spare parts for these prototypes and I juuuust barely had enough red-ish beads for two of the three)