It's pretty clear that I love dragons. I'd be very happy only building them. I also like cats. You may have seen one of my cats, Eddy, in a couple of my videos. I currently have three cats. I'm not exactly sure how that happened. I had one. I blinked. I had three. Eddy is constantly underfoot particularly when I'm trying to do art. I actually think that he just likes dragons too. In fact, I've decided that cats and dragons have a lot in common. I've decided to make a series of dragons that have cat characteristics. My first attempts can be seen in the "Paper Mache Dragon Baby" video you may have already seen on the home page (I put it below as well in case you missed it). I thought I'd use this page to detail the making of that project. Of course you should definitely watch the Baby video if you haven't already. Thanks for looking!
Photo 4 Here is final dragon scratching her eye with her hind leg.
Photo 6 Here she is with finished wings.
Photo 3 The hind leg is poised to scratch. I just needed an eye.
Photo 5 Of course I wanted this dragon to have wings. Here is the "skeleton" of the wings.
Photo 7 Now everyone knows that a mother dragon wouldn't be a mother if she didn't have babies. I made these two for her. Once again, I tried to incorporate cat features into the babies. They have triangular faces and big ears, like kittens. And the attitudes are rather kitten like I think. You can see the making of the "kitten" on the right in the Baby video. I've included it on this page just in case you want to watch it again.
"A Little Pride"
Here is the finished product.
I filmed my second attempt to connect the genres. My video, "Parallel Paper Mache," profiled a baby lion cub and his twin dragon brother. Watch the video on the home page or video page.
Not much difference between a lion and a dragon. Q.E.D.