A couple of our past projects have recently been featured in the press. Its always nice to get our work noticed. Both projects were done with Christine Burdick Designs, though they were nearly a year apart. In the Fall 2017 edition of the quarterly magazine, Best of Burlington, is a featured article about the multi-million dollar renovation of The Essex which we were a part of this year. We have a blog post about that extensive project- creating hundreds of culinary inspir

Just shipped out a cool new project and had to write something up to share on how it came together. My friends at Smooth-On asked me to create a version of the legendary Xenomorph from the Alien film franchise. Being a huge fan, I was psyched. Though the original HR Giger design on Alien is amazing, without a doubt one of the best, most original creature designs in film history, I've always loved the "warrior" variant from James Cameron's film ALIENS created by Stan Winsto

"Why are you making that?" Well, they asked me to. My shop gets requests for strange things. Thing people aren't sure can be made for their budget. I laugh a little when I get a call and someone says something like "Ok, this might sounds weird, but could you make us ____? " I laugh because it might sound weird to them, but welcome to the Arcana Workshop. Arcane knowledge of materials and methods to make...whatever. So that leads into this project that came through Chr

Happy Halloween! Got to thinking today about Halloween's past, October's past and making all kinds of sculptures and figure displays, and latex masks in the past. Wanted to write a quick post to share some of those fun projects from Halloween seasons past. In 2014, I created a silicone bust for the "Art of Horror" show at Burlington's S.P.A.C.E. Gallery. It was the first time I'd ever been involved in an art gallery show and it was a lot of fun. My piece was inspired by t

Just a few weeks ago was the NY Comic Con and I was lucky enough to have created a custom figure that was on display there. I sculpted and fabricated an original fantasy figure for the company, Smooth-On, to showcase many of their "mind-blwoing" products at their booth for the con. This was a wonderful opportunity that was fun, challenging, intense and ultimately rewarding in many ways. I want to share a little of the "behind the scenes" in this blog and here we can dig i