Thursday, April 21, 2011

Etsy Ugly Cute Oomoos

What is an Oomoo, you may ask? An Oomoo is an adorable, environmentally-friendly sculpture created by Chris Davies of floatingwoo on Etsy. It is cast from a combination of gypsum and acrylic fortifiers, and the texture feels quite smooth, like porcelain.

Chris initiated a discussion in our Etsy Ugly Cute Team Forum, proposing an Oomoo "team project" and we jumped at the opportunity to collaborate with Chris and his unique critters.

I received my Oomoo last week and I'm really looking forward to working on him:



Chris' Oomoo has made fast friends with my Oxybear:



Here are two custom Oomoos from our Etsy Ugly Cute Team members:

Brienna
Brienna's Etsy Shop




Amber
Amber's Etsy Shop

5 comments:

  1. Awesome!I love the pic with the Oomoo snuggling up with Oxybear. The outdoor shot makes him look a lot larger, in fact when I first started drawing this little guy I had small porthole windows in the sides. I had envisioned him as a large sculpture that my kids could actually get in to. Wouldn't that have surprised the neighbors having this guy looking over the fence. He He

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  2. Hey Chris- I'm so happy you like my photos! I just love your Oomoo- I can't wait to get started working on him! A giant Oomoo that you could crawl through- that would be awesome! You should do it! You could then have "Oomoo Parade!" :)

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  3. That would be really funny to see a whole bunch of Oomoos looking right over your neighbor's fence... hee hee...

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  4. Couldn't you just see these guys in the "Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade" as giant balloons!!!

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  5. That would be the coolest ever! I'd be proud to be one of the people below helping to hold them up!

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