Rachel Makes Stuff

Outside of television and film, Rachel is an interdisciplinary artist who loves to get her hands dirty, exploring and expressing herself through sculpture, paint, digital collage, sewing, and found objects. Scroll down for slideshows of different works, including classic character design and figure drawing.

  • Guernica, a Chess Set. Sculpture

    Rachel’s adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica as a chess set. War is a game played by the rich and the people are pawns.
    Materials: Polymer clay and cardboard.

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  • Portrait of the Artist

    This eye-catching piece came about through exercises and experiments in deconstructing a self portrait down to its simplest parts. A reverse gestalt, if you will.

    Materials: Polymer clay, armature wire, concrete

  • His Eye is on the Sparrow

    The death of an innocent bird was a metaphor for the ever-lingering question, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” In studying the found bird and finding its beauty through drawing and sculpture, the forward-looking question became, “To what end?”. What might grow from this? In this case, a sensitive and beautiful series of drawings, paintings and eventually, sculpture is what came of this sad event. The beauty that can come from grief will never transform the sad event into something good. The bad things will always be bad. But searching for the beauty can help us grow in empathy and to look forward and outward. Asking “To what end?” can draw people together.
    The use of concrete was helpful in representing both strength and fragility. Cracks and breaks are painted gold in the style of Kintsugi, again, to show beauty in the damage.
    Materials: sculpted in polymer, cast in concrete

  • Portrait of a Chair

    This triptych is a combination of drawing, painting, photography and digital paint. It’s part of larger, ongoing study of old and broken chairs as characters. Portraits - the living essence of an object with its own agency.

  • Chair studies in Pencil and Pen

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  • Life Studies

  • 5 minute pose

  • 5 minute pose

  • 10 minute pose

  • 30 second blind contour drawing

  • 5 minute pose

  • Designs

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  • Commissioned for series development

  • Design for commercial pitch

  • Envelope art

  • Envelope art

  • Commissioned beer label art featuring circus performers.

    Checkerhead Brewing

  • Commissioned beer label art featuring circus performers.

    Checkerhead Brewing

  • Commissioned beer label art featuring circus performers.

    Checkerhead Brewing

  • Commissioned beer label art featuring circus performers.

    Checkerhead Brewing

  • Commissioned beer label art featuring circus performers.

    Checkerhead Brewing

  • Commissioned beer label art featuring circus performers.

    Checkerhead Brewing

  • "Doodle-a-Day" - quick daily sketches

  • "Doodle-a-Day" - quick daily sketches

  • "Doodle-a-Day" - quick daily sketches

  • "Doodle-a-Day" - quick daily sketches

  • "Doodle-a-Day" - quick daily sketches

  • “Doodle-a-Day” - quick daily sketches

  • “Doodle-a-Day” - quick daily sketches

  • “Doodle-a-Day” - quick daily sketches

  • Pillar Capitals - commissioned designs

    A friend and international magician commissioned Rachel to take away his old and broken plaster pillar capitals from his heritage home and re-sculpt them into something unique with only a few sentimental requests made.

  • Select Paintings

    Materials: Acrylic, pen, marker

Lost and Found Machine

Lost and Found Machine is a portal to tiny adventures - a vending machine full of mysteries. Every day we step out into the unknown with the potential of a new adventure around an corner and it in our best interest to choose joy. This is what the Lost and Found Machine is about. Take a risk. Whatever you get - choose joy.
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Franken Toys

Rachel has been dismembering and re-membering old thrift toys into new and loveable art monsters since the age of 16. In 2011 she got noticed for her “Franken Toys” etsy shop and the bloggers went insane for some time after. Rachel still makes new Franken Toys on occasion, but mostly as gifts and door prizes.

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