I remember falling in love with this little guy back in 2009, but at the time Patrick (the sculptor) said, "Don't think there is a chance to make a cast. Unfortunately there are a lot of uncastable areas. I should change too much things." So it made me very happy when I found it recently in Patrick's P&P gallery (http://www.puttyandpaint.com/projects/1055) and saw that casts were available.
I painted him for this year's Rainbow Brush competition, which had an environment theme. I imagined IPIK as a sort of post-apocalyptic cyborg survivor, scrounging a living off of the remnants of a failed civilization, and bewildered when he comes across this alien green thing. So it seemed very fitting. I was lucky enough to come in first with this entry.
