PETERKATO

Bedtime Stories .

Bedtime Bunnies Custom Exhibition @myplasticheart NYC with Opening Reception July 11 2015 ( 7-10pm ) . 

Thirty plus artist joining in to present their wonderful visions in bedtime story inspired , customized Bedtime Bunnies. 

I'd like to introduce a new artist to this indie toy community that we so love. Her name is Seulgie and she started her apprenticeship under me in 2014. Like my first apprentice in 2013 Kevin Nam of Inamitoyland , Seuglie had no previous sculpting or studio experience at all. In the seven months she studied under me I taught her hand sculpting from scratch, silicone mold making, resin casting and techniques in sanding and finishing. She has come a long way and I am so proud of her ability, level of respect and hardwork. My students...

Return of Bad Knight

It's been awhile since the Robotic Knight has been seen & with many requests for its return I have worked hard on bringing him back in one of my favorite colors of all time: Metallic Blue. This color combo ( with the shield red & eyes yellow) reminds me of the old japanese robot Tetsujin 28 ( aka Gigantor ). There will be 8 pieces for this edition & each 3.5 inch figure is priced at $40 each piece hand painted and hand produced. Figure will go on sale Thursday 8pm eastern time here...

The Bad Knight...started this design back in 2010. Didn't have the skills necessary to complete the sculpt until now. Very proud of this piece, was always meant to be the follow up to the evil war robots series that started with Ninja-Robo years ago. So they will be both available this thursday September 4th 2014 at 9pm eastern time here on peterkatoshop.com. This first series of Bad Knights are an edition of 8 pieces and come in Metallic Grey with Red Shield. The Ninja-Robo will be returning as their X-varient debut colors of blue with clear red...

New Bunnies coming at a new release time: this Wednesday 9pm here at peterkatoshop.com !

Very excited about this color variety, really took my time to get that right deep level of purple, definitely one of my favorites( i hope it will be yours). See you soon!

peter~

Tuesday April 15th the nyc gallery toystore myplasticheart will release their colorwave for my Bedtime Bunnies. The assortment includes a color variation of light violets, chic yellows, light blues all with contrasting bunnie-slippers. The gallery-store has always been very supportive of my pieces so it was a pleasure to give them such a varied "easter" batch. This time the batch have been organized as a blind assortment so i have included a special chase figure, one golden bunnie with a black felted bottom. I hope you like the figures & please stop in at myplasticheart if you're in...

Writing this post in the dead of night, excited and sleepless. It's that hour my Bedtime Bunnies rise and begin their rem state playing. 

I was inspired in the last months by illustrated artwork by artists who had themes of sleep, animals and fairies. I wanted to share that feeling in a new sculpt and i feel i have

with these companions of insomnia. They were intented to stay with you as you had those nights you just couldn't get to sleep. i hope you like them and have room on your nightime 

shelf of...

Ghost Butler, he's Happy to Serve...eternally.

Loyal & Polite Ghost Butler will never leave your side, he was made to be that bring along toy companion. He comes from that side of my imagination that birthed other ghoulish figures in the past like FrightBite & Kawako. He is a mix of the old bedsheets ghost & a bit of a Casper anatomy ( although I've imagined his roundness to look more like Alfred Hitchcock than others) . I have always loved ghosts toys, collected old ones from Kinder Egg collections to more recent arttoys such as Boo...

Happy New Year everyone, hope it was super fun & you were granted many wishes. I've been busy in the work shop making brand new sculpted resin toys, all will be ready soon and will be released one by one. See you very very soon!

So the 17th Annual Gowanus Open Studios come to an end. Here at the Cortes Studio didn't know what to expect so we just tried not to think too much and just let things happen. The weekend was packed with visitors ( art enthusiasts , fellow artists and neighborhood friendlies ) . It was really a  lot of fun, on Sunday before it all began me and my studio-mates took time and went to check out the other artists spaces in the building. It was such a surprise to see how diverse everyones areas were...