PETERKATO

The largest, chunkiest figure I have made to date at 3 inches high and 1& 3/4 wide this fella has some weight to it. 

Due to be released nextweek I am excited for everyone to tell me their thoughts on him. 

Here is a test shot of the first piece printed , then sanded and primed.

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!

It's definitely the more chilly season of Fall this year, so to help warm you up I'd like to introduce you to the third colorwave for Mogu-Tank(Mole-Tank),   Mocha flavor! Limited to 10 pieces grab one quick! Also with popular demand(thank you all) the Army Jacks are back in stock on the shop( at least 24 in stock). So , enjoy!

Ramen Burger

HellyBlue

Orchid~

Veterans day

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...

Its that time~, just in time for Halloween, FrightBite is back and in a huge 66 original painted variety! One of my personal favs of my early hand sculpting pieces, FrightBite makes his return with a first run linocut print as well. Sized 5x7 on vintage newsprint paper limited to11 pcs. Visitors to the Arts Gowanus Open Studios this weekend( Oct 19 & 20 Saturday & Sunday ) will get to hand select & purchase their pieces as well as shop for other in studio only items.

Jan 27th 2013

Hello everyone~ happy new year & hope you are all doing well. I haven't been on the grid(IG, Facebook, twitter) or the Indie Toy scene in awhile, have been really busy with my recent studio space-expansion. All is going great, tons of construction and custom interiors being worked on or built. Due to this I won't be able to work on any new items for the webshop for awhile. As the schedule looks for now I feel I will finish construction & be up and running again at some point in March 2013. Thank...

 So my daytime job is at this artists studio in NY called John Derian Co. where we focus on producing handmade decoupage plates, platters, paperweights, coasters and bowls . His designs are sold at upscale home stores, in catalogs, and gift shops worldwide. It's a wonderful place to work where the people are very good to me. I get to assist in design & production and have learned many unique skills that I otherwise would not have gotten to learn had I not worked here. Artist HealeyMade actually worked here first( as one of the skilled artisans in production) & got...

 Here are some pics sent to me from SDCC 2012(GiantRobot booth #1729). Wish I were there this year but had to focus everything for some future Productions.

Along with the GiantRobot Turtle Tetsujin exclusive , there are also Tasty Rainbow editions of my other figures & free pins with purchase available at the booth.

Tasty Rainbows~

And free with purchase peterkato x giantrobot pins~

Also I was asked by Toysrevil to give a top-ten toys from SDCC wishlist. Checkout...

Now , I haven't tried to do a haiku in like, a million years but I recently saw one of my favorite instagram accounts(mohojung) post an amazingly cute picture. Which inspired me. She titled her photo "philosophers' soba"

あつい　なつ

ひやし　そば　たべ

カワコ　すき

hot summer

hiyashi soba eat

kawako loves

Let's have a great summer everyone!

 For SDCC 2012 I will be teaming up with Giant Robot for an exclusive Turtle Tetsujin release.

Cast in sea-foam green( chosen by Eric Nakamura of GR) and have accents of goldleaf & clear green paint. The torso this time around will have the Giant Robot Logo: Big Boss Robot imbedded inside it. I have long wanted to work with Giant Robot and am very excited about this collaboration.

They will be $20 each limited to 20 pieces. SDCC booth #1729

http://www.giantrobot.com

Here's a discovery I found on instagram. It's called the little red door & the artist here makes these cute ceramic mini houses in a variety of choices. Whether its a gnome-like house, cherry bushed house, or customizable alphabet houses ( like the ones I had ordered) they are all hand-made, all beautiful. They reminded me of the Valentine Day Turtle Tetsujins I had done earlier in the year. Toni the artist of the little red door had included some wonderful gifts, candies, postcards and to my surprise extra houses! I got a great red house with a little black...

To my surprise earlier in the week I had received a tweet from the Design Toy Awards group. I found out that my Japan Charity figures , the Hinomaru Turtle Tetsujins had been entered into two catagories for this years awards: Best Self-Produced & Best Toy of the Year.

To be included on the list with so many veterans in this industry is really amazing. I honestly thought it was a mistake of some kind( like some twitter-hacking prank or something), but as I checked the link to the DTA 2012 pages I saw that my figure was up there...

 Today I had gotten a tweet by the University of Muscle, a site dedicated to all things inspired by Kinnikuman Muscle figures and such. I had seen the site many times before ( especially when I was buying up those mini muscle figures to increase my personal collection).

The site had done an article about my Man-Nie figure. It was such a thoughtful , well written article covering so many aspects of the figure. The only other time I had experienced such interest in that particular figure was when I first got contacted by Niall of what was at the...

 Here are two wonderful instagrammers that were nice enough to make fan art of my characters:

First up is Bodz Zaman ( IG handle: bodzilla ) who loves to draw( like me). Here is his drawing of FrightBite floating through a forest scene:

Next up is an amazing IG collage-weaver mo LaPastequeBleue( IG handle: mohojung ), I had never scene anything like her work on IG before & I'm so lucky that she likes my characters enough to incorporate them into these great little fantasy scenes. Her themes vary from comical to...

 We're finally here & the discounted Blue Harvest stock is all here~! This sale is the first of a "Memorial weekendish Annual sales event", the only difference with this sale is that the stock is all new specifically made for he theme! Enjoy~

 I'm one of the artist in the upcoming "Game Over Video Game Culture Art Exhibition" at GiantRobot2 in LA, opening reception is this Saturday June 2nd from 6:30-10pm. The show runs till June 27th, so if you are in LA at the time please check it out !

June 2 -  June 27, 2012
Opening reception Saturday June 2th 2012, 6:30-10pm

GR2 – 2062 Sawtelle Blvd LA, CA 90025 www.gr2.net 310 445 9276

Giant Robot 2 (GR2) presents: Game Over

Video Game Culture Art Exhibition

Artists include:

Aaron Brown, Albert Reyes, Alex Chiu, Ana...

 Please check out my artists interview on myplasticheart ! This wonderful little store has been so supportive of my work from day one!

Big thanks to Jessica for the interview~

  http://www.myplasticblog.com/interviews/interview-with-peter-kato/

                (above Specimouse with creator: Anney Fresh!)

Was very excited to have Anney Fresh in the show, I've admired her work years back with her giant Space Kitty costumes ( you guys have to check: www.anneyfresh.com ). Her piece grabbed a lot of attention opening night & you can see why~!

Q: what was your inspiration for your piece?

A: I'm obsessed with cats and mice so I wanted Buddy to catch some kind of mouse creature. I was thinking about how cats...