But it looks like it won't arrive until after I move to Vancouver! Which I'll be doing in the next two weeks. I'm quite excited, for various reasons... but clay-related? I shouldn't need to order my clay from unreliable online stores! YAY!
I wanted to make something tonight but I didn't really feel like making any mini-food. I decided to make a little charm instead! I found yet another tutorial on DeviantArt. I seriously love penguins, so this was right up my alley. All of the following pictures are taken with my iPhone, which is less fussy than my Nikon in the low-light of my room!
I have two blue Fimo, Pacific Blue and Brilliant Blue. I chose the former, since it seemed a bit bolder.
I chopped off a fair-sized chunk, larger than I tend to work with for my miniatures.
And then shaped it as instructed. I thought about going WILD AND CRAZY, but that would mess with the Penguinuity (which is now a word) of it.
I don't recall my hand being this blue...
After a bit of scrubbing, my hand returned to it's normal, not Na'vi color. Translucent white.
You can see the little flecks of STUFF (probably blue Fimo.) in the white, unfortunately. That stuff is disturbingly difficult to keep clean. I swear that just looking at it funny makes it all speckley. This was before I gave him his beak, feet and eyes. I didn't have any black beads on hand so I had to improvise with a bit of black Fimo.
And just before the little man spent his time in the oven! I can see why they recommend beads.
I'll have to glaze him later since he's still a bit warm. But my fat little Penguin is complete!
Hello!
ReplyDeleteIf you find that the blue gets into the white clay,I think working with white first then blue would help. Keeping your work surface and hands clean would also help! :D