Tuesday, January 13, 2015

My Mermaid taking a bubble bath because she lives in the desert.

This is a wood elf with his bow.

This is my winter fairy. She is designed to be hung surrounded by snowflakes and she is reaching for the perfect one. 
This is a distance photo of her now she has clear line attached to her so so appears to be flying.



This gentleman is inspired by Edward the Troll from Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters. I made his clothes from leather I had on hand and the pants and tank top are felt I also had on hand.

Here is a full body shot of him. I think he turned out really well.

This is Masquerade. She is dressed in her ball gown ready to go to a party. The top half of her is polymer clay and the bottom half under the skirt of her gown is made from a metal basket.

Here she is with her mask. Once the mask is painted it will resemble a human face. 

This sweet little girl was made for my daughter who has an obsession with elephants.

All the eyes on my creations, other than the Mermaid which I painted, were made by me this is the second step of the process of making the eyes. In this step I have created the balls of the eyes with white clay mixed with translucent clay to give them a more realistic look. Once the balls of clay are made I used the flat part of a nail head to make the indentations and then I bake them. After they cool I paint the eye color with heat set paint by Genesis. These that are painted are green but you can do any color in your imagination! I set the paint with a heat gun.

These are completed eyes I have made. 


This is the product I use to make the eyes. This stuff needs to be cured in UV light which I have done in basic sunlight outside, it cannot be cured through a window, which I have an abundance of where I live. I ended up buying a UV light of the same brand to cure them faster. The eyes need a two step process. First is  drop of this in the indentation of the eye so it bumps up like a real iris does on a real eye.  They must sit for a short while to make sure all of the bubbles if any rise to the top. The bubbles then can be removed prior to curing. It is important to let the bubbles rise because if the eyes is cured with bubbles in them you will not want to use them with eyes unless you use them in a specific sculpture. They are then cured until firm and done. Then once its cured I place another drop on the "eye" and let in run over the edges of the eye. It's okay to be a little messy though you don't want to waste too much resin. Then it is cured once more. You can gently trim the resin that has run over but you must use a very sharp Xacto knife to to this to prevent cracking of the resin. 


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