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Teapot mockups

Admin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:04:37 +0000

Okay, I have some mockups for the teapots, I created three basic types for this, the elegant serving teapot ready to be painted silver used for fancy parties, the standard teapot for everyday use and the tea kettle for brewing teas and ideal for painting flat black to make a cast iron tea kettle for use on a wood cook stove.

These are the three I made, they range in sizes between 1″ for the short stout tea kettle and 1.5″ for the tall elegant tea kettle on the left. They are obviously rough and not fired, being just basic shape explorations to decide which ones I like. The handle on the tea kettle is a large staple with clay on it, I will use a different kind of wire when I make the finished tea kettle.

For now I need to get a fashion doll and see how the teapots measure up, since I am not sure what the scale is for fashion dolls. I also need to get batteries for my camera. This picture was taken with what I had thought was a new set, however as soon as I took the picture (without flash) the low battery light came on!

Tutorials for younger OOAK artists

Admin — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:29:05 +0000

Having a grand niece that is beginning to get interested in learning to make things out of polymer clay I have decided to work on some tutorials for the site for younger OOAK artists. I hope to have the first one up by tomorrow, and any feedback that anyone has for how to make them more user friendly would be greatly appreciated.

Making fairy wings using velum for scrapbooking

Admin — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:34:42 +0000

I was playing around with ways to print out fairy wings the other night and discovered that you can get a fairly good looking wing with an opaque look to it by printing the wings on the velum sheets intended for scrapbooking. Feeding one of the sheets into my computer’s inkjet printer I was able to print out a very nice series of wings.

After printing the sheet I cut out a set of wings which I will be using to make a Christmas themed fairy. I’m still in the planning stages on the figure, and have a lot of other figures that I have to work on before I can actually start working on the Christmas themed fairy, so it will probably be closer to Valentines Day before the figure is finished.

This picture shows what the wings look like when paired with a very roughly tossed together figure posing like a manikin with them. I will be modifying the wings from this point to get more of a fairy type look to them rather than a butterfly type look. When I get to that stage I will take more pictures and share what the fairy looks like then.

If you are not looking to create your own wings like this, I would suggest looking into the wings made by Caressa (AKA: Cute_Scooby) at eBay. I just ordered one of her sets of pre-made wings and one of the wing making kits that she has up for auction at eBay. I’ll let you know what I think of the wings and the kit when I get them.

You can also find Caressa’s pre-made wings at The Morezmore Estate at eBay. I love Morezmore, I have got quite a few things from her, including the convection oven that I am currently using. If you need it for your OOAK project, prosculpt to mohair, then you can probably find it at Morezmore.

Working on my first baby OOAK scuplture

Admin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:59:24 +0000

I bought a wonderful tutorial on making OOAK babies last night. “LEARN HOW TO SCULPT A POLYMER CLAY OOAK BABY FAIRY” by Goddess-Dreams. I was highly impressed by the tutorial and have already got a really good start on making my own little baby. No snickering, I’ve never tried to make a baby before, I know it sucks right now, but I’m only a few hours into working on it.

I was not sure just what pose to use for the fellow, since I have never made a baby figure before, so I went for trying to make it look like the baby was either just starting to get up or had just fallen while chasing a butterfly.

I really like how the face turned out, since I could not find the tools when I decided I wanted to work on this figure so I ended up using my fingernails and a small knitting needle tool that I was able to find. I have since located the box with my tools in it, so should be able to get to get the baby looking right as I go along.

I’m using a mixture of Caucasian toned ProSculpt and translucent Sculpey on this figure.

To find the how to sculpt a baby in polymer clay tutorial by Goddess-Dreams click here for eBay and search for “LEARN HOW TO SCULPT A POLYMER CLAY OOAK BABY FAIRY”