The giant alien, with whom I used an exercise ball for the armature, is looking ready for the next step – troweling clay over his…
Panda is on the wall, and I’m adding a fresh batch of clay. Happy with the new approach on the eyes, and the cleat system…
Bolts with a large washer sandwich were added to the panda wall sculpture. A layer of concrete paper clay to strengthen and anchor the back…
I started this Panda back in February and got as far as adding a paper mache skin over a cardboard armature. Then it came crashing…
Painting sprinkles on Stanley’s doughnut at art group. Stanley enjoyed lunch and chatting with the girls at the art group.
Sculpture of Stanley, the little blue bird, with his first coat of glossy varnish. This is my first time using DecoArt’s Tripple Thick Glaze varnish,…
Stanley told me he wanted to hold his favorite doughnut, pink frosted with rainbow sprinkles. It is coming right up, Sir! The first coat of…
I wanted a unique way to sign the Stanley bird sculpture and decided to try a name plaque on the back of the chair. I…
Sculpting Stanley’s doughnut using a round potter sponge as my armature. I cut a hole in the sponge and coated it with gesso, which did…
Adding the layers of plaster to the Lil Bird, I used a Potter sponge to smooth the plaster. While waiting for the plaster to dry,…
Covering the giraffe head with paper strips took about five hours, but now I have a firm, hollow shape to begin my sculpture. It’s strong…
I’m using torn strips of a paper bag with Tightbond lll wood glue for the paper mache on this giant giraffe head. I started with…
I have found the courage to return to the giant giraffe head I started months ago. I enlarged this pattern by Joni Good at Ultimate…
It was difficult to sculpt smaller details with the concrete paper clay on the baby bird, so I tried adding epoxy clay to see if…
Sanding and filling the surface of the second alien in preparation for paint. My first two coats are using a drywall joint compound with a…
With the second coat dry, it was time to deflate the exercise ball and see if the sculpture would hold shape. This was a very…