Last
week I went out to Blick's on Beverly and bought some clay. Now that
I am done making Perler bead designs and haven't started knitting yet
I wanted something new to do. I'd done some sculpting in high school
but wouldn't say that I was good at it. I found this clay, Della
Robbia, that comes in a 4 pound square for about $6.
I
decided to make a small bear (not pictured) and then for whatever
reason an alien hand. The one with three fingers. I liked the way it
looked and then made another one. I thought I was done but then I
decided to paint them. This is when things got weird.
The
green one looks and feels cool. They look bigger than they are which
is why I added the quarter for scaling purposes. I used probably four
coat of Modge Podge for this which seems excessive but each coat I
added made it feel stranger and smoother so I liked it.
For
the fatter hand I planned on just painting it brown and maybe etching
in some fur. But then I painted it red and mixed in a bit of brown.
After a few coats of Modge Podge I wanted it to get weirder because
it was too plain. So I added an eye.
I have
a bag of googly eyes that Cam gave me years ago and never got to use
them for anything. Then I flipped the hand over and thought “More
googly eyes.” So I added more. Lots more.
These
are really fun to look at as they sit across the room from me on the
chair. They are really shiny and look wet which is cool. The googly
eyes move so if you pick up the red one the eyes move around. The
green one feels like someone chopped an aliens' hand off. I look
forward to making some creepy ass face next.
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