Mad Mouton - pics in progress...

Hello again!

I promised you in my last post that I would post the next day about one of my newest projects: a cranky little black and white (or will be after I paint him) sheep named Mad Mouton. Mad because I'm a bit tired of smiling snowmen, and 'Mouton' because it's the French word for sheep (singular and plural) and most anything sounds better in French!

So...here are some bad photos in chronological order of the process creation:

This is his head without eyebrows and topknot. Hm...he looks a bit more scared than irritated, I think.

(his eyes are 10 mil glass doll eyes)

He is made of paperclay over a styrofoam ball. This next stage is adding the rest of the face and ears...now he's looking irritated. ;-)...

and stamping swirls onto his body (boy am I gonna do that in two separate steps next time; kept squishing the stamped texture. :-(

adding his legs and front feet...

(This is next to another snowman;
Mouton is mad because I took the pic before
I finished his back hooves. Such a drama queen!)

At this point all three of them turned their backs on me, the ingrates! But that's okay because you can see his sassy new tail!

Tomorrow I'm gonna upload the pic with his new paint job...and then I'll need opinions on the color scheme. I'm not sure I like it yet. 

Nightie night! 

I'm Back!

Hello! I have been horrendously bad about writing my own blog, but now that I'm trying some 3 dimentional work and have some photos, I can post some stuff online...:-)

I'll start with some of my seasonal work in progress - my new line of snowmen characters.

I'd like to thank Moriah Betterly at MLB Studios http://mlbetterly.blogspot.com/ for kicking off my interest in this magical medium of paper clay. I was using polymer clay for my wall hanging spirit dolls, but I prefer this air-dry clay for my  3-D figures.

Thanks Moriah, and congrats on your publication in Art Doll Quarterly; great job! You know I love your work, even though you haven't heard from me in a year! LOL!


Here are some WIP pics:

This is my first snowman character. He is made of paper clay, over a styrofoam ball and wire armature. His hat is a wooden drawer pull with bells hanging from wires coming out the top. He stands in paper clay snow, on a star-shaped box which has been painted red and embossed with gold stars. He is holding a miniature snowman, and a friend of mine, Sandy Arieno, crocheted him a sporty looking red scarf to keep him warm!

This is another of my snowmen. I haven't had a chance to antique him yet...:-(
He is on a wooden base covered in paper clay/styrofoam ball-shaped snow drifts, and is juggling glass beads and a red heart (which are all magically staying in the air thanks to wire and glue! (sorry about the bad quality pics; haven't had a chance to take good ones yet). You can't see it well in this pic, but his belly has been stamped with a heart shape that I've painted glossy red! :-) His gloves will be red too, and I think I'll add some beads on the snows to look like he's dropped them.

Hugs all! Tomorrow I'll be adding pics of another snowman, and also some pics of my latest project, Mad Mouton, who is an irritated sheep. He's really cute when he's mad!

Ruth