20 janvier 2010
WIP 3 "Physalis" / painting + wings + NEW NAME ?
This is my next step : I painted the sleeves in the same color as the dress and the eyes were painted with brown colored gouache paint . I was pretty happy with this result , but she got ...well, how to say ....very brown huh hhihihih ....
To lighten up the overwhelming brown color , I added some tiny golden accents in her hair and gave my fairy some colored wings . These awesome wings were handmade by fairy artist Astrid Mulders (www.fairydreams.nl) . Aren't they great !!!!!!!
So that's what she looks like for now ...
I guess the only thing I still need to add are the final details like tiny flower decoration and fix her on a base ...
...oh yes, and finding her a new name ...Any ideas ????
16 janvier 2010
WIP 3 of Fairy "Physalis" / THE BIG CHANGE !!!
Thanks to some great suggestion from other artist friends, I finally decided not to throw away my fairy who really got messed up ...I was afraid to make anymore changes risking to ruin her even more ....
I decided to sculpt some sleeves and hair and cure one last time ...yes, the face has "tanned" a bit more but now the color diffrence seems less obvious , with the hair plugs covering the problem areas ....I also decided not to use the physalis fruit parts because they just dont fit ....so this fairy will get a completely new name ....djee , this fairy really must be doomed or maybe having a strong mind of her own hihihih ....
Here is she so far ..what ya think ???
TO BE CONTINUED ....
13 janvier 2010
WIP 2 of "Physalis" / BIG TROUBLE !!!!!!!
I worked further on my newest fairy ..I painted her outfit with brown acrylic paint ...looks like leather ...
And then I added the arms and ears and cured once again ....and that's when I got into BIG TROUBLE !!!!!
Well, you already know that polymer clay may darken a little bit while curing but this time I got a huuuge color difference !!!!!!! See it ??
I guess that's what you risk if you cure your creation more then once, building up piece by piece , like I always do ...but hey , its really the first time I had such huge colors difference ......and saying I used the same clay mix . Maybe I cured the first times on too high temp....PPfffff..anyway , this really s******!!!!!!!!!!!
So , I just wanted to warn you people !!!! This really may happen!!!!
Now the biggest problem is ..how to fix this ???? Well , I guess the best option is try to camouflate ....I think I will add some kinda "sleeves" of any other (painting ) decoration on the upper arms .
I wont risk more color difference by adding clayed hair and cure once again so I will just glue hair and make some hair plugs gently "fall" on her shoulders ....
Will I succeed in saving this fairy from eternal damnation and from gettting thrown into the garbage ??? hihihih
TO BE CONTINUED ....
06 janvier 2010
WIP 1 of "Physalis"
hello , I started this new year 2010 with a new fairy in my oven hihihih !!!
I dont know how she's gonna turn out , let's say I dont have concrete plans for her except that I will use brown and gold color shades and I also would like to use pieces of an exotic fruit called "physalis" .
I ate the yellow - orange fruit and its the fragile and paperlike covering leaves that I will use of course hihih
OK,I started off with the head which is not very perfect I must admid ...I will have to keep practicing on sculpting face features , that's for sure !!!!
After curing the head , I replaced the toothpick in the neck area by a thick metal wire and sculpted the torso on it and then cured it all again . The toothpicks sticking out of her back are introduced to create the holes in which I will put the wings ...
(sorry for the visible " nude" parts ..I hope im not offending anyone )
Then I created the base for the lower body ....using metallic wire covered with aluminium foil and then Modena (airdrying) clay ...
Then I added the clay dress (made of polymer clay clay )... After curing, the skirt ended up a bit cracked but I still have to paint it and add some extra decoration items on it so I think that at the end this wont be visible anymore.... I also had to remove her ears because they got burned ..i will sculpt them later on again ...
yeah, it does not always turn the way we want ....but I wont throw her away , I will try to get the best out of this sculpt !!!!
TO BE CONTINUED ....
03 janvier 2010
Mentionned at " La Companie des Creatices "
Hello,
Im proud to announce that my blog has been mentionned at the "La companie des creatrices" blog where you can discover the work of lots of talented people , mostly jewerly creators but also lots of other artists that make great unique creations !
http://ciedescreatrices.canalblog.com/archives/2009/12/p10-0.html
PS: merçi Shiva !!!!!
24 décembre 2009
My christmas wishes to you all !!!!
12 décembre 2009
In the middle of unfinished work ...
Hello,
Just to tell you I'm having lots of clay fun and Im trying to get some creations done by the end of this year ...I hope ....
some pictures of unfinished creations ....
I've also tried to make a new baby ...
...too bad the baby ended up too big to put into a beautiful ceramic egg ...I 'll have to find another base ppffffff ...
...I also took some time to make a new stock of usuable polymer clay ...I have 2 packages I dont use ..The first is fimo clay which got too hard and crumbly and the other is prosculpt clay of which I dont like the skin color (looks like dead meat once cured ) ...so I twisted , rolled , crushed and mixed both polymer clays together to obtain a new clay which is just awesome ...easy to sculpt and having a nice color .
I keep every mix inside glass jars because all the mixes may be different because I dont mesure the quantity of clays I mix together ...
10 décembre 2009
WIP Shiva's Shimmering Light
hello ,
This message goes about a gothic fairy I made . Its a commission work for my friend-artist Shiva.
This time I won't be a "full" sculpt but a doll with flexible limbs using wire to connect them to the body ...
I started with the head as usual , sculpted seperate arms and cured them before moving to the next step ...
Then I sculpted the "visible" part of the neck and upper torso and added the arms ... the hip area has been made with air drying clay ...
I added the legs (boots) to complete the flexible doll ...
The metallic wires of the doll are being wrapped with cotton and white sewing thread ...
...painted the face with acrylics and gouache paint ...
I covered the wire again with black colored thread and painted the boots with black acrylic paint ...
Then, adding the dress by glueing pieces of lace with tacky glue on the body ....
Making wings by drawing black glitter glue on transparant inktjet printerpaper ...
I found a gread base to pose the fairy on ...its a unique light holder , handmade and forged by my brother -in-law ...merçi, Alain !!!!!!!
Now I needed to add some hair ... Instead of just making plugs of hair and glueing them on the head , as usual , I used a ball of fleece wool. I divided it into three parts and wrapped some black wire on specific places ...and obtaining a wig ( or something like that hihih )
Now , I just had to place the wig on the head and fix it with glue ...
Check out some pcitures of the finished fairy in the photo album...
07 décembre 2009
Expo Sales at Kunstatelier "Steenborre"
Thanks to my friend and jewelry maker Shiva , I met another talented artist , Viviane Mahy. She is a painter but also makes beautiful and unique (silver) jewelry . She asked me if I could expose and sell some of my faerie creations in her Atelier in Buizingen !!
So Im proud to announce you that from now you can discover and buy some of my creations at Viviane Mahy’s Kunstatelier "Steenborre” . Of course, there you can also admire and buy Viviane’s art and Shiva’s jewelry creations.
Address: Hoogveld 1 , 1501Buizingen
Opening hours :
Tuesday & Thursday : 14h00 – 17h00
Wednesday & Friday : 14h00 – 19h00
During the month of December 2009 , the Atelier will we also open on:
Saturday , Sunday and Monday : 14h00- 18h00
04 décembre 2009
Making "Firefly" pendants
Sometimes I really dont feel like sculpting but my hands are still itching ...so I thought I 'd make some jewelry with glow-in-the-dark pebbles and with just a few tools and wire (I used black one) you can have lots of fun ....
yes yes , these pebbles really light up in the dark !!!!
I took two pieces of wire of the same lenght ...
and I twist them in the middle and obtain a loop in which you can introduce a lace ...
and now the fun part : twisting the wire around the pebble ...The difficult part was to twist and wrap the wire in such way that it wouldn't fall off from the pebble..as these pebbles dont have any hole I can introduce the wire , I dont have much to hold on but the pebble itself ...
Tip ...if you make those pendants yourself but dont have these pebbles at home, just make them out of "glow-in-the-dark" fimo polymer clay ....
And that's what you get :
Sometimes the wrapping and twisting goes wrong and becomes a mess and I get so frustrated that I end up by scrumbling my wire in my hand and getting this kinda "stuff" ...
...mmhh..I actually liked this scrumbled effect hihih ...I dont know what to do with this yet , but I'm gonna keep them , you never know I can create something very cool with it hihihi ...
