Making air dry clay figurines
by Dina | Apr 27, 2019 |
Over the past few years I have been creating air dry clay figurines. It was been a fun and fabulous creative adventure as I experiment with my progression from dressing other artists dolls to building my own. Much thanks needs to go the wonderful artists on Facebook and Patreon who’s guidance into sculpting has assisted me a lot!
This includes:
- Forest Rogers
- Sleetwealth (Nita Collins)
- Tina Yu
- Shifletts Brothers Sculpting Forum
Hope you find it useful, always the artist
Dina
Armature for my insect figurine hence the multiple arms
Abika’s body was being covered in permanent fabric so it remained rough, however her arms, head and legs are all ready for painting.
When I Grow up is a combination of clays. Her body is Premier air dry clay, her dress is cold porcelain clay – I love how it creates a smooth hard glossy finish.
My most lovely girl in a cocoon Promethea. Now sold, this lovely lass is an air dry clay figurine using mulberry paper over a wire sculpture mesh for the cocoon.
- Her body and head are finished in air dry clay
- Her lower legs and feet are mulberry paper mache with cold porcelain paste over wire.
- The feathers were added using cold porcelain clay. This achieves a finer more delicate covering than using the air dry clay.
- All my figurines use 6mm glass eyes.
Here I made a large deer body armature which included aluminum armature wire, foam blocks and paper tape.
The sculpted her with my own mix of airdry clay using wallpaper paste base, then Premier air dry clay for the body and decorative texture.
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Again with wire armature, using Apoxie sculpt to solidify the armature in the base and tail, then Premier airdry clay in the body and top coat, with cold porcelain clay for the finer details and leaves.
