Quackers

I have a friend who has a propensity for collecting rubber ducks...so I was bored one night and thought...hey, I can make a rubber duck out of clay...and then I thought...I can even make it into a magnet...so that's what I did. Aluminum foil as a base, then made him out of polymer clay. The magnet was glued on after it was baked with E6000. Good stuff.

The quotes are loosely from a great movie, "Peaceful Warrior."

Theodora...a female troll

So I made a female troll. I didn't enjoy it as much as the male ones...breasts are hard to make look right. Anyways. She's got very orange/red hair and a bit of a smile. Yes, she's still naked, but I haven't figured out a good way of dressing them -- not a fan of the clay clothes on a moveable figure, and the cloth ones are hard to make so small. She's the same size as Squirt roughly. Anyways, she's still a little character. The smaller feet and hands are getting easier, too. That's about it.

New troll

Ok, so it finally let me post another picture...I think it's more my internet than the site, but oh well. So this is a new troll, he's a big bigger than the first one, it made the fingers and toes easier. He's a troll, so he's supposed to be sorta ugly, but the eyes don't look right, one is sorta lower than the other, but it worked for Shannon Doherty, so I went with it. I'm really gonna have to start naming these guys. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to attach the arms and legs to the body. This guy has copper wire, and I coiled the ends. I tried using buttons, but they didn't look right. The head swivels a bit, too, which is kinda neat. I'm wondering if it's worth the posability or if I should just make them solid. I like the idea that he can move, maybe not the head as much, cause that's a bit dangerous, I keep on thinking somethings gonna break (it's just a ball in socket joint). Maybe I'll joint the elbows too and make sorta a marionette type guy, just for fun. I don't know what I'm gonna do about clothes yet, for now he's just a la natural.

Decent Troll

Ok, so now the troll has clothes and is somewhat presentable... as trolls go anyways. I really like this guy, think I'm gonna try him again, the face was fun, and you can change it a lot. the clothes were just thrown together from scraps. I still think he resembles Patrick Stewart for some reason... might just be the bald head and big nose.

Cap'n PiTroll

Troll...sorta looks like Patrick Stewart...in process.

Rose

White Sculpey with watercolor. Idea from Carol Duvall...she used a different type of clay and artist crayons or something, but my own spin on it...sorta splotchy, but interesting.

Frog

So, this is a frog. Polymer Clay. I figured it will be easier to show you what I'm doing here than try to email pics and such. So anything clay, cloth, whatever I'll just shove up here. (Yeah, I know I'm copying Bambs, but I don't think she'll mind.) The quarters are to give an idea of size. The eyes were baked after making an indention with the back of a paintbrush, colored clay was added and then the black was painted on. His design was from a new clay creatures book I got for Christmas. He actually came out better than I thought, love the face, especially the eyes, much better than the pin pricks from the other book I have.