Day 1 – 01/20/12 – Tuskie

Polymer Clay (Sculpey)

I had no idea what I was doing when I started this one, and I also have not had a whole lot of good results with polymer clay in the past. But I decided I would give it another shot. It started with the tail, then the body, lower jaw, tusks, back of the head, upper jaw, eyes, and spots. So as a true monster, he looks like none of his parts really match. Perfect!

Things I learned about working with polymer clay:
Make sure your hands are really clean so you don’t get dust and dirt in your clay.
Trim your nails.
Kneading clay straight from the package hurts!

Day 2 – 01/21/12 - Oulson

Polymer Clay (Sculpey)

Taking my own advice from day 1, I made sure my hands were much cleaner and my nails were trimmed. I rolled a bit of the off-white and chocolate color together, made some pointed ears, and started adding appendages (two curly tails and two monster claws) for support. Day 2 = Success!

I think I’ve had enough good results with this stuff (read: not burning them) to pursue it further and invest in a few clay tools. I hope also that throughout the year I figure out where that sweetspot is on my camera’s macro setting so things stop coming out blurry!

More monsters next week!