My First Official Request! This One Is For My Biggest Fan, Also Known As Mom. She's AnEgyptologistand

My first official request! This one is for my biggest fan, also known as Mom. She's an Egyptologist and she asked for "something Egyptian," so I made her a little statue of her favorite god, Anubis. I wanted to use the Sculpey III for color, but the clay is so much drier and tougher than Super Sculpey, so I wasn't able to be as detailed as I would have liked. The constant crumbling meant I couldn't touch a section once I finished it, and his ankh may or may not have looked like a crucifix at several points. Nevertheless, I have prevailed! Hope you like him, Mom.

(Here's the form if you want something, too.)

Sculpey III, ~2 hours

Three bees today, taking advantage of the lovely weather outside today. Tried Sculpey III for the first time and found it a little tough to mold, although the fact that it was firm enough to hold its shape was nice. Tried out a few different styles, too. Unsurprisingly, the Play-Doh bee (yellow and blue) looks terrible and wanted to fall apart, but it was really helpful to make more or less the same shape in three different media right after each other. If for no other reason than to reaffirm my undying love for Super Sculpey (<3!).

Play-Doh (yellow and blue), Super Sculpey (pink), and Sculpey III (black), ~50 min.

Another test model from the big book of polymer mythical creatures. The sample image looks completely different, but I like my little guy much better. Sadly, he didn't photograph so well (part of that was waiting too long and missing the best light, part of it is those ridiculous arms), but he's still pretty cute.

Super Sculpey, 18 min.

Today was an exercise in good intentions gone awry. I tried to get this one done early in time to catch the light, and in the process of transporting everything across the street I dropped my camera, my tools, the figure itself, and my palette (the latter of which shattered), and after all that I didn't even get the shot I wanted. Oh well.

I was going for "mermaid being blown out of her aquarium/bowl by a strong wind." What, you're saying that doesn't translate?

Super Sculpey, ~60 min.

vacation!

I went to London and New York to see some of my favorite people, but the figures will resume August 27!

Unless I'm jetlagged. August 28 for sure!

Rhonda tells me "sloths are the new birds" (in reference to the hip animal du jour), so she requested that I make her a sloth. She did not specify that it be anorexic, nor that it only have fur on the right side of its body. I took those artistic liberties myself.

Super Sculpey, ~90 min.