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For her birthday mah sister requested a sculpture of that parrot I painted a while back.

This has been the most intensive clay thing I've done yet, but really fun. He's got a skeleton of steel wire and tinfoil welded together with super glue, I sanded the heck out of him to clean up lumps in the clay and used paint sparingly on him to avoid the acrylic getting too plasticy. I cooked him twice so I could add his feathers without worrying about squishing him while working. A good move. Will start doing more clay things in stages.

Also, his eyes glow in the dark. It's terrifying. C:

ALSO, I am at my parent's place for the week so I have been and am going to be pretty dead online. So you know!
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Mood: Love ~6133 May 22, 2013  New member Student Traditional Artist
Great role.
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~mad-genious Nov 24, 2012  Hobbyist Artist
Aaaaaw kawii
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~Kerpow Nov 23, 2012  Student General Artist
That is incredible! Really amazing job and clever idea to cook him twice! I shall think of this the next time i make something out of clay.
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~Susiron Nov 23, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Ohhh, I really like how you posed the feet on this. : O
Is he top heavy at all, or does he balance out well?
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*Altalamatox Nov 26, 2012
Thank you! I kind of feel like he looks like he's stabbing himself in the gut, but it couldn't be helped. XD He's actually impaled on the stick because he is in fact not balanced at all. His head's mostly tinfoil but it's still too heavy to be balanced. I should have tried putting a stone in his body or something, maybe that would've done the trick.
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~Susiron Nov 30, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
FTTTTT xD
It's still a very creative way to have him standing, regardless.
Well, I'm sure that knowledge will work well for your future clay sculptures. I hope to see more of these from you; they're already excellent, and I'm sure they'll just continue to get better the more you work with the medium. : D
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Mood: Love ~Nenu Nov 19, 2012
beautifull! for me the sculpure looks a bit funnier that the painting, or more panic XD
great!!!
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~Nashida Nov 19, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Never heard of the baking in stages thing, how long did you bake him for each time, and how long did you wait in between times? It looks like it did wonders here.

And have fun at the 'rents! We'll miss you here and will wait (as patiently as I can) until you come back.
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*Altalamatox Nov 26, 2012
I've baked things in pieces a few times, it comes in really handy for horns and other things that are easier to gouge into an unbaked figure than sculpt out of it. I baked this guy's tail separately as well so I could add it to him later and not have to work around it.

I don't bake clay for nearly as long as I think I'm supposed to. It's like fifteen minutes for a quarter inch? I think I did this guy fifteen minutes the first bake and maybe just ten the second time, because the unbaked additions were just the thin feather bits.

Aw, thank you! :)
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=TaesoSpiritDragon Nov 19, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Very cool, how long did you cook him in the different stages? I've seen people use that technique but never was quite sure how long to do it without burning the clay itself o_O
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