dress

Looks mechanical now, just wait!

Fairy parts.

Can you see her Apoxy skeleton? I'm working on a 14" fairy sculpture at the moment.
Wow, it takes a lot of different art supplies to create her. So far: Apoxy Sculpt for the armature of the body, over wire; cardboard, bamboo skewers, Sculpamold and hot glue gun for the base (her dress); sticky-back vellum, Angelina film, wire, glitter, glitter glue, Gorilla glue for the wings (and a soldering iron); polymer clay, pearl-ex, genesis paint and UV resin for the eyeballs; 2 different kinds of mohair for the wig; PuppenFimo and Cernit for her skin. And I'm not sure yet if I will use actual fabric, or a layer of paperclay and paint for the dress...I'll make that decision once I have her body finished, but I'm leaning toward paperclay. Then there's the lantern- she is a Seeker in the Dark- she is leaning over, holding out a lantern that really lights up. I have a design dilemma to work out, because the lantern has batteries that will need to be changed, and a button that needs to be pressed. So I have to engineer it so it works, lights up, and is removable from the sculpture for maintenance. I'm thinking maybe one of those cigar tins that individual expensive cigars come in, with holes poked in it to let the light out.