Clay Art Challenge Day 20

I went with smaller eyes on this fellow today. And a spiky sort of shell.

Clay Art Challenge Day 5

Into the 5th day of creating 30 small sculptures in 30 days. Today's snail starts out with an aluminum wire body covered with aluminum foil.

 Super Sculpey Firm clay being added to the body. The mouth also started.

 I like to bake the polymer clay shell first. Then I can test it to the unbaked clay snail. A hemostat comes in handy for holding small parts while adding texture to the clay.

 Glossing the eyes is getting to be my favorite step. It means I'm almost done!

Well here he is. My wife said something about the nose and teeth reminding her of a horse. So okay we'll call this one a horse snail.

Clay Art Challenge

I thought I'd try my hand at an art challenge. Most of the work I do takes weeks to complete. So my goal was to create a new sculpture each day for 30 days.

My first piece is going to be my take on a hybrid snail creature.

For the armature I used galvanized steel wire. This I bulked out with foil. Over the foil I applied a veneer of Ave's Apoxie Sculpt clay. Here is the body with Super Sculpey being added. While I had my supplies out I prepared a second armature ( seen in the rear of the photo ) for my next creature.

Here is the snail with its teeth and feelers added.

A ball of tightly packed foil formed the armature for the snail's shell which I'm sculpting in polymer clay.

Here is the completed snail slinking around my outdoor steps.