Izzy

Izzy was done for the Bryson's auction at the Ruffdogs forum. The winning bidder was Lesley and she commissioned one of her dogs. I opted for Izzy.

Izzy is sculpted over a wire and foil armature with doll fimo, painted with acrylics and sealed with Arleens matt varnish, she has glass eyes of amber and is furred with alpaca.

Here's some pics. I recently purchased a little personal groomer, designed for nose hair, neck line etc, I bought it purely for grooming models with and it works great! I was a bit nervous about cutting everything off, but I managed to avoid doing that. I was also really painstaking with cutting my flocking. I've found using a little pair of embroidery scissors works best for me to cut it really fine. The result being there's less fly away looking hairs in the pics. Hurrah! Izzy was described as being naughty, stealing things and running off with them and showing off. So I felt the urge to make her with her mouth open in order to hold things. I've made her a couple of toys, the pipe cleaner ones fit in her mouth. But I'm sure she's ready to steal something she shouldn't have at any minute and is offering her paw cheekily. Hey, her and Ludo have something in common!

Whilst I was packing her up I had to guard the table, I had a lemon and a garlic bulb on the table and I later found the garlic with chew marks on the floor and the lemon else where. I wasn't even angry, I just though, thank God it wasn't Izzy! Lol!

She's my first dog with teeth and they were a pain! I baked them then super glued them into her mouth.