WIP and an idea

I am in the middle of a cat sculpture of a RB kitty called Bailey, who belonged to a friend of my blog friend Dawn. He is my first commission of an animal who is no longer alive so I am pretty nervous, I hope I do him justice. I'm taking my time and I'm all ready to go with the furring now, just waiting for the last of my supplies to arrive.


I didn't dare try and pain that close to his lovely green glass eyes so I tried applying powder pigment with a toothpick to his eyelids and between his paw pads before he was cured (baked)



If you bigify this pic you can see what pose I am attempting to recreate. Thanks to Dawn and his owners I have some lovely photos to work from.

Earlier in the week I sorted out my craft area, I reorganised my drawers and I can actually find stuff now! I love to be organised but I'm naturally very untidy. My mind's a bit cluttered so is my workspace! lol. I'm a terrible magpie and have a very small living space. So it's easy to clutter up.

In the meantime I've also been working on a couple of other bits. I brought a 'dog encyclopedia' 2 volume set from a second hand book store and reading about the dog breeds inspired me to try and create some scenes. These will be unfurred and I will be trying to utilize some of the stuff I have been finding on the beach. I'm going to call it a 'born for' series, featuring dogs in natural looking settings and poses, exhibiting what they were historically designed for.

Well, that's the concept anyway. They wont be hugely realistic scenes but I can't seem to help making the dogs at least partly realistic.

Here's a basset hound. His sandstone base is in the oven at the mo. (so he wont fall off it) The basset is 1/12th scale, not neccessary since he wont be in a dolls house (although he will be removeable so could be, but it's good practice regardless)





And here is a little scene, made with scenic water, awaiting a little type of gun dog. Any ideas what I should try? I guess this is kind of similar to the lab scene on a stone I created. I used some potting soil rubbed into the clay and textures with scrunched up foil to create a mud look.