It was my birthday this Monday, and I got a new paint set that I wanted to try out.
So I sculpted this dinosaur head, and started painting.



The finish of the colour is satin matt, and I found out that I liked it more than the completely matt finish that my previous Flashe colours left me with.



Compare the lustre of the colour with the Flashe painted cat below (not the eyes though, they got some glossy varnish on them):



Which do you prefer?

Yesterday I brought home my candle holder creatures that I made in an open pottery class I go to. I repeatedly forgot to bring a candle to the class while creating them, so I ended up making the size of the hole based on a mix of memory and guess. That was pretty doomed to fail, but with a bit of carving the candles actually fits! Sometimes you are lucky.

My niece is not crazy putting burning candles on the head of herself (it is a self portrait), as she is dressed for Lucia. It is a traditional celebration the 13th of December in Sweden, you can learn more about it here below.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgxZS4mWSrw&w=560&h=315]

I trying out making figurines based on children's drawings. I am trying to stay as true to the original as possible, which is quite a challenge! Look at those legs for example, I was struggling a lot with them, and am not particularly happy with the outcome.
Anyway, this is the picture that Vicente drew:



I started out making a rough body based on the drawing in papier-mâché:



When the papier-mâché had dried I was using paper clay to make the figurine smoother and more detailed. Then I painted it (sorry, forgot to take a picture of this stage).
As the last step I gave the poor thing "cement shoes":



This is how it turned out: