A Newborn Foal, Part 3: The Pattern
Now that the foal’s body has got its final shape, it is time to create the pattern that it will place on its body. For this little guy I want to do something called a caleidoscope cane, it is called … Read More
Now that the foal’s body has got its final shape, it is time to create the pattern that it will place on its body. For this little guy I want to do something called a caleidoscope cane, it is called … Read More
Today I teached a workshop of a slightly different kind. Most of the participants were used to working with clay, but with the usual pottery clay. They came along with their pottery teacher to find out how it was to … Read More
Today I have been holding a Polymer Clay Workshop here at Mosebacke Horse Sculptures in Östra Harg, Linköping. There were a total of seven participants aged from under ten to over fifty. We started with coffee and watched videos from … Read More
In the previous blog post I showed you the colors I had chosen for the wave. Now it is time to cut them into small pieces. Then I arrange them in the sequence I want them to appear in the … Read More
As you saw in the previous blog post, I made a pencil drawing of the horse from the photo. Then I mixed a brown hue of polymer clay and used the pasta machine for making sheets, approximately 1 mm of … Read More
For the cloisonné horse, I had an idea of creating a colorful, yet very simple pattern on the black body of the horse. I started with FIMOs basic colors and made some Skinner blends. One from white over yellow to … Read More
In my last blog post about the cloisonne horse I came to the conclusion that I had to develop a technique of my own to make something that looks like cloisonné. To make this, I needed a black base for … Read More
The Happy Horse is almost finished, but as I told you, she will have a little passenger on her back. Maybe it is her baby, her foal. This is how he was created. As usual, I started with a skeleton … Read More
Nu är det dags att klä på ”pinnen” med lera. Jag väljer att skapa en melerad lera på samma sätt som till de andra smala hästar som jag gjort nyligen. På bilderna ser du hur jag har lagt ut lerbitar … Read More
Så var ståltrådsskeletten klara för de två hästarna. För att de skulle kunna stå stadigt och balansera tryggt behövde jag också en bit trä som de kunde så stadigt på. Jag är lyckligt lottad genom att vi bor på landet … Read More