Looks like a chocolate horse
When I decided I was finished with the actual shape of the horse, it was time to cover it with a thin sheet of brown clay. I think it looked a lot like a chocolate horse 🙂 After I had … Read More
When I decided I was finished with the actual shape of the horse, it was time to cover it with a thin sheet of brown clay. I think it looked a lot like a chocolate horse 🙂 After I had … Read More
Now when the contour and the outlines are in the right places, it is time to make the shape of the body. For that I can use scrap clay, because it will not be visible when I finish by covering … 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 a long time, I had wanted to make some kind of polymer interpretation of one of he very talented photographer Mi Ritzéns wonderful horse photos. One day I found the photo that inspired me. Actually, it was a reining … Read More
This is a jigsaw puzzle. Play it and you will see the Mosebacke Horse that you may be able to follow the creation of during the next days.
I made the horse in a similar was as I made the Cloissonné horse. The skeleton/armature was created in steel wire and aluminum foil, with legs made of bamboo skewers. I covered it all in black clay thereby creating the … Read More
Of course you can operate your artistic business in a traditional commercial way. But there are some things that (at least for me) differ from an ordinary business. In ordinary businesses you have goals, many of them about performance goals. … 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
Finally everything is in the right place. Happy Horse has come to life, created in polymer clay. She has got her body, her skin, her tail, her mane and her beloved passenger – her little foal. Happy Horse put her … Read More
Now Happy Horse and her passenger (her foal) are almost finished. They only need manes, as they are horses. But I did not give them ordinary manes. I gave them small beads. The mare got red beads and the passenger … Read More