Paperclip Raccoon
Raid The Craft Store For . . .
- Acrylic paint and bushes
- Varnish/resin**
- Sculpting tools - my two favourite sculpting tools to use are: a skewer and a sewing pin.
- Paperclips
*Obviously any polymer clay can be sculpted but I prefer to use Super Sculpey (beige) It's lovely and soft and creamy, and I find it isn't as brittle as the smaller squares you can buy. It's not coloured but I prefer to paint polymer clay rather than use/blend different colours.
** A clear coating of varnish will always improve the look of your sculpt. I use a two part resin varnish. Some varnish won't work on polymer clay. The oil in the clay causes the varnish to split and dry in patches. This is another reason I paint my clay.
Crafting . . .
Make a head roughly the shape of a triangle/trapezium with blunted corners. Add a small piece wire into the body and add the head. Smooth out any join lines.
Then create two smaller eye sockets.
Make an "O" shaped mouth.
The feet are two discs that have been shaped with a skewer.
Bake the clay.
Add a line of white around the eyes.