55th Post - Playing with Clay

Recently, since my courses are done for the holiday (for the most part) I've found myself with a lot of spare time, and clay, on my hands.

Making things out of clay (characters, maquettes, and the like) is something I've always had an interest in.
I picked up a brick of gray clay, and a box of sculpey from the college supply store ages ago, and only now thought to mix the two together.

The gray brick had the consistency of...well, a brick. It took around 15 minutes just to get the clay kneadable, and it was hell on the hands.

The sculpey was flesh-toned, and I found to be too oily, or at least, to have too much moisture.

 I'm sure there are occasions when this would be preferable, because it made using it very easy, but I just found it to be too soft.

Therefore, I, being the creative genius that I am, decided to  mix the two materials together!

Elementary, my dear Watson.

I'm sure a much smarter person would've done this long ago, but we won't get into that today.

And why did Sherlock call Watson "my dear"?

Anyway, back to the experiment.

 I'm still working on ways to get the clay just right, and to get a proper maquette that will survive the baking process. I've some...crumbly disasters.

I'm semi-planning on making a little clay figure, and painting it up, for my elder brother (in the beer bottle) for Christmas.

If it doesn't work out, it's not the end of the world.

Anyway, just a little update. Doing lots of sketching and doodling, working with the idea of a Conan-esque character. Perhaps sometime I'll upload some scans of those.

That is all, my freaky little darlings.