How to Create a Unique Wall Piece

 

Hello everyone! My name is Cinnamon Willis and I am going to show you how I created this cute wall piece!

Supplies:

Gloves
Drill with small bits
Copper acrylic paint
Drop cloth or someplace to work on that can support a mess
Creative Paperclay®
Water
Sanding paper

Roll and flatten out your clay. I used a lid to a container to flatten and then cut a disc out like you would with a cookie cutter.

When you get the shape just right, take your disc and set it aside to dry. Monitor the drying to make sure that the disc doesn't warp upwards. You might want to set a book on top of the clay with a piece of parchment paper in between.

When the piece dries, take your drill and drill the a hole in the top of the disk.

The nice thing about paperclay is that you can draw directly on it like paper. Draw the design that you would like to have on your piece. 

Just like with paper, you can erase your drawings with a eraser. You can go back and forth with your design until you are happy with it.

Paint your piece with any type of acrylic paints that you would like to use. I choose to put gold on the side of my piece.

Use a protective coating to seal your piece. This is how it turned out.

Thank you all once again for stopping by, and I hope that you enjoyed today's tutorial! You can find Creative Paperclay® at the following retailers Creative Paperclay® Online Store, Michael's, Amazon, Joann's.

See more of my work at Melandolly.com, catch updates on 

my Instagram page and here is a link to my shop!

How to Create a Stick Puppet

Happy Friday everyone, Cinnamon here and I am going to show you all how I created this puppet. I was inspired by my Wayang Golek puppets in my collection which are wooden puppets traditionally performed with in West Java, Indonesia. 

(Wayang Golek puppets and Colonial statues on far right)

Supplies:

Creative Paperclay

5 Skewers

Masking tape

Cork or any type of filler

Acrylic paint

Wire

Exacto Knife

Needle nose pliers

Aleene's Tacky Glue

Lambswool (optional)

Sealer

First you will need to try to figure out what size you would like for your puppet to be. This will help you determine how long you will need for the sticks to be. I wanted to keep my puppet on the smaller side co I cut the sticks in half that I would use for the hands and left the other on for the body at full size

I took a cork that I had laying around and cut it down to size with an exacto knife. I used this for the basic shape for the head, put it on top of the long skewer and taped it in place with masking tape.

Once the cork is secure in place, begin to smooth clay around it for the head. Keep building up the head and the face. When you reach your level of satisfaction, set the piece aside to dry.

Start building the hands. You will need to take smaller pieces of the skewers and make sure they are long enough for the forearm of your piece. When you get the size of the skewers right, begin to chisel a bit into both skewers so that you could attach them to the body with a string later. I went an inch down from the back of the stick with my shaving.

Start making the hands on the other end of the stick. Don’t get too detailed since you will need a sort of mitt to run some string through for the sticks. Make sure you shape out a hole in the center before the clay dries for the string!

Here I am picking the head back up to work on some of the features of the doll. I let the doll head sit for a little bit so that it could begin to dry. It makes it easier to work up your piece in layers so that you can sculpt without disturbing the bottom layer.

Let the head and the hands sit out to fully dry. After the head dries, you can begin to build out the shoulders with your wire. It can be any gauge but I like to use a thinner wire so that I can manipulate it easier. Use your pliers to take some of the stress off of your hands. Leave a hoop on each shoulder so that you can attach the arms later

Once you have the shape of the shoulders, cover them with masking tape to bulk them out a bit and cover with paperclay. You can build a torso if you would like, I kept it simple and just added a little bit of clay under the shoulders.

Set the piece aside and allow it to dry. Take the main skewers that you will be using to control the arms and carve out a little notch as you did with the skewer for the forearms.

Sand your pieces down to get them to the level of smoothness that you'd like.

Get your thread and tie it really tight around the notches that you made and make a knot to attach the arms to the torso. Glue the string onto the skewer with e6000 glue.

Take a piece of thread and thread it through the hole in the hand and the bead on the other side of it. Take the thread and pull it back through the hole on the hand. The bead will keep the tread from going through the other side of the hand. Repeat the process on the other side of the hand.

Paint your pieces once they are dry. Put a sealant onto your piece.

Now take your hands and attach them to the sticks that you carved a notch out in.

Take a square of fabric and size it up with the puppet to see how much you want to use for the outfit. You can either make sleeves and a fitted top with a skirt or you could take the easy way out and make a cloak like I did. 

Optional, but this is a good time to add some hair onto your piece. I use Aleene's Tacky glue to attach the hair.

Thank you all once again for stopping by, and I hope that you enjoyed today's tutorial! You can find Creative Paperclay® at the following retailers Creative Paperclay® Online Store, Michael's, Amazon, Joann's.

See more of my work at Melandolly.com, catch updates on 

my Instagram page and here is a link to my shop!

 

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How to Create a Cameo Framed Art Piece

Hello and happy Friday everyone, Cinnamon here and I am going to show you how I created this cameo framed art piece.  Follow the steps below to see how this was done.

Supplies:

• Creative Paperclay®
• Small hand roller or something to flatten out clay
• Decorative frame
• Exacto knife 
• Sand paper
• e6000 glue
• Acrylic Black and gold paint
• Sealer, Varnish
• Sheet of black felt

 I have a few of these pretty frames that I brought from my local 5 Below discount store. It has a very vintage and distinguished look so I wanted to create a cameo piece and place it in the middle. I have always admired vintage cameo portraits and wanted to try to recreate one of my own.

***This is not a necessary step****, but I chose to create my own silhouette from an image I found online in Adobe Illustrator. You can just grab a silhouette from a quick Google search online or draw one by hand. 

I took the silhouette and made it to the size of the opening of the frame and cut it out. Again, you can just do this by hand and not get on the computer to do this step.

Once I cut out the silhouette, I used it as a guide to make sure that I create my piece to size.

I have a flat tool that I use to shape clay which allows me to cut pieces of the clay as needed to create fine details. You can use a pin or anything that allows you to shape those little details while the clay is still pliable. It's important to get you basic shape down at this point so that you don't have to do as much sanding and cutting into the clay later.

Keep building up the piece and focus on getting the profile just right. 

I wanted to add a braid to the hair of the piece. My clay was a bit dried out so it broke in a few places when I tried to rolled out thin pieces of it. If you use fresh paperclay, you won't run into this problem. If you do, it can easily be corrected by brushing a bit of water onto the pieces and blend them together.

I took the braid and pressed it into the piece with a wet brush to help it stick in place. I brushed the pieces on the braid with the damp brush to join some of the pieces that were splitting from each other. Set the piece aside and allow it to dry.

Once the piece dried, I did a light sanding to clean up the details and smooth it out.

Be sure to try the piece out in the opening of the frame to see if you are happy with the size. Adjust as necessary.

After I was done with sanding, I moved on to painting the piece with a black undercoat of acrylic paint.

After applying the undercoat, I painted gold acrylic paint onto the piece using the dry brush technique. The braid was fully painted in gold so that it could be the focal point. Set aside to dry and then seal it with varnish.

Take your felt sheet and cut it down to the size of the opening of the frame. After you cut it down to size, glue it onto the back of the frame with the the e6000 glue.

If your piece is dry, glue it onto the frame with the e6000 glue as well.

And this is how it turned out!

Thank you all once again for stopping by, and I hope that you enjoyed 

today's tutorial! You can find Creative Paperclay® at the following 

retailers Creative Paperclay® Online Store, Michael's, Amazon, Joann's.

See more of my work at Melandolly.com, catch updates on 

my Instagram page and here is a link to my shop!

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