Using Creative PaperClay® as a painting Medium by LuLu Lancaster

Hello There this is LuLu lancaster and I have a tip to use Creative PaperClay® as a painting medium.

I have bought the gels and dimensional paint for acrylics and thought what if I use my slurry of clay to create dimension without actually sculpting. 

Here are the results. :)

Use a regular gesso primed canvas and a cup of Creative PaperClay® that you have turned into a slurry. 

Create your slurry by adding water to a bit of clay until it becomes the consistency of thick pudding. Keep adding clay and water until you get the right thickness that will work for you.

I like to use high flow acrylics for this type of painting. I start by adding the clay slurry to the canvas.

with my paint brush and drip the high flow acrylic onto the slurry. 

I can then swish around my paint brush and get high areas of paint and clay. 

I keep adding more slurry and paint and swish it around with my paintbrush. 

The more slurry you add the more dimension your canvas will have.

I created trees with the slurry using this same method mod adding slurry and then dropping the acrylic onto the canvas swishing with my brush.

Here I took a wire and dragged it through the trees to expose the colors underneath.

Now it was time for soothing silly! I added a slurry of a teddy bear.

add paint 

and swish it around :)

Here he has a Creative PaperClay® unicorn horn at my granddaughters request :) 

Thank you of following along and i hope you have enjoyed this tip for using Creative PaperClay® as a paint medium :)

LuLu

http://LuLusApple.com

Skeleton Doll Tutorial

Halloween comes in just a few weeks and I have found myself very much in the zone for creating all things ghoul and ghostly. I have decided to give a tutorial on how to make a skeleton doll by utilizing a simple technique for making a skeleton head combined with my technique for making a doll body out of Creative Paperclay. Hope this gets you in the mood for trick or treating as much as it has for me!!!


What You'll Need
Creative Paperclay
Styrofoam ball - 2" or 3" cut in half
Cup of warm water for sculpting
Sharp pottery tool or toothpicks
6" of 12 gauge garden or jewelry wire
12" of 24 gauge jewelry wire
Acrylic paint
Fabric, lace, ribbon, buttons, etc.
Thread and needle or strong craft glue




What To Do
1.  Take your styrofoam ball cut in half, mold it a bit into an egg shape, and cover with paperclay. Use water to dampen, smooth, and blend the clay into the ball.

2.  Take two fingers or your thumbs and press eye sockets into the clay. Press up a bit to create little eyebrow ridges.

3.  Take your sharp tool or toothpicks and create little nostril holes in the shape of triangles or teardrops.

4.  Take a small bit of paperclay shaped in a symmetrical leaf shape, dampen with a tiny bit of water, and place where the mouth will be. 

5. Take your sharp tool and carve a mouth. I prefer lips and a line that divides the jaw and top of the head. Feel free to carve in teeth, a smile, a frown, a scared expression....whatever you prefer! I also like to add little details here, like little carvings above the eyebrow ridges, stitch lines over jaw line, heart shapes on the cheeks. You have creative control!!!

 6.  Take your 12 gauge wire and cut a 5" length. Insert this wire into your skeleton's head, a little off-center toward the back of the head. This will be your doll's neck and armature for its torso and waist pieces.

7.  Roll out a small snake of paperclay and insert it over the wire. Skeletons have bony necks, so make this part really skinny. Use a toothpick or your sharp tool to make the individual neck bones. 

8. Sculpt a two triangles out of the paperclay for the neck, top half of torso, and bottom half of torso. 

9.  Add two triangles with the tips touching each other to the wire.

10.  Dampen fingers and break off small pieces of paperclay to fill in gaps between the cylinder and two triangles. Smooth the clay as you go using slip which simply means that you take a small amount of paperclay, dampen it in your cup of water, and smoothing it between the two body pieces.  

11.  The pictures that were meant for the rest of this skeleton doll tutorial were lost due to a technical glitch. Sooo....To build the rest of this doll, visit one of my previous doll tutorials following steps #9-20. http://creativepaperclay.blogspot.com/2011/08/paperclay-kitty-doll-tutorial.html  You can also see how this doll body comes together by reviewing this tutorial!!! Please note that the neck style on the skeleton doll is completely different from the Kitty Doll. The skeleton doll neck does not need to be blended into the torso!!!

12.  Now that doll is assembled, go ahead and paint it. Allow paint to dry, seal with varnish and allow to dry again. 

13. And once the doll's paint is dried and sealed...EMBELLISH LIKE CRAZY!!! Visit another previous tutorial of mine to learn an easy technique for dressing your doll!!! http://creativepaperclay.blogspot.com/2011/08/glue-and-wrap-dressing-technique-for.html

My doll is far from finished, but this is what she looks like so far! 

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial! I'll be posting better pictures of my completed doll...hopefully this weekend. Please visit http://marissartdolls.blogspot.com/ when you have a chance! Until next time, happy creating!!!

Glue and Wrap Dressing Technique for Paperclay Dolls

This is a continuation of my last tutorial in which I gave instructions on how to make a Paperclay doll. This tutorial I will give simple instructions for dressing your doll without sewing!

So, last time I wrote a tutorial, we made this kitty doll:

I've decided that this kitty is a lady. Therefore, she needs a pretty dress.

What You'll Need
Paperclay Doll
(Make your own with this tutorial: http://creativepaperclay.blogspot.com/2011/08/paperclay-kitty-doll-tutorial.html)
Fabric - at least two complementary prints, colors, and/or shades
6" of Lace or Wide Ribbon
12" of Thin Ribbon
Aleene's Tacky Glue
Broken jewelry, glass beads, buttons, or anything else you may want to embellish with

What To Do
1. Decide which fabric will be your doll's skirt. Cut a 4 inch X 4 inch piece and fold in half. Cut a half moon shape being careful not to cut through the fold completely.

2. Place your doll in the middle of this fabric. Trim and cut down to size if necessary.

3. Play around with the fabric to determine how it will fall on the doll. Once you have a good idea of how you want the skirt to look, place a small drop of glue on the belly of your doll and wrap one side of the fabric across. Make sure the fabric is secured with the glue. Wrap the opposite side securing with another drop of glue.

4. Take your other fabric and repeat step 1. However, make this piece a smaller half-moon, leaf shape, or wide triangle. Whatever suits your fancy.

5. Again, play around with the fabric to see how it will fall. Make sure you place the fabric under the dolls little arms. When you are happy with your fabric placement, place a drop of glue on the doll's chest, wrap the fabric, place a drop of glue on the doll's back, wrap again. You may need a teeny drop of glue at the end of the fabric to secure it to the doll's body.

6. Now take your lace around the middle and fashion an apron, belt, or sash around your doll's middle using the same glue and wrap technique. You made need to use a bit more glue to adhere the fabrics together. Cut and remove excess as needed. Feel free to glue and wrap as much, or as little, as you please!

7. Take your thin ribbon and tie a bow in the back of your doll.

8. Use the same ribbon to make your doll a hair bow. Take your broken jewelry, beads, etc. to fashion a necklace by gluing the findings directly to your doll. Glue the hair bow to the doll's head. And congratulations! You've just successfully dressed your paperclay doll without sewing a thing!

Easy Daisy Hair Comb - 6 Steps

By Amanda Marks

Many of you remember my Poppy Hair comb from the last project I did.  I really wanted to do a daisy for this project.  Shasta Daisies are my favorite flowers and I really wanted to make a daisy hair comb for a party we are attending at the end of the month.  Since the technique is very different than the poppy hair comb I thought it would be acceptable to share as my second project for the month.

Materials:
1 Hair Comb (mine was recycled)
Paperclay
Rolling Pin (I use a Fondant Roller)
Sculpting Tools (your choice)
Scissors
Paint
Hot glue

 My recycled Hair Combs.

1.  Roll out a 2" snake.  Flatten it with a rolling pin.  Take sculpting tool or scissors and create a rectangle.

2.  Cut fringes down the length of clay with scissors leaving about a 1/4" at the bottom.

3. Take another piece of clay about 1/2" wide.  This will be the center of the flower.

4. Spread water along the edge of the fringe  Wrap the fringe around the ball smoothing the bottom as you go.

5.  Spread flower petals out.  Let dry for 24 hours.

6.  Paint and seal flower.  Hot Glue flower to comb.

Finished - Hope you enjoyed this easy tutorial (my daughter loves the hair comb.)