My wife had a friend visit this weekend. That friend brought this clay stuff called Sculpey. It’s basically like the dough we played with as kids, except that it’s clay and it can be baked to produce some interesting stuff. Now, if you click on the Sculpey link, you’ll find all kinds of amazing projects you can do with this stuff. I decided to give this stuff a try because I know that I’m not a good drawer, but when I design my graphics I basically “sculpt” them from shapes in my graphics software.
First, I did some small flat apples. They came out pretty decent. My wife loves apple designs for the kitchen, so I hot glued them to the salt and pepper shakers. She loved ‘em. Of course, she’s my wife, so she may hate them and was just being nice. I’ll probably never know.
Second, and so far last, I made Saphrym. Now, that little guy up at the top right of this web site is not me. But he is the inner me. My inner geek. And I drew him (on a computer) quite a few years ago. Well, I made him. Out of Sculpey. Here’s a picture of him with magnetic tape stuck to the back of him so he could become a refrigerator magnet (Maybe when I get famous, I’ll sign him and sell him for millions of dollars on eBay):
No laughing! It was just my first try! Sheesh!
Now, if you look at his glasses, they do have a lens-like material in them. THAT material will be the topic of a future blog entry. I didn’t buy it for his glasses. I bought it for something else entirely, but it just happened to work for his glasses.
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