SFIGURINES- "SLAY GOODKNIGHT, GRACIE"
(BEST VIEWED FROM A GREAT DISTANCE AND OVER YOUR SHOULDER AS YOU FLEE!)
"SSSSSSOOOOOO. I HEAR YOU'RE THE ONE WHO CALLED THEMSELVESSSSS A DRAGONSSSSLAYER, YESSSS?
WELL? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR 'SSSSSLAYER' ??
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Allow me to introduce Gracie. She's a dragon I made out of Fimo (an oven fireable modelling clay) many years ago for my partner, Gail.
Gracie, named after Grace Jones (they share an Attitude, I reckon!), stands about 21 centimetres tall (8 inches) and has a wingspan of about 40 cm (16 inches).
Her wings are made from aluminium sheet embedded and fired in the clay, with additional fins (you can see some on the back of her head in this picture) made from decorative foil leaf-like pieces purchased from the craft store and normally used in charm bracelets. Her wicked eyes, which I like best about the entire sculpture, are red glass, and I've always been chuffed by the way they catch the light across a room.
She's built around a wire armature, some of which has started to show through in spots...she's seen better days and has been in more than one knock-down-dragon-out fight with those pesky slayers.
She's still around though. They ain't!
Her fangs, incidentally, are nothing more than pointed toothpicks which means, come to think of it, that she could eat vampires for breakfast and smile...
I did hardly any sculpted detail work on her hide, I seem to recall it was all about the play of light on her ebony body. But I did drybrush with a grey acrylic wash which has helped bring out scratches and toolmarks.
You'll see more pictures of Gracie...
SFIGURINES- "SLAY GOODKNIGHT, GRACIE"
(BEST VIEWED FROM A GREAT DISTANCE AND OVER YOUR SHOULDER AS YOU FLEE!)
"SSSSSSOOOOOO. I HEAR YOU'RE THE ONE WHO CALLED THEMSELVESSSSS A DRAGONSSSSLAYER, YESSSS?
WELL? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR 'SSSSSLAYER' ??
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Allow me to introduce Gracie. She's a dragon I made out of Fimo (an oven fireable modelling clay) many years ago for my partner, Gail.
Gracie, named after Grace Jones (they share an Attitude, I reckon!), stands about 21 centimetres tall (8 inches) and has a wingspan of about 40 cm (16 inches).
Her wings are made from aluminium sheet embedded and fired in the clay, with additional fins (you can see some on the back of her head in this picture) made from decorative foil leaf-like pieces purchased from the craft store and normally used in charm bracelets. Her wicked eyes, which I like best about the entire sculpture, are red glass, and I've always been chuffed by the way they catch the light across a room.
She's built around a wire armature, some of which has started to show through in spots...she's seen better days and has been in more than one knock-down-dragon-out fight with those pesky slayers.
She's still around though. They ain't!
Her fangs, incidentally, are nothing more than pointed toothpicks which means, come to think of it, that she could eat vampires for breakfast and smile...
I did hardly any sculpted detail work on her hide, I seem to recall it was all about the play of light on her ebony body. But I did drybrush with a grey acrylic wash which has helped bring out scratches and toolmarks.
You'll see more pictures of Gracie...