Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Dragon Sculpting


Here is an update on what I have been doing. At the "show and sell" in Guntersville, a customer asked about the polymer clay. "Can you make other things out of this?" he said. I , boldly and perhaps foolishly, replied, "Sure, anything that will fit in the oven." He the asked me to make a dragon figurine for his wife, who collects dragons. My carefully weighted answer was " I will try, but I won't be able to get it done before Christmas." Yeah, I was thinking that I didn't know if I could make a DRAGON. I make jewelry, I paint, I sew, but I am not a sculptor -- or am I?
I looked on line and never found the tutorial on making a dragon that I am SURE I saw one day.
SO, I did what I typically do anyway. I took what I found and "gene-ified" it. Here is the dragon for better or worse.

I confess that after I painted the final layers and all the irridescent paints dried, I think it is pretty cool.

Dragon Left 2
Dragon Back

Added information
I am sure many people are curious about the dimensions. Several co-workers saw the picture and asked about dimensions. So I am adding this to the post:
From the tip of his nose to the farthest back part of his tail is approximately 8 inches. The highest point (scale on top of his head) is just under 3.5 inches. Wingspan is approximately 6 inches.and the widest side-to-side measurement is approximately 8 inches.

And for those of you that got stuck on "farthest" - it is the correct superlative. I had to look it up.

5 comments:

LynnS said...

Ooooh!! Your dragon is fantastic! With the iridescent colors, I'm drawn in. What is the length and height?

Happy New Year!

Pat said...

VERY nice...I am not a dragon person, but for anyone who is, that is a great sculpted piece. GREAT work, Gene!

www.welovequilting.com said...

I LOVE IT... So beautiful and you are so talented! Great job..
Chris
www.welovequilting.com
www.welovequilting.com/blog

Barb said...

You do amazing work.

Thanks for entering my giveaway...just dropped by to pay you a visit.

Lindi said...

I collect dragons, but they have to be either beautiful, full of character, or unique. I don't collect just any old dreagon.
Yours would be added to my collection quite happily.
Well done, Mr Non-sculptor!