Hi and welcome back!! For my figurative piece, I decided to use clay instead of paper mache. I started this project by simply deciding on what I want to make and searching up photos for it. In the end, I decided on making a bat to be more specific a greater false vampire bat. I printed out four photos of my bat and got to work the next day. I grab a large piece of clay and round it into a big ball, making my head. I had to stick my finger through the center of my head in order to make it hollow and make sure that it doesn't explode once fired. Next I worked on the ears, which I would say was one of the biggest con of this entire piece. The ears were a con or simply difficult to make because the shape that I had to make them was big and they ended up really heavy. Meaning that when I added the ears to the head and tried to work on another section of the piece, the ear would crack and fall off the piece. I had to add the ear to the head at least 3 time before Sudkamp had the idea of cutting the ears off and adding them in the end after I was done with something else done. If I could have done it differently, I would have added the ears at the very end, making the process so much less stressful. Next thing, I did is work on the top and bottom jaw. It took me a long time to get the jaws just right but I did in the end, with a longer top piece and short bottom piece. Once I added them, I also noticed a lot of cracking from the bottom jaw. This part of the jaw was a con from the piece because I had to keep smoothing it out. I probably should have added at the end with the ears, it might have made things easier. The next part that I worked on was the eyes, which was really easy. I think that I did a pretty good job on the eyes themselves. I made a ball out of clay then cut it in half and added details with cap of a pen. This pen helped me create the lids beneath and top of the actual eye as well as the iris of the eye. The only thing that I had to do was smooth out the lids so it looked a little more separated from the eyes. I think that I did really good job on the eyes. Next, I worked on the fur of my bat. I simply used the back of a paint brush, adding slight lines or fur to the my bat and leaving some part alone that only had skin. I think that the look of the fur was one of the best part of my bat because it just made the bat real. Also, the adding of the teeth really helped with the making of my piece. I didn't add all the parts right away because Sudkamp told me that it might be easier to glue in the back teeth in the end. I simply added four teeth to the front of the jaw, two on the top and two on the bottom. Now, I am done, just waiting for my piece to be fired and then I can paint it and add the back teeth. The best part that I did on the piece were probably the fur and teeth and the hardest were ears and jaw, just because they kept cracking. This was a really fun project and I really love my piece; I can't wait to have my bat against one of my book shelf, scaring off my family and my dog to death. A couple of weeks passed and I added more details to my piece once it was fired. I added acrylic paint instead of glaze or water color. I added black for a base before I got the idea to make a galaxy bat like I'm previously wanted. I mixed up some red and blue to create a purple then dotted some purple to the side as well as bright blue. For the final look, I spilled some white throughout my bat, creating stars to my galaxy theme. My piece was very successful for it ended up looking like a realistic bat with a galaxy theme. I truly love my piece and will treasure it forever in my book shelf. Everything in the end ended up looking exactly how I wanted it to. Thank you for reading and hoped you enjoyed!!
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