Gomez is getting his final bake

Here he is with his hair, his eyebrows and his mustache. All painted and almost ready to get dressed. He's shiny because after I paint, I put on a layer of liquid clay. This stops the paint from chipping and it adds a nice toothy feel to the clay as well as filling in any gaps making it more secure.

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WIP Kawai Shimai Tinkerbell 8

Here are some step by step pictures of the base I'm making for Tinkerbell. I'm using Studio by Sculpey clay, and Bake & Bond. And the Bake & Bond is wonderful! It's thick enough and sticky enough that it actually holds the clay where I want it until it's baked. So I didn't have to sqwersh up my little decorations.

Thanks for taking a peek. Next I must dress little Tink. She loves the new base. She said she might like a flower on the top to sit on and a nice mushroom for her feet. I'll look into that for her :o)

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WIP Kawai Shimai Tinkerbell 6

Tink is getting fresh skin. Since she's getting a nice new dress I thought it best to do it all. :O) Look how skinny she is!! This is a good time to give her a butt. And some more of the boobicles too.

Here I'm preparing material for Tink's new dress. This is green crepe paper. I put tls on it and sprinkled glitter on it. I think this will be prettier than the previous dress.

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WIP Kawai Shimai Tinkerbell 5

Here it's hard to tell what I'm doing, but I thought I'd explain because it might help some people. There are different kinds of liquid clay. Kato Liquid Polyclay , Translucent Liquid Sculpey, Fimo Gel, Studio by Sculpey Bake-n-Bond. And each one has a different result when used.

Here I'm using two different kinds of liquid polymer clay. Over her skin, I'm using translucent liqud sculpey (TLS) and over her shoes I'm using Fimo Gel. Fimo Gel has a slight shiny appearance when baked, and it's slightly sticky like rubber is. I'm going to apply a pretty green mica powder to her shoes after they're baked, and Fimo Gel leaves just the right amount of tackiness for this. Over her skin, I'm using TLS because it has a very matte appearance when cured. I like this look for the skin. They both at the same temperature for the same amount of time so this isn't an issue, although painting them to butt up against each other was a challenge...LOL We'll see if I succeeded in about 16 more minutes. :o)

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