Wooloowloowloo

Just a small needle felted wool owl I just made for an Etsy-customer.

Basic shaping and feet

The feet and toes are made from iron wire, fully posable so the owl can perch on pretty much
anything.
The claws and beak are made from Green Stuff, sanded and painted later on.
The eyes are glass, pre bought.

The wool I'm using is locally produced, I had to venture deep into the northern wilderness to get it from an old hermity wool lady.
It's a peculiar place, she just sits there in the middle of nowhere preparing copious amounts of wool.
Her house consists of wool, wool, wool, wool, wool, a huge monster of a carding machine and... a disco room.

One could argue that there are easier ways to get wool, but it's really nice wool.

The moss underneath is a tray. I like keeping my smaller craft projects on trays so I can easily switch between active projects and move them back and forth.
I care deeply for the moss tray and only use it for friendly and pleasant things.
The other trays are for angry projects with knives, sticky clays, solvents and chemicals.

Adding details

Aaand finished!

Also, unrelated to the owl:

a sneak peek of something completely different, something secret.

It's not the larch.

New old, dead dragon

Many years ago I made a ceramic dragon skeleton as a project in art school, I've always wanted to do a remake because think some of the parts are crudely sculpted and I can make it a lot better now.

I never really found the time to do so until now, when I got a custom order for another one.

Instead of ceramic, which is brittle and has to be fired, I will make the new one from polyurethane plastic, two-component self curing clay and some real chicken bones.

I wont make all the parts separately as with the ceramic one, instead it will be sculpted in bigger, mouldable sections.

Some of the bigger parts almost ready for moulding.

Although it will be better than the last, I won't have time to make this one as super realistic as I'd like.

I'll just wait for an opportunity for another remake. A bigger, better one.

Apart from the dragon I'm working on two other projects, an award statue for the Nordic championship in Magic - The gathering for Nordsken (local computer-/boardgame festival): A glowing Black Lotus frozen in a block of "ice".

Some petals for the Black Lotus being moulded

The third project is a secret I'm not allowed to publish yet.

Mildly frustrating.