Jeepers, Creepers, Peepers

While cruising the web the other day and I came across glass and plastic eyeballs and thought I could make them with Creative Paperclay®.  I probably should have practiced doing bigger ones first however these are very inexpensive to create and don't require shipping.

Supplies:

Creative Paperclay®

Amazing Molding Putty

Paint

Liquitex Pouring Medium

Tools for holes

 

I started with two equal amounts of clay and these two things (sockets)  I found in my husband's garage. They made great indents leaving a circle in the middle for the pupil. Thing about what you have around the house that can make these shapes.

When the clay dried, I painted the pupil and iris.

After this dried I added some pouring medium to the indented area. This looks white but will dry clear. When dry it looks like the finished eyeball in the first picture.

Option: You can do a thin first pour and add detail when it is dry. Then do a second pour. This will give you even more depth in the iris.

 

Enjoy another technique for your art arsenal! —Darlene Olivia McElroy

Using Creative PaperClay® as a painting Medium by LuLu Lancaster

Hello There this is LuLu lancaster and I have a tip to use Creative PaperClay® as a painting medium.

I have bought the gels and dimensional paint for acrylics and thought what if I use my slurry of clay to create dimension without actually sculpting. 

Here are the results. :)

Use a regular gesso primed canvas and a cup of Creative PaperClay® that you have turned into a slurry. 

Create your slurry by adding water to a bit of clay until it becomes the consistency of thick pudding. Keep adding clay and water until you get the right thickness that will work for you.

I like to use high flow acrylics for this type of painting. I start by adding the clay slurry to the canvas.

with my paint brush and drip the high flow acrylic onto the slurry. 

I can then swish around my paint brush and get high areas of paint and clay. 

I keep adding more slurry and paint and swish it around with my paintbrush. 

The more slurry you add the more dimension your canvas will have.

I created trees with the slurry using this same method mod adding slurry and then dropping the acrylic onto the canvas swishing with my brush.

Here I took a wire and dragged it through the trees to expose the colors underneath.

Now it was time for soothing silly! I added a slurry of a teddy bear.

add paint 

and swish it around :)

Here he has a Creative PaperClay® unicorn horn at my granddaughters request :) 

Thank you of following along and i hope you have enjoyed this tip for using Creative PaperClay® as a paint medium :)

LuLu

http://LuLusApple.com