How to Make a Steampunk Character

Hello everyone! My name is Cinnamon Willis and I am going to show you how I created this cute steampunk sculpture!

Supplies:

Gloves
Mask
Drill with small bits
Copper acrylic paint
Drop cloth or someplace to work on that can support a mess
Small wood circle
Bronze gears and key
Creative Paperclay®
Water
Sanding paper

First start off with getting your materials in order. Cover your work area with a drop cloth (I have a board that I work on instead), gloves,

Get a small drill bit and drill two holes into your wood disk for the feet of your sculpture. Make sure the bit is the same size as the wire so that it fits in snugly.

Begin to make your armature out of the wire. Check to make sure the wire sits snug in the holes that you drilled.

Continue making the armature to how you would like your figure to look. When you are done with the shape, use masking tape to cover the parts that you want to cover with clay. Begin putting the clay on top of the masking tape. Continue building up the sculpture and set it aside to dry before beginning another layer. 

Here I made little nubby hands and a square head.

Sand down the pieces that you would like to get nice and smooth.

Paint the piece black so that you can cover it with the bronze or gold if you like. The coat of black paint makes the metal paint look more like a piece of metal.

Here is a coating of bronze paint that was put on top of the black. Streak the metallic on top of the black sporadically so that it isn't so uniform.

Start getting your gears and key ready to be placed on the piece. Use e6000 glue to put the pieces on the figure and use a small string of wire to hook the key on with to hang from the figure's hand.

Use a protective coating to seal your figure. This is how he turned out.

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Steampunk Christmas Ornament ACEO Frame

Hello There and Happy December, This is LuLu Lancaster with a simple ACEO Steampunk ornament frame.

I love the small original art cards known as ACEO, but sometimes it can be difficult to display them. 

This little frame is easy to make and is versatile where you can create different looks and even switch out the cards ;)

You will need 

~Creative PaperClay®

~an Artist trading card ACEO or small photo size 3.5"x2.5"

~a plastic sleeve for ACEOs

~tacky glue

~small dish of water

~scrap of lace

~metallic paint or mica pigments and glaze

~misc. metal objects~

old jewelry pieces bits of old chain

~a wipe out tool or smoothing tool.

~4 eye hooks or eye pins

~and ribbon

First you will need to make trace your card and create an opening either inside the tracing for a smaller opening and overall frame,

 or outside the tracing for a larger opening and larger frame size.

 Next you will need to roll out 4 small logs to place on your pattern. This will create the frame itself.

Smoothe the logs into one frame with a small amount water by either using your finger or a smoothing tool such as a wipe out tool. 

create a pattern in the clay for some texture. using an old scrap of lace you can gently imprint the clay by pressing down and rubbing a damp finger across the lace. Gently pull up to release and repeat on each side.

push 4 eye pins or eye screws into each corner of the frame. These are used for the ribbon and to hold your misc. bits and bobs.

Allow your frame to dry overnight. and gather your small pieces of metal or bits and bobs ;)

After your frame has dried you can paint it with metallic paint

attach the plastic sleeve to the back of the frame with a bit of tacky glue.

attach your findings to the bottom two eye pins, and add a length of ribbon ties to the top 2.

Slip your ACEO into the opening ;)

You now have a cute steampunk frame ornament.

Thank you so much for following along :) remember you can use this basic template to create any number of different themed frames for your tiny cards or small photographs.

LuLu