Clay dragon- blog entry

What you need:

1. Clay (colors of your choice)

2. wires/pipe cleaners (cut of all the hair on the pipe cleaners before you stick them in)

3. clay tools or different sizes

4. and something to go under neither your work space so things don't get messy

The clay dragon took a lot of clay for such a small thing. but if you have enough you can do it. I will say that in the end I was proud of it but you need to put a wire in the wings and head/neck, because when I baked, about half way through, I noticed..... It broke so yeah i had to put a wire in it. But over all, I think it was really fun and something a beginner to clay could do.

Time: minimum: 40 mins maximum: 3 hours

For the head you do a tear drop shape, and for the limbs roll tiny worms out of the clay. Use the blue clay to make the wing inner by cutting them to look how you want, once that is done you can make legs and add in the details. I used the left over blue clay to make scales. to do the scales you roll little tiny balls and flatten them out. Then you put them on top of each other in layers (only do about 3 at the most for layering) And you can add horns to. Then make teeth with white clay and. You can shape them how ever you'd like. Then you can make the eyes by forming a dent and putting a black shape (any you want) on it as the pupil. Then you can take some extra black clay and show emotion in the face by make your dragons eyebrows and/or cheeks forming over the eyes.