Rabbit and Mouse Kiss 1/12 - Polymer Clay Mini Sculpture

This mini sculpture is my best-loved piece of the whole collection that I'll show at the dollhouse fair next week-end :) 

It's about a little Rabbit and his Mouse friend... they are playing and the little Mouse gives a little kiss to his best friend Bunny :)

They and me - together all the Celidonia's Rabbit, Mice, Fairies, Babies and little Girls - both in polymer clay and in the flesh, will waiting for you a Miniaturitalia, in Milan, next week-end! :)

Raspberries Mouse 1/12 - Polymer Clay Mini Sculpture

This little Mouse loves Raspberries and his muzzle became red because the juice! ^^ 

He will come at Miniaturitalia with us, I hope all the little mice will not quarrel about the food, or birds and mouse about the soup tureen! :D

Thank goodness, each of them has his little box! :D

Mallow Mouse in 1/12 Scale - Polymer Clat Mini Sculpture

This little Mouse needs extra sweets! ^^ The little Robin made his Nest in an old broken mini polymer clay soup tureen, he would rather the contents! I can't blame him! Can you do? ^^ 

Do you need sweets too? Come with us to Miniaturitalia! You will find ther so much mini beauty and sweetness from miniature, ooak and dollhouse artists from all the world! ^^

My little fairies, rabbits, mice, birds and babies will wait for you there! :D

Mouse on Cake 1/12 - Polymer Clay Mini Sculpture

 The first Mouse of the year has his blog post! And he has a dilemma: to eat or not to eat the candied cherry? :D

I think he'll eat, because he needs energy for the fair! We'll be at Miniaturitalia next week-end :) 

Sculpting and painting this little mouse was hard work for my eyes ^^ I used a stereoscopic microscope, and painted him wit the paintbrush with one only bristle that I used for the little birds :)
While the mouse think about the cherry, we are making preparations for the leaving. We hope to meet you at the Miniature Fair next saturday and sunday! :D

Robin on Nest 1/12 Scale - Polymer Clay Mini Sculpture

This little one is the latest bird that will came with me at Miniaturitalia. It's a little Robin that looks after his Nest ^^ 

The next post will be about my Mice. Do you like know them personally? We'll waiting for you next week-end in Milan, for Miniaturitalia, the Italian Dollhouse, Miniature and ooak Fair! ;) 

Blue Tit in 1/12 Scale - Polymer Clay Mini Sculpture

The little Blue Tit loves Pomegranate too :D 

Here is another little bird ready to fly for Miniaturitalia. Some little snowflakes fell today in Rome, so he'll need extra-feed to fly as far as Milan, I think ^^

The Blue Tit has wonderful colors: blue wings, yellow body, green back and a lovely black and white eye mask. He seems a fairytale character! It was hard reproducing this color, because they are so lively that in a sculpture it was the risk they become false. Maybe this is just the magic of the Blue Tit: bringing in the sky the colors of the wild flowers and fields.

I used the same only-one-bristle brush that I used for the little Long-Tailed Tit to paint it, and the acrylic colors for miniatures too. In this case painting was more hard than sculpting, I need to study volume and space to put the color with great attention, but I think in the end it was enough like the little one that came to visit me some time ago ^^
Who knows, will he recognize himself seeing this little miniature? ^^

Long-Tailed Tit in 1/12 Scale - Polymer Clay Mini SculptureMiniature

Although all new miniatures I'll exhibit at the fair are in the video I uploaded on my YouTube last Monday and shared in my last post, I decided to dedicate a post and some pics for each of them :)

Here is the first, the long Tailed Tit eating a pomegranate :)

The Long-Tailed Tit is a very tiny bird, and it's was hard sculpting and painting him. I painted it using a brush with just one only bristle ^^
I used acrylic colors specific for miniatures, to paint the bird, and soft pastels to paint the pomegranate :)

Long Tailed Tit and Blue Tit are friends, and the Blue Tit will be on my next post :)

Polymer Clay Miniature Video - Rabbits, Mice and Other Friends :)

This video is not a tutorial, but just a gallery of the mini sculptures I'll exhibit at Miniaturitalia, the Italian Dollhouse Fair :) 

Rabbits, Robins, Fairies and me are so busy with preparations for the fair! I hope you'll enjoy the video. There are so many new polymer clay tutorials projects in my head, and so short time in my life these days! I hope I'll record some of them as soon as I'll return from the fair :) 

I hope my Rabbits and little creature will keep company with you, and will make you happy :) 

Robin Redbreast on a Slice of Cake in 1/12 Scale

This little Robin likes sweets and he alighted on a big slice of chocolate cake, with whipped cream and cherry jam :D 

My 1/12 scale mini robins are a little different now. Their little legs are fully sculpted, little feet too, and they have a more realistic coloring. I don't use soft pastel for their coloring now - I used them only for cake - but I use special acrylics color for model-making. It needs some additional hours of work, but I think it's a good result :) 

I painted the little blue tint between the red and the brown with a paintbrush that has only one bristle. I'm working on a Long-tailed tit too, and I hope I'll find the colors to paint a little blue tit ^^ 

Lifelike ooak Doll Eyes - Polymer Clay Tutorial

As I promised, here is the video tutorial to create lifelike eyes, for ooak doll, fairies and other figures. It was up on my YouTube last Monday, but I can update the blog only now. I'm very busy  sculpting miniatures for Miniaturitalia, the dollhouse and Miniature Fair in Milan, Italy.

I used the Millefiori cane method to create the iris eye. There are other methods too, you can also paint it (using Genesis color or acrylic color), but it is my best-loved method :) 

To create the crystalline lens I used Lisa Pavelka Magic-Glos. It needs UV Lamp, but there are other 3d resins that don't need it, if you do not have. Or you can use liquid polymer clay too :) 

So, here is the video tutorial and... I must go to finish to sculpt the last robin :)

Workshop Miniaturitalia 2015

In February in Milan will be the Dollhouse and Miniature Fair, Miniaturitalia. I'll give two workshops there: how to sculpt a ooak baby head in polymer clay and how to sculpt arms and hands :)

In the workshop page in the fair website you'll find all the info :) I hope I'll see you in Milan next February!

A Little Fairy Goes to Robin's Aid

The mini sculpture that I worked these days is finished at last! :) The Micro Fairy had her wings and the little Robin Redbreast had his berry. Together, are on a snow-covered Hawthorn branch. 

The little Robin is hungry and the little Fairy goes to him's aid, giving him a berry she kept for him. They was playfellow in Summer!

Everyone could be a Birds' Fairy Friend, in Winter, feeding and taking care of them.
A Sparrow family and a Redtail always come on my balcony in Winter. Sometimes a wonderful Blue Tit comes too, and even a Kestrel came one day! They often inspired my sculptures and this work was inspired by them, too :)