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 :) 

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 :)

Goddess Sekhmet Sculpture - An Unusual Commission

Gosh! What do the Goddess Sekhmet doing among Celidonia's Rabbits, Mice and Fairies? :O 

She is an unusual commission that I worked these days :) 

Goddess Sekhmet is an Egyptian Warrior Goddess and she has the sun disk in her head. An Egyptian myth says that the Sun is inside the Goddess when it's night and it says that you can see the Sun light reflected in her eyes. 

Sekhmet is a solar deities. Even though I didn't it on purpose, my ooak sculpture in polymer clay dedicated to her is born just after the Winter Solstice, when the light is born again. I think it's a good time to be born for a Goddess that has the solar disk as a crown :) 

Birthday Fairy - Polymer Clay Tutorial (Part 2)

The part 2 of the Birthday Fairy video tutorial is up on my YouTube! :) In this part we'll see how to sculpt the limbs. We'll sculpt the arms and hands, the legs and feet. So, the Fairy will have almost a body! ^^  I share the video here, too :) The third part will be up next Monday! :)

Birthday Fairy - Polymer Clay Tutorial (Part 1)

Here I am with a new video tutorial. When I started working on it, I was too much optimistic: I'd like to sculpt from polymer clay a Birthday Fairy, I thought, as the video upload was exaclty for my birthday day ^^

Hi! I'm a Birthday Fairy and I'm made from Polymer Clay, like my cupcake! Would you like celebrating together with me? :) 

But I got carriet away by the project, so it become very very long. Over 200 clips, two shoot days and other two days to editing the first part. It needed to be splitted in three parts, with weekly schedule. In this first we'll see the head sculpting. In the next we'll see how to sculpt the hands, the arms, the feet and the legs. In the third we'll see how to make the cupcake, the dress and the hair :)

Fairy head, arms and legs are sculpted from Super Sculpey Living Doll, in the light color. Eyes are made from Fimo and resin, but I don't explain the doll eyes making in this tutorial. I made myself eyes for my dolls, but they are available online in many dollmaking shop. There are many tutorials that explain how make them, too. Do you like to see a Celidonia Studio tutorial on the topic? Please, write me in the comments. If I have are requests, I'll put it in my tutorials list :)

Here it is the first part. You can see it here in the blog, or in my YouTube channel. Subscribe to don't lose the next! :)

Christmas Rose Jewel - Polymer Clay Tutorial

Hellebore, also known as Winter Rose, Christmas Rose or Lenten Rose, blooms in December, near Winter Solstice. In this new video tutorial we'll sculpt it from polymer clay, to wear it as a Fairy Jewel in the Christmas Night :) 

I used a mix of Cernit White Porcelain and White Fimo Professional to sculpt the petals. To color them, I used mica powder pink, light green and dark green. I sculpted pistils from White Porcelain Cernit and I color them with chalk pastels yellow and light green.

In ancient times, people believe that Hellebore cured madness. I think it's good to sculpt it in these pre Christmas made days! :) 

Fairy Leaf Jewel - Polymer Clay Video Tutorial

A new video tutorial, how to sculpt a Fairy Leaf in polymer clay! It's a Plane Tree Leaf :)
Not all leaves are the same. Someone is so beautiful that receive a Fairy kiss. So, a magic fairy face is born on them. Would you sculpt it with me? :)

 As polymer clay, I used Fimo Soft Gold Metal n. 11 and Fimo Soft Black n. 9. But it's a personal choice, there aren't a clay better than other. Choose your favorite. I colored the leaf with mica powder, but eye shadows are ok too. I made three bakings, the first for the leaf, the second for the face and the last for the metal wire. You can see the video here or on Celidonia Studio YouTube Channel. I hope you'll enjoy! :)

Bat Fairy - Halloween Video Tutorial

Fairy too dresses up for Halloween! This little one wanted a bat-dress. Would you help me to give life to many her little sisters? So all together will go door-to-door saying "Trick or Treat?" :)

Imovie tricks me, because in the final video is a ground noise that it isn't in the original project. But only for a few minutes, in the first part of the video. It was the second time. I'm sorry, but unfortunately this time  I can't making again the full project. I hope it will work well for the next!
To sculpt the Little Fairy, I used Fimo Professional art doll n. 435 - cameo. To sculpt the little dress, the hat and the bat-wings, I used Fimo Soft. But you can use each polymer clay brand. Which is your favourite?

You can see the video tutorial here or on my Celidonia Studio YouTube Channel. It is in HD, like my previous video tutorials, so you can see it full screen. If you like my video tutorials, please, support the channel subscribing, commenting, like and share. Thanks! :)

I'd like to see yours Bat-Fairies! If you publish them, please, write me the link here as a comment. Thanks! :)

Bat Sculptural Jewelry in Polymer Clay

After my Bat in 1/1 Scale with his Fairy Friend, is born a new little one, very, tiny: a sculptural jewel bat in 1/12 scale! :) 

It is sculpted from Fimo and it's coloured with Genesis burnt amber colour. He is a Totem-Bat, and he'll follow his human friend, flying up her shoulder and whispering in her ear magical words! 

It was hard to sculpt each little parts, and I'm sorry that they are not well visible in the photos. Miniature and black, together, are difficult to take! But I hope you can see some of them :) 

Halloween is almost here, so... the little Bat and me hurry to make preparations to give him welcome! 

See you soon! :) 

Autumn Fairy - Polymer Clay Tutorial

My last polymer clay video tutorial: how to sculpt a little Autumn Fairy! :) 

She is a very simple Fairy, because the face is stylized and the body is covered by the leaf, just the little hand is visible. The Ladybug is a simple shape to sculpt, and the leaves are easy to do :)
I usedo Fimo Professional Doll Art to sculpt the face, hand and body, Fimo Soft to sculpt Ladybug, leaves, eyelashes, eyebrows, and Fimo Effect to sculpt the hair.
I hope you 'll enjoy making a lot of Autumn Fairy's Sisters!

You can se the video tutorial here in the blog or on youtube on Celidonia Studio's Channel.

Have a Fairy Autumn! Thanks in advance for subscriptions, sharing and comments! :)

How is a Fairy Born - Cap. 6

Here is the new and the last video for the birth of a baby fairy ooak in polymer clay. Now the little fairy is softly blushed with genesis artist colors and she has hair in viscose, eyelashes, tiny nails, wings in polymer clay and a little dress.

While I was put on the wings at my little newborn fairy, an old butterfly visited my wax plant. I read here that in the language of flowers, hoya (wax plant) means just "sculpture". For an old butterfly, there is a newborn fairy. Maybe butterfly become fairy, in a last metamorphosis. It is sweet to think. 

As always, you can see the video in a more high resolution on Celidonia's Channel on youtube or you can see it directly here in the blog :) 

How is a Fairy Born - Cap. 5

There we are at the penultimate episode of the making of a baby fairy in polymer clay. In this fifth episode we'll see how are born the neck and the ears.

Like for legs sculpting, I used Fimo Liquid to join the neck and ears sculpted from raw Living Doll  to the body, that it is baked. 

As always, you can see the video in a more high resolution going on Celidonia's Channel on youtube or you can see it directly here in the blog :) 

Test - What Celidonia's Creature are you?

Rabbits, Mice, Robins, Baby Fairies, Fairies, Girls, Micro Fairies, Walnut Elf or Fairy Jewels... which of them represent you? We created a funny test, with nine fairy profiles, to celebrate mid-August holiday! :)
You can read the profiles here, but it's only in Italian... I'm so sorry I'm not able to fully translate it in English!

How is a Fairy Born - Cap. 4

Here it is a new video relating to the birth of a Fairy sculpted in polymer clay. In this video we'll see how arms and hands are born from our usual little ball of clay.

Like for legs and feet sculpting, I used Fimo Liquid to join the arms sculpted from raw Super Sculpey Living Doll  to the chest, that it is baked. 

You can see the video in a more high resolution going on Celidonia's Channel on youtube or you can see it directly here in the blog :) 

How is a Fairy Born - cap. 3

Here we are at the third video about the Baby Fairy Birth. In this video we'll see how to sculpt the legs in polymer clay. Rather, we'll see a fairytale about the birth of the fairy legs :)

I used Fimo Liquid to join raw Living Doll to baked Living Doll. But any liquid polymer clay is ok. Or, as an alternative, you can use a small amount of vinyl glue. 

With legs you can dance. So, I leave you with the fairy waltz that plays in the video. You can see the video in a more high resolution going on Celidonia's Channel on youtube or you can see it, smaller, directly here in the blog :) 

How is a Fairy Born - Cap. 2

In this new video we'll see how the fairy chest is born. Modeling the chest with attention is important because it is like the center of a star, from which face and limbs are born. It contains the heart. Sculpting the navel with attention is very important too, it remembers us our come in this world and it is the midpoint of the circle in which Leonardo inscribed his vitruvian man.

As I said in the last post, this Baby Fairy is sculpted from polymer clay Super Sculpey Living Doll.

You can see the video on Celidonia Studio's youtube channel or here on the blog.

At the end I inserted a wire to join head and chest in a polymer clay body, but... does anyone know how to join head and chest in a flesh and blood body? There is anywhere a tutorial? :)

How is a Fairy Born

Here is the Celidonia's second video on youtube! I show the Fairy making off. In this first step we'll see how to create a Fairy face in polymer clay - I used Living Doll by Sculpey (I'm loving this brand).
Since a Fairy Birth is a fairytale, my video is... a fairytale tutorial! :)

Music Credits: Fairytale Waltz" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Traditional Clay vs Polymer Clay

Every material we can mould allows our imaginative figures to become a concrete reality. From sand to marble, going through, clay, polymer clay, papier-maché, until bread paste, every of them give us a possibility to share our interior world's inhabitants with others.

In the collage above, the figures on the right are in polymer clay, one right down, made in Cernit, is about twelve years ago and became Celidonia Fairy, for my first exposition a Canneto dull'Oglio Museum.  In the upper right corner, there is the most recent Maple Fairy, made in Prosculpt.
The two figures on the left are made in traditional clay and they are the work of my last year, in which I attended a school of sculpture to increase my knowledge in traditional clay modeling.

At the bottom is my first work, a study of female nude, above there is my last work, a portrait studio, in which maybe someone will recognize my mom.

Traditional clay and polymer clay are different like Sun and Moon. I wrote about their property and my experience with them in my Italian post. I'm sorry I'm not able to translate the full post in English. 

Celidonia's Fairies have a youtube channel

Finally, we created the Celidonia's youtube channel and I hope I'll post tutorials and fairy videos soon. Little Rabbit, Mice, and Fairies are so trilled, because they was stars for a minute, taking part in the Celidonia's presentation video! :)

Celidonia Fairy Interview

It has been an honour to be interviewed by Movimento Psicoespressivo.
Movimento Psicoespressivo (in english Psychoexpressive Movement) is an association that covers psychology connected with actions, in a particular point of view connected with arts and individual creativity.
You can read my interview here (it is only in Italian, I'm sorry).

Have a Fairy Summer Solstice and a Magic St. John's Day! :)