Stoned...

[Crawforde]

Nice.
and little chickens might be cool

 

[sorce]

And eggs!

Looked like an outhouse from behind!

Sorce

 

[HorseloverFat]

And eggs!

Looked like an outhouse from behind!

Sorce

My Son, woke up this morning and inquired about the pieces, slow-drying under various buckets/totes ... when I showed him the coop, It was backwards.. he aINSTANTLY said, “Daaaad! An outhouse? Really?”

Then my middle son, after hearing this, “Is that(an outhpuse) a port-a-john?”.

“No, son.”

“Hmm.. then what kind of ‘John’ is it?”

 

[Crawforde]

Ok.
now you need to make a little outhouse with a crescent moon on the door.
if you don’t keep it, it will sell.

 

[HorseloverFat]

 

[HorseloverFat]

Those chickens....

are friggin..

TINY!

can’t make the beaks to pointy, or they’re TOAST.... alot of “gently implied” design here

 

[HorseloverFat]

This one is coming along well!

 

[TinyArt]

What, no rooster?

 

[HorseloverFat]

What, no rooster?

Hahaha!! The definition that would MAKE it a rooster.... at that scale. would be destroyed by a strong gust!

 

[HorseloverFat]

I guess.. a PART of a “crown” could be done. you got me thinking now.

 

[HorseloverFat]

I should’ve said..

“He’s inside the coop”

 

[TinyArt]

ON the coop, more like -- plus, posture will show who's who!

 

[HorseloverFat]

 

[HorseloverFat]

uuuuuhg!!! Chickens this size are always gonna kind of look like “The Far Side”

 

[TinyArt]

Yes, but the only need to SUGGEST chickens within a scene -- yer all good!

 

[HorseloverFat]

I’m thinkin’ also... like an orchard house.. like a little shack at the front of the orchard, with a bar counter where you buy apples?

Or is that just called a farm stand?

 

[HorseloverFat]

What about a grain mill?... with the water wheel?

 

[CodeMonkey]

this was the rock.

It's always the ones with the inverse of the texture I want that are the best.
I did try using some oven bake clay to make stamps from more pointy rocks. It ,didn't really work that well but might be worth a revisit one day.

I'm loving all these sculptures, they're great!
I've started a couple myself (mostly at my kids requests ), but they'll likely take weeks to finish. How do you keep the clay at the moisture level you want over days/weeks? I've been shutting mine in mini buckets with lids. Wondering if there's any tricks I have missed?

 

[Crawforde]

Now your just getting out of control.
but yea. It would be cool.

 

[HorseloverFat]

It's always the ones with the inverse of the texture I want that are the best.
I did try using some oven bake clay to make stamps from more pointy rocks. It ,didn't really work that well but might be worth a revisit one day.

I'm loving all these sculptures, they're great!
I've started a couple myself (mostly at my kids requests ), but they'll likely take weeks to finish. How do you keep the clay at the moisture level you want over days/weeks? I've been shutting mine in mini buckets with lids. Wondering if there's any tricks I have missed?

I work at slower OVERALL pace.
For instance... I can only use that Cement Backer that @sorce suggested for about the first 20 minutes.... after that.. stuff starts drying too fast for my personal pace.. the Cement board IS great for getting you slab to that PERFECT moisture content/plasticity, i use it EVEN shorter with these structures..

Other than that I suggest cutting all pieces when OVER moist.. then closely monitoring them... I have all sorts of buckets/tupperware/totes/bags that I slow dry in/under... once you calculate.. just start cutting pieces... then while you carve/texture the pieces, they will becoming mors plastic, closer to leather-hard... it’s like working the chef gig, and timing it all out to arrive on the plate, HOT.. at the same time!