Marcia,

I meant to ask you in class, I'm so glad there's this forum so I can ask you now  ;), although it may be a dumb question , do you sand down the clay after you bake it?

I know you dress them and then bake but what about the face or if there's any exposed clay?  

I imagine one would have to be extremely careful around the face as you wouldn't want to lose any of the detail.  

Marsha

Marsha...yes you can sand it down with some lightweight sandpaper however I wouldnt sand the face. Sometimes I will use an exacto knife and you can scrape the clay too if there are some rough spots but be careful to just lightly scrape the surface. The wonderful thing about this clay is if you take away too much you can always add on and rebake, polyform clay can be rebaked over and over, just dont exceed the baking temps on the package. Marsh  

OH my and NO dumb questions on here!!!!  M  

  Great!  

Thanks, Marcia.  I'm a bit heavy handed so I'm sure I'll become quite good at "adding" clay  

Now that I know how to sculpt ears I better learn how to do noses!!

Marsha  

Marsha check out this link and see if it brings up pictures of hands, its an online book you can download. Hope it comes up for you, if not let me know and Ill show you how to get to that page. The book has alot of great how tos and pictures to help you get your anatomy right.

http://www.fineart.sk/index.php?s=120&cat=14

Awesome!!

I bookmarked it!!  Going to print out some pages!

Big thank you!!

Marsha  

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://z.about.com/d/drawsketch/1/0/-/B/nose-anatomy.jpg&imgrefurl=http://drawsketch.about.com/od/figuredrawing/ss/drawingnoses.htm&h=325&w=400&sz=29&tbnid=Z8HrQxv4HymLUM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhow%2Bto%2Bdraw%2Ba%2Bnose&start=3&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=3

Hey and here is a site to show ya some noses!!    

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:NFCQEu2HHMNWBM:http://www.fantasycostume.net/fantasy/images/Accessories/witchnosechin.jpg
I found this great witches nose too...dont you love this, what did we ever do without the internet!!

Love those warts!!

I'd be at a total loss without the internet!!!  

Marsha