This Blog is Moving!

I'm moving my blog to whohungthemoon.com I hope you'll continue to follow, we haven't finished the moon yet!

Thanks!!

Sculpting the Moon

Okay, I forgot to mention it last time, but I'm sure you're way ahead of me and you thought of it yourself: you need to put eyelids on the other eye! Did you do that? If not go ahead and to that, same way as below. Oh, but do look at the eye on the other side so that they relate to each other. They don't have to match exactly (ours don't), but they do have to relate. Our moon probably won't be viewed straight on very much. In fact he'll look a bit funny from that angle, but we still want his eyes to relate. Trust me.

Now that that's done, we'll move on to the chin. Pinch off a chin-sized hunk of clay, and begin to shape it with your fingers. Again, it's sort of a C shape. Put it against your moon to see how it's going to fit and adjust accordingly. When you are happy (or close enough to happy) with it, wet the chin area with your finger and press the chin in place. Smooth the outer edges with your fingers. You'll probably be fine using just your fingers for this step; no details to worry about.

The Moon Continues

It's been awhile, but part of the fun of working with Creative Paperclay is that we can come back to it at any time (even years later!) and just pick it up and go on, so lets do it!

It's time for eyelids, upper and lower. We want a wide, C shape, not very thick, for the upper lid. Shape the clay, try it out to see how it fits. You can always cut some away with your X-Acto knife if you have too much. When you're happy with the shape wet the area above the eye with your finger and press the eyelid onto the moon. Use your fingers and tools to smooth the clay and shape it on the eyeball. You want a clean edge on the eye, check you own eyes in a mirror for reference.

Take a smaller piece of clay for the lower lid. The lower lid has a bit of a curve, but it's generally not as pronounced as the upper lid. Keep the clay thin, if it's too thick your moon will have puffy eyes. Again, once you have the clay in a shape you like, wet the area on the moon with your finger, place the clay and smooth it with your tools and fingers. Smooth out the edges of the clay as much as possible so you don't have to fight them later.

The moon has eyelids!