Anya Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 Ok I just had to share my latest creation that lives on top of my buttercup. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hydroped Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 Every time I see your work I'm so in awe! Your animals are just amazing and this magpie is no exception - he looks So real! I wish I knew how you work so small and get them to look so lifelike, but I suspect it's because you have so much Tallent!! -David :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minis On The Edge Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 I totally agree with you David! Anya, your stuff is awesome! You are truly an artist I am happy to know :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anya Posted August 17, 2006 Author Share Posted August 17, 2006 Thanks David and Tracy. I'd love to teach how to make them but the truth is I don't know where to begin. The clay just sort of takes shape and er that's all I know. I even forget how I make my animals sometimes. I will be teaching how to make Marionette puppets though. I would love to make a blog Tracy but I have no idea how. My brain ceases to function properly sometimes hehe. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minis On The Edge Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 I just shot you an email before I read this. I can help you with a blog. Give me a second..... Okay, here is a link to tell you how to create a Blog: http://www.greenleafdollhouses.com/forum/i...E=01&HID=17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anya Posted August 17, 2006 Author Share Posted August 17, 2006 Thanks so much for that Tracy. I'll look at it first thing tomorrow. Off to bed now (12am here :lol: ) Night night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishMist Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 WOW!!! I had to look at it again when I realized you made the bird. That is just excellent! Good job! Carol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharon Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 I looked at the picture and wondered why you would leave your Buttercup outside? You made the bird, wow, what an amazing talent. I thought it was real. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMadWoman Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 You've done it again, Anya, another amazing creation. That little bird looks so real!! Awesome job!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuttiwebgal Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 once again a masterpeice! I wish I had some of the talent found on this board. I would love to be able to make animals and wicker and food and dolls wallpaper and paint. yall are just too much for a poor unartistic gal to live up to. but I keep plugging along....maybe someday something will take! love the birdy! nutti :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molmrath Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 That is amazing! I love it. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anya Posted August 18, 2006 Author Share Posted August 18, 2006 I looked at the picture and wondered why you would leave your Buttercup outside? You made the bird, wow, what an amazing talent. I thought it was real. The house isn't outside (God forbid :lol: ). I have this old, blue piece of card I prop up behind my houses when I take pics. Effective eh and cheap haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlene Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Anya -- WOW! Would have sworn he was real!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPCullen Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Wowsers! That bird is almost real! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Anya, You ARE the goddess of small creatures! Your work is outstanding. These were made of clay??? How do you get them fuzzy looking?? The animals that I have worked on come out looking like cartoon characters...yours are sooooo real!! You truly are a talented miniaturist! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shakyshaky Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 It is just beautiful. You are truely talented! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missymew Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Anya - How are your wrists? I remember you were needing to rest your hands for sculpting. I so admire your work. -Susanne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anya Posted August 19, 2006 Author Share Posted August 19, 2006 Thanks for asking Missymew. My wrist wasn't the problem (well almost) I had repetative strain injury in my little finger and the pain got so bad I couldn't make a fist or pick up my daughter. Anyway I went to Dr's and he said to rest it but now it is getting better so I am doing a few small animals (think I'd go mad if I couldn't make something) in the evening.:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anya Posted August 19, 2006 Author Share Posted August 19, 2006 Anya, You ARE the goddess of small creatures! Your work is outstanding. These were made of clay??? How do you get them fuzzy looking?? The animals that I have worked on come out looking like cartoon characters...yours are sooooo real!! You truly are a talented miniaturist! All my animals are made from polymer clay. To get them fuzzy looking I blast em for a few seconds with a hair dryer on low setting :lol: but you have to wait for the glue to dry properly so the fine fibres dont fly everywhere. Making mini animals is a painstaking process but I am addicted to see the end results haha. To get your animals to look real is all about observing animals in real life. Look at their posture and the way they move and their shape. They all have their own character just like people and no two animals of the same species look the same regardless of their markings etc. I absolutely adore animals and could happily spend all day making them if I had the time. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Thanks for the info Anya! I will keep trying! I have to say it again, you are a very talented miniaturist! and I look forward to seeing more of your work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heidiiiii Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Anya It is great work of yours! All that popped into my head was the raven. Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary/Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore/ While I nodded nearly napping/suddenly there came a tapping/as of someone gently rapping/ rapping at my chamber door/*Tis some visitor* I muttered *tapping at my chamber door?* Only this, and nothing more I used to know the whole thing in school (had to memorize for grade), but age and brain fog has done the old raven in. I love your work and talent. I only wish I had 1/10th of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anya Posted August 19, 2006 Author Share Posted August 19, 2006 Hi Heidi. Never heard of that poem thanks for sharing it. :lol: Irene practice makes perfect I say so keep at it and experiment. I usually put my work in my gallery if you ever want to see any more creations :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heidiiiii Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Hi Heidi. Never heard of that poem thanks for sharing it. :lol: Edgar Allen Poe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missymew Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 I used to know the whole thing in school (had to memorize for grade), but age and brain fog has done the old raven in. We had to memorize The Raven as well. It's obvious from reading much of Edgar Allen's work that the prozac drugs weren't yet available. He was a real gloomy gus. ;) -Susanne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minis On The Edge Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 I had to remember this too I forgot about that Second Part: Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore - For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore - Nameless here for evermore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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