a rift

asabaijan:

This little guy is the first one in a series I’d like to call Bio-spheres (I was very happy when I came up with that name and found it very clever :P) I’d like each one of them to contain an animal I love (or just love to look at) or alittle environment with different animals. At the moment I decided to exclude animals with either fur or feathers for I don’t quite know how to pull that off in that scale, but I might include them once I found a good technique.

So. On to the Octopus. I made him mostly from polymer clay (this time it was a brand called pardo of which I got a bunch of jewel colours from a former job. It was a really, really lovely shade at one point, but I mostly painted over it so you can’t really see it anymore) but painted him in a lot of layers to achieve the mottled “skin”. I started off with another Octopus, which, surprise, surprise, turned out a bit too big for the sphere I envisioned, which turned out to be awesome, though, cause I was able to play around with painting techniques, and especially with the suckers. I originally planned to make them in polymer clay too, but then decided that I don’t want to get crazy yet. So I ended up painting first a little dot of paint and then taking paint away with a very fine dotting tool. To complete the piece I added a little bit of sand and small rocks to the base. The Pendant measures a bit more then 30 mm, the dome itself measures 25. The pictures truly don’t do this piece justice.

(via meglyman)