Elemental Fire Placque

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• Step 1

  I took a plain wooden plaque with a wire hanger attached, and spray painted it black both sides. Once dry, I first began by smoothing sculpy over the entire front surface of the plaque.

• Step 2

  I can't sculpt faces worth crap. So, I cheated and used a mold by Sculpy that I purchased at Michael's Craft Store. I created my face, and used that as the center focus of the plaque.

  **Tip- to keep your clay from sticking to your molds, keep your molds soaking in clean water and when you are ready to use it, place the clay into the mold "smooshing" it into the mold. When finished, gently remove. The water will prevent the clay from sticking.

• Step 3

  I used sculpting tools to create a 3-D image of flames in 3 "waves" coming out from the face.

• Step 4

  With the area surrounding the "waves" of flames, I used a sculpting tool to create flame like squiggles into the remaining clay on the plaque.

• Step 5

  Using a flat surface, so the "roll" will be even, I rolled some sculpy into small tubes to create the base for the letters in the word "fire", placed them on the plaque, gently attached the clay tubes to the main plaque by gently combining the two. I used the sculpting tools to adjust the letters in the shape that I wanted.

• Step 6

  Take a butter knife, and run it around the outside of the plaque, which will remove excess clay around the plaque.

  When finished, bake in an oven preheated to 275 degrees and bake for approximately 15 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.

• Step 7

  For painting, I first painted the entire plaque in a dark blood red color. I then used a variety of brushes to slowly added color, "fanning" some of the paint with the brush so it didn't color the entire around, but just part of the surface. The colors I used, in order, are then red, reddish orange, orange, and then topped with gold.

  I left the letters alone with once I reached a good red color, which I then topped with red glitter glue.

  Allow to dry. When dry, spray a light coat of clear spray paint to seal the paint.

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Death or Plumbing! · 1 project 8th January 2012

Aaah.. i just read you used a face mold :p hehe!
Either way it's beautiful! ^^
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