This week I have for you the penultimate sculpture in my year-long weekly polymer clay dragon challenge. Since Joy was made in the midst of Christmas preparations, I decided it would be appropriate to put her on top of a Christmas ornament, from whence she can watch all of the festivities. 🙂
Click on any of the photos for a closer look.
Joy’s body is made from two different brands of translucent clay mixed with gold leaf.
If you’d like to see my other dragon creations so far, I’ve made a Thursday’s Dragon Pinterest board just for them.
I really love the beaded accents for her spines, as well as the webbing bits in between which is more like what you often see on many dragon representations.
The bauble is a ceramic Christmas ornament that I found at the craft store. They only had them in white, so I colored mine with a variety of alcohol inks. I really think the mottled look of the ball very much accents the dragon.
Only one more to go, and I have lots of plans for projects to work on in the new year. But I’ll tell you more about that once Christmas is past.
Don’t forget that next Thursday is Christmas eve and I won’t be putting up a dragon. Instead #52, the final one in this year-long challenge, will go up on New Year’s eve. Be watching for that in two weeks!
Check out this post on Errol, dragon #1, for the details on why I am making a dragon for every week in 2015.
Oh, she’s beautiful! What an amazing collection you’ve made!
It certainly is quite a collection!