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.

dragon #51 Joy 1

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.

dragon #51 Joy 2

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.

dragon #51 Joy 3

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.

dragon #51 Joy 4

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.

dragon #51 Joy 5

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.

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