Meet Violet, the fourth polymer clay sculpture in my 2017 polymer clay figure challenge. She is based on Mischievous Mike from Maureen Carlson’s book How to Make Clay Characters. Maureen had Mike with his cute little tongue sticking out and to me it just begged to have an ice cream cone in his hand. Obviously I changed Mike from a boy to a cute little redheaded girl. Instead of stripes on the shirt I inset flowers. I also had a lot of fun making her red sneakers based on yet another photo of tennis shoes that I found online.
She has she even has little drips of ice cream on her fingers. Cuz that’s how *I* eat ice cream, don’t know about anyone else. 😀
A while back I had thought of focusing on making polymer clay food as it’s a lot of fun to do, but there are so many folks out there doing such a wonderful job I decided to work on something else. It’s fun however, to have an excuse to make something like this ice cream cone every so often.
I’d like to think that even over the course of just these first four figurines that I’ve gotten a little better at sculpting hands and faces. I’m going to do the next two of the neighborhood kids in Maureen’s book and then I’m looking forward to moving onto more realistically shaped faces.
Also, I really need to make those upper eyelids a bit bigger and avoid the somewhat crazed wide-eyed look. 😀
Watch a video of Violet at YouTube.
She is SO SWEET. Very nicely done!
Thank you! A little manic looking, perhaps, but cute. 🙂
Violet is adorable, you realise so well the details Sandy 🙂
The icecream is so well imitated that I’d like to taste it!
Marie
Such a nice compliment, thank you! I do love doing the miniature food. 🙂