Well, that's terrifying.

I finally quit stalling and sat myself down to play with some polymer clay. I haven't done any of the plastic arts at least since moving to Jersey, so ten years minimum. The clay I have is that old plus sat in the moving truck for a week in July to get here, so I bought some more.

Now, polyclay comes in a lot of flavors, and basic Sculpey III is probably the least appropriate flavor for tiny (the head is under an inch long) detail work, but it's what was most easily available. "It'll be fine," I thought, and then barely got it roughed in before it got too squishy to work with and I let it rest over night. Mouth's too high, eye opening needs a lot of refinement, and of course I'd be painting it midnight green so I have to remember to leave room for the thickness of paint.

So it's maybe not exactly terrifying, but it's made me think two things: this is probably a bad size to work in until I'm back up to speed. And also, I think I would like to get back up to speed. Spouse is getting the pottery set back up, and while I don't do wheel work (hands weren't strong enough twenty years ago and that sure hasn't gotten better over time) I do like hand-building.

In the meantime: I'll order some Cosclay, which is new enough I've never tried it out. And I will probably use the Sculpey to make eyes for the Indicolite Dragon on a fabric head, which means finally getting back to the embroidery machine to make a fresh one. I'll try to get some more samples made while I'm at it.

Oh: and a third head for the Love Dragon/Dragonheart, so I can put the eyes I used on the first (fishy) one on the revised head (with too-big "sunglasses" eyes) and finally get it back in the shop, and have a finished dragon to put in a newsletter!