Fire Dancer Sculpt WIP

I meant to post this last week but decided the photos I had taken weren't good enough. Life sort of got in the way of sculpting in the last week, one of my cats passed away and I had chicken and pheasant chicks arrive. Now I've got better photos to share so here they are, the first stage of my Fire Dancer sculpt.
If any of you have ever wondered how I make sculptures like Odin's Runesong, Selkie Emerging and the Fire Dancer balace the way they do I've written an article on it. You can check it out here: Building a Balancing Armature.

I've been a Busy Squid

I have an ever growing number of Squidoo sculpting tutorial lenses. Here's the current list, I hope you find them useful.

Polymer Clay Sculpting Tips and Techniques
Techniques for Curing Polymer Clay
Painting Polymer Clay Sculpture
Building Armatures for Polymer lay Sculpture/a>
Using Liquid Polymer Clay

And here are some miscelaneous lenses built to be useful for artists.

Taking Successful Photos of your Artwork
Resources for Figure Artists
Resources for Animal Artists

I've also been named a Squidoo Giant Squid which has really motivated me to want to create even more resources for sculptors and artists. So keep a look out here or on Squidoo for them.

Curse of the Turtle

I don't think I've ever had anyone say anything negative about my Hatching Turtle sculpture but it just won't sell. I've now had the fourth potential sale of my turtle fall through (yes, four separate people). It's really getting funny that people seem to like my turtle enough to want to buy it just not enough to follow through.

The first time I got really excited and actually packed up the little turtle ready to be shipped out and the buyer backed out. Second and third time I got excited but both people were from outside the US so I knew the shipping cost might be a little too much to be worth it. This last time I decided I wouldn't get excited until I recieved payment, which I haven't yet.

For now turtle has a place in my display cabinet and I'm starting to think he's cursed and will be living there forever.

So what happened to the Carnival of Sculpts?

Well it was supposed to be yesterday, but I only recieved one entry for the carnival. Obviously I'm a little disapointed but I hope that the reason I didn't get entries was that everyone is too busy sculpting to blog. I'll set up the carnival again for next month but if it also flops I'll have to discontinue it.

Now for that one entry: A. Lee presents How Is A Bronze Sculpture Made? posted at eArtFair.com.

If you've read this blog much you know that I can't mold or cast to save my life. I greatly admire anyone who can so it's pretty cool to read about how bronze is done.

Fun with Perma-Pets

I had a little fun with my Perma-Pets this weekend. I created a Squidoo lens about them in the style of old fashioned advertisements.

Perma-Pet Sculptures by Noadi's Art

Article on Photographing Jewelry

I just had this article published with Associated Content, I wrote about the best ways I've found to photograph my handmade jewelry. I hope you find it useful.

Tips for Photographing Your Handmade Jewelry

Learn how to take beautiful photos of your jewelry creations to use when selling online or just to show them off on your website.

New Non-Art Blog

This is the last time you'll see anything posted here not directly related to Noadi's Art. I've started a new blog called Sheryl's Scribblings for all the articles, Squidoo lenses, websites, etc. that I do that aren't related to art or art business in any way. I do hope you'll check it out.