Baby dragon

I'm a huge fan of dragons, all sorts of dragons (but western fantasy, not easter worm-like), little ones, big ones, flying ones, sitting ones.. ok you get the picture. I'm also quite fond of making dragons and here is a little one I made for my sister

 This one is about 15cm high and made from the most amazing sculpting clay I have used. Its called super sculpey and is a fleshy colour to start with. You can bake it in a normal oven at 130 C (yay no need for a kiln!) and is soooo responsive.

From the front on this photo she looks a little evil, but I just couldn't get a good angle to get her from the front

I've started with some tinfoil as an armature/base because this kind of polymer clay apparently shouldn't be too thickly applied. The scales was created by taking a bit of netting fabric and rubbing it into the clay and then pulling it out to leave a nice patter behind.

 I painted her with purple and pearlesent white and aded some black to the details. I also used some ink to bring out the scales - a technique I learned when painting miniatures which, sadly I haven't done in a while, but I only have so much time. And besides I'm easily distracted by new projects