One day I sketched this tiny two inch picture of a grotesquely deformed creature hand.

Years passed by and I saw it again. I wanted create a larger sculptural art piece with massive work involved. I formed a base line for it using wire aluminum foil and deer antlers (I don’t hang them on my walls I destroy them and turn into much creepier objects)Below is my armature form.

Pretty cool I thought. Again years pass by. Clay was finally put on the piece and it began to take form. Another long period of time passes by, I know, this is ridiculous right? Of course it is but, it’s all true. 2013-2014 arrives and I’m finally ready to detail the darn thing. After some minor reworking it is finally sculpted to completion. Here it is in the works (first five pics)and then finished (last seven pics.)

A little bit of fine tuning to the detail has been done and the piece has been baked. Yes I baked it in the oven. For this piece I used super sculpey which is a type of polymer clay that can be baked to harden to a ceramic type stiffness. Also can be found at your local big box craft stores.

The piece is now in another static state of waiting for paint and finishing work. 🙂 I’ll have to get back to you on this one.