"le Petit Acrobate..."

The "little acrobat" is coming along... with a paperclay head and paperclay covered wings in place.  I base coated the entire piece in black and am now beginning to figure out a color scheme for this little guy!  His trapeze is a wooden dowel and beads with some covered floral stem wire.  I do know that a feathered tiara is in the works...

"le Petit Acrobate" (the little acrobat)

Our newest challenge at Cloth and Clay is to 
design a "bird doll." I'm using a styrfoam ball as the 
base for my head, attached to a clothe body.  
I decided to use HUGE 26 mm eyes 
(to give it that "baby bird" look).

Wool felt for the eyelids and Lutradur 
over heavy cardstock for the beak.
The legs are fabric with wooden dowel insets 
and pipe-cleaner feet!  The feet will be covered 
with florist tape and then a coat or two of Gesso.