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ORIG: Crispy the Lucky Cat

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What? An original sculpture in the style of a "maneki-neko", a lucky cat or beckoning cat.

Details: Jovi air dry clay, painted with acrylics, glazed with Fimo gloss glaze.

Size: ~30cm tall

My Comments:

I made this cat for my friend's bar, known as Crispy Bistro in Hong Kong. His bar needed some more decoration and I needed an outlet for my creativity, win-win.

This cat is one of the largest things I've ever sculpted. He weighs in at about 2.5kg, due to the sheer amount of clay I had to use. I actually haven't sculpted using this clay in a long time, maybe the last time I used it was for my giant Absol, which was at least 6 years ago. Nice to know that the clay hasn't changed and it worked exactly how I expected it to. It's quite a nice clay, and I would love to spend more time working with it. 

I spent almost a solid week on this guy, and I probably couldn't have finished him so quickly if I had had to go to work. At the time of sculpting I was on a bit of a holiday and I watched a lot of Netflix while making it! However I was also on a bit of a deadline, since I needed to finish the cat before I headed overseas. I managed to make my deadline though!

I'd love to do more sculptures like this. I don't know when I'd have the time or space though.. the cat was quite big and I needed to find a place to sit and sculpt him, not to mention a place for him to dry and such. 

Instagram: Visit my Instagram for WIPs! 
Image size
5472x3648px 1.68 MB
Make
SONY
Model
DSC-RX100
Shutter Speed
1/250 second
Aperture
F/3.5
Focal Length
10 mm
ISO Speed
320
Date Taken
Oct 3, 2016, 3:16:03 PM
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deviant art in 2016
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