The final fish!

Here is the final fish (for details on how it was made, see post 'the making of the fish'). I could smooth the fingerprints off a little more, but I quite like having them on there, I think plasticine suits a few flaws.
If you're wondering what is in his hand, it's supposed to be an octopus flavoured wrap. The fish was initially going to be holding a can of beer, but after a few attempts, I quickly realised that I couldn't make very successful beer cans out of plasticine.

The making of the fish

I spent the evening with a bag of plasticine last night. I didn't really know what I was making, so it just evolved as I went along. Here are the photos I took along the way to give an idea of how the fish was made. I'll post the end product in a new post afterwards.

Olly the Octopus

This is Olly the Octopus, something I made a short while ago on my kitchen table. He took roughly 2 and a half hours to finish. I apologise for the quality of the photo but it's the only one I took at the time, and after two house moves, the origial model is looking slightly worse for wear!

Testing, Testing, 1..2...3

Hello!
Welcome to the first post on my blog, I hope it works!

This blog is here as a place for me to share my plasticine creations. I've been playing with plasticine since I can remember, and it all started off making salt-dough in my Mum's kitchen.
The creations that I'll be sharing with you were all made with Newplast plasticine, a soft, easy to model plasticine, similar to the stuff used to make Wallace and Grommit. I have no special tools, just my hands, a knife and occassionaly a tooth-pick or two to hold up flimsy models. I'll post about how I make some of the models, but if there's anything else you want to know then please just comment below.