Saturday, February 23, 2013

my Horned Toads


I've been making clay horned toads lately. When I was a child they lived in our yard, but
now they are extremely rare.  I'm using soft iron wire wrapped in newspaper as an
armature. I'm having trouble managing shrinkage of the clay and my toads tend to shed
their legs.  The poor chap on the left is unfired and probably will never be strong enough
to go in a kiln.