Little Clay Monster!

Well, I didn't get time to make a stupidsockmonster as promised, unfortunately I had two very sick girls to look after all weekend.



However, we did manage to play with some clay, and while the kids made a mess with the white clay, I managed to make a little red ClayMonster... loosely based on a previously made stupidsockmonster. It was a little tricky to dry him, I didn't quite know how to place him in the oven with such a long tail, but managed to hang it down between the grills in the oven shelves!



I'm out of the white gouache, so I tried a waterbased latex paint this time. Here is 'Clay' with his first coat of white, and then his colours and varnish!







What do you think? I do like him, however, I don't recommend the latex paint, the gouache works much better on the red clay, and with the other colours. I also like the way the gouache reacts with the varnish... he may be the first of a complete ClayMonster family!!!