It's Been a Long Time...from our clay modeling archives today!

It's been a long time since I have posted anything at all. Last week was quite busy all through the weekend and I haven't been able to upload any tutorials recently. Just came across these snaps of clay modeling we had done some time back...maybe at beginning of the last year...thought I should share some pics of the same.

Clay Modeling 

It was one of those boring summer afternoons here in Dubai...yeah...Dubai and how can it be boring?...Well summers here are hot and boring seriously...either you stay indoors or you spend time loitering around the shopping malls...and people who know me, would also know that I am not of that types who would love to spend hours at a shopping mall doing nothing. Well, so my kid and I, yeah again...my child and I, are most of the time stuck together since the daddy of the house is too busy with his own activities, even on weekends! So my child and I, have to keep each other entertained..

So we took out our stock of clay and our plastic clay modeling tools that came with the clay pack. And we decided to do something creative that afternoon. And the credit of this entire model goes to my daughter for it was her idea completely. Initially, I thought we would model a simple model of a house from clay but she said no...and suggested why not try modeling a mushroom house instead...so there we were...She also had a story to tell...and it went like this...

Once upon a time, there lived a little girl called Melony. I asked her why Melony?...and she continued...Because she loved eating melons and she had a big garden full of melons. So, this Melony lived in a Mushroom house, and she was fond of gardening, and her garden was filled with melons and roses...

Clay Modeling a little girl 'Melony'

As she wove her story round the character of Melony, we had a nice and playful afternoon, modeling a mushroom house, surrounded with a garden filled with roses and melons. Here, is the final model of the clay mushroom house. By the way, we used plasticine clay for this model.

Clay Mushroom House 

As you see in the above picture, we build a mushroom house complete with doors and windows and a small garden. The small garden is complete with a pathway lined up with melons and roses. To the extreme left of the picture, you can also see a tiny girl (yes that's our Melony) with her baskets of flowers and melons.

And here are some more pics of the same clay mushroom house with Melony.

Mushroom House with Melony

We had a wonderful afternoon with stories and clay...laughter and fun...and wonderful memories that I could share with all today!

Thank you for stopping by...have a good day!

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Clay Modeling Work at Art Hours

As the year 2016 comes to an end, we, at Art Hours, had great fun learning new skills and exploring new horizons. We had some students who were keen to learn and some who were not so keen, some who had the patience to carry on till the end and some who gave up midway, but mostly all the students who joined Art Hours were enthusiastic learners with creative and intelligent minds. When I say 'we' at Art Hours, it's most often me and my daughter, because most of the activities that you will find in my blog or my FB page are all combined ideas and work of the two of us. I love hearing out to her ideas, sometimes they lead to great innovations! I love listening to her as she chatters all the way about everything and anything and out of the many things that I learned from her is being happy. When you are happy you will do better in life and that's a lesson we all must learn from our children. 

When we started 'Art Hours' classes at the beginning of this year, we started with clay modeling. The twin clay Ganeshas that you see below was our first post on our FB page. From then onwards we have done a lot of experiments with plasticine clay and air dry clay. Below are some work done by us at Art Hours, some done by our regular students, some done by us the 'daughter & mom' duo. All these clay modeling work that you see below are made from plasticine clay. For some models, we learned and gathered ideas from the internet while for some we just experimented on our own. 

Plasticine clay is a versatile and ideal material for kids as it can be stretched or twisted and molded into any shape without the fear of getting cracks or breaks. It doesn't dry fast, in fact, we have reused the clay several times for different models. However, the color from the clay sticks on your hands while you work with it, so if you are a fussy mom who doesn't like untidy hands don't bother to use it. We, at Art Hours, believe that if you don't take the pains you will not learn anything...so if little color sticks on your hands, you can always wash it away later and that should not stop you from experimenting with clay and having fun.

Here, are the pictures of all the work we have done so far using plasticine clay.

Twin Clay Ganeshas

Clay Disney Dolls: Ariel, Aurora, Snowhite, Jasmine, Mulan and Mirinda
from L to R in a circle.

Clay Color Palette

Clay Mushroom House for Melony

Clay Flower Well

Miniature Clay Basket of Flowers

Clay Bunny Rabbit 

Clay Rabbit 

Clay Diyas

Clay Flower Vase

Clay Braided Hearts

Clay Bird Houses

Hope you get some ideas from here, and try them out at your homes. And if you try them do share your pictures with us. So keep learning and exploring, it's never too late. 

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