Thread: "The Bride" Tutorial Part 5

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To make the hands, I used outlines of right and left hands as reference. Then I bent some wire to the approximate width and length of the fingers plus a little extra added to insert into the foam. For the palms and wrist, I just glued two blocks of dry floral foam with tacky glue and then cut that in half with a piece of thin wire. I traced the reference hand onto the foam and cut this out using a small knife and inserted the finger wire into it.






Next, I positioned the fingers and added the Celluclay and DAS clay as with the arms.





After the hands were dry, all the fine tuning was done....shaping, knuckles, acrylic fingernails, cuticles. I glued the fingernails on with super glue and then added a little skinny worm-like piece of clay around the edges to form the cuticles. Next, the hands were added to the arms. I inserted two U shaped wires at the wrist and inserted the hand into the wire that extended from the arm. Then positioned the hand and placed tape around that joint and covered it with Celluclay, let that dry, then covered it with DAS clay.



Finally, the last bit of sanding was done and two coats of Sculpt-or-Coat were added followed by a coat of primer and paint.



Continued on Part 6

Very nice work LB!
I looked at "Part 5" first, and was sure you were using a mask.....
that is, until I backtracked through "Part 1".

You have some real talent girl!!
I cant wait to see the rest of your WOW-To!!

What kind of paint do you use after the sculpt-or-coat?

I primed the sculpt and then painted with regular craft paint from Michaels.

those look super real!

-BYH

Wow.... this is just so amazing. How time did you take to sculpt just the hands? Can't wait to see the rest of project

Laurie you truly are a master.

Thanks BYH and dubbax3

klown82-thank you. This prop has been finished for a couple of years now and I'm not sure exactly how long it took to make her hands/arms, but they were made over the course of several days. You can view her her finished pics here The Bride pictures by Lauriebeast - Photobucket

We aren't worthy! We aren't worthy!!!!! LOL!!!

Great Job! I'll bet you find that sculpting and being creative like that is a great stress relief (most of the time! LOL).