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Fairy's face is just 3/8" wide!
14 butterflies tickle the tiny fairy to tears
Tickled to Tears By Butterflies ...
... is truely an original one-of-a-kind creation, made from polymer clay and scratch materials. About eighty percent of this scene started as blocks of polymer clay (not including the wood base and trim), and all colors of this portion are custom blends and designs made from the original clay colors. No external coloring medium has been used on any of these parts. All colors in the fairy's complexion are colors of the different clay, as well as all designs in foliage leaves and flowers, butterfly wings, rocks, mushrooms, etc. It is a very complex process to form the 2-D designs into the clay, and then shape it into a final 3-D form, but to me the results are priceless this way.
About 10 percent of the scene is permanently sculpted and reinforced synthetic fibers, which I have secured a permanent coloring medium onto. Besides that, paint I used on the butterfly fairy's wings is the only other external coloring medium I have used in the scene. The remaining 10% is a random mix of different materials I've used in making custom elements in the scene. No molds, die-cuts, stamps, printers, or any custom shaping tool has been used in the formation of any of the scene elements; just basic tools like razors, toothpicks, needles, etc.
A Mix of Mini-Happenings
- A frog catches a spider, that is dropping down from a web and was headed for the
mouth of a hungry venus fly trap
-A tiny grassfairy makes a quick escape from a gigantic flying beast with a
glowing rear, into a fairydoor in a mushroom. In fear, she slams the door behind her so quickly that she traps her green curly locks and
monarch-like green wing in the door
-Various butterflies cling to bits of fairydust in inconspicuous places
-A snail crawls up an iris leaf, leaving behind an iridescent trail
Other Facts
-Three 4-leaf clovers are hidden in the clover patch
-A total of 25
butterflies populate the scene, featuring 17 different breeds
(smallest = 1/16" wingspan, largest = 1/4")
-The fairy wand is 100% copper (started as wire and a paper-thin sheet of copper),
with an amethyst-colored glass gem in the
bottom. The butterfly on it is backed with an iridescent film
-The fairydust bag is 100% copper as well, including the natural iridescent colors I
have worked in with heat and put a
tarnish-proof coating on
-All elements are in 1" scale except the firefly, which is life-sized, and has a glow-in-the-dark rear
-I made the mushroom behind the frog to match the surrounding grass, and it
also glows in the dark
-The diameter of the scene from one side of the ground to the other is 6"
-The fairy's dress is made from delicately-constructed sprigs of fairy fanflower. When blown on at
certain angles, the flowers actually fan
Foliage
Just under a hundred sweet-clovers and 2 sweet-clover flowers
3 periwinkle plants
Purple-shamrocks and purple-shamrock flowers
Iris leaves and flowers
4 venus fly-traps
Bermuda grass
Japanese ornamental grass
Fairy fan-flower sprigs
Purple pansies
Butterfly breeds
Monarch
Anise swallowtail
Red-spotted purple
Western admiral
Buckeye
Cloudless sulphur
Spring azure
Brown elfin
Cabbage white
Purplish copper
Ringlet
Sara orange-tip
Question mark
Common wood nymph
Little wood satyr
Checkered white
Dainty sulphur
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I welcome all questions and comments.
FairyInDaSkies@gmail.com
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