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Author: leaflin, Contributing Editor
 | Here is his tail completely finished.
All of the electrical wires and exposed pipe cleaners were wrapped with satin ribbon. Then pom-poms were applied to hide the ends. His whole body was coated in Gesso then given an undercoat of purple. |
 | The Eyes
I added the eyes, which are styrofoam balls, then started building up around them with pulp. When the pulp dried, I added some detail with the 'Paper Clay.' I also added a layer of 'Paper Clay' on the beak and sanded it smooth. |
 | I worked a little more on his head, and added outer eyes, nostrils and a small crest
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 | I wanted to add some feathers to the head and wings so I made some smaller ones.
I cut strips of Lame' 1 3/4 " x 10." As with the other feathers, this was cut with the weft threads going across and the warp threads going up and down. I ran a bead of 'Aleen's Quick Dry Tacky Glue' down the selvage and smoothed it out with my finger. I then laid the 'feather' on plastic wrap to dry. The glue stopped the lame' from fraying and was tacky enough to stick when I wrapped it. When the glue was dry, I frayed the feathers up to the glue line. I folded a 12" pipe cleaner in half for added strength, then wrapped the frayed Lame' strip around the pipe cleaner. |
 | I did 48 of these
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