How to make figurines of polymer clay: a master class for beginners in the making of chicken and figurines for nail art

The topic of today's article is how to make figurines of polymer clay: the master class presented in this article will help you to understand this.

Master class for beginners in making chicken

As an example, a fairly simple technique for making a figure from polymer clay for beginners will be presented. For the work you need clay, colors of different colors, foil, a plate with a rolling pin, wire, toothpicks.

First you need to make the foil main parts of the future chicken: base, body,

Then you need to cover the foil with a sufficient layer of clay.

You need to take one of the parts, make it an oval shape - this will be the body, and to make the head, you need to form a neat ball from the other part.

Connect the head to the body with a wire, and then distribute a small part of the clay from the body to the head area.

To make garments, for example sleeves, you need to make two identical balls of clay, flatten one of the edges and attach to the trunk, smoothing the seams.

To make a collar, it is enough to make a sausage and wrap its neck, the lower edge needs to be smoothed, similarly you can make the bottom edge of the shirt.

To make shorts, you just need to form two balls, then flatten them, attach them to the body and smooth them at the attachment points to the body.

The beak is simple enough, you just need to attach a piece of clay to your head and smooth the seams. The only thing is to remove a little extra clay to open the beak.

To make hands, roll two sausages, bend them, and then use a wire to attach to the body.

Then you need to make feathers with a toothpick.

To make a comb, you need to make three tubes and then flatten them, and attach them to the top of your head, and then you need to make a lot of balls, flatten them and attach a toothpick to your head.

To make the legs, you need to make two sausages, and then bend them and insert the wire to put the chicken on the base, which is made on the basis of the third preform, on which pieces of clay are attached using a toothpick.

The tail is attached to the body with a wire.

Do not forget to make glasses for completeness of the image.

At this stage, the figure should be baked, then let it cool and then proceed to the painting process. First you need to apply a white background, and then paint all the details.

You can also pay attention to the video, which shows how to make other figures.

Figures for nail art

It is interesting to use figures from polymer clay for nail art. Examples can be seen in the photo.