Sculpting challenge: Day 64! Mouse complete, bunny started, and my new kitty pics!

So I guess I have a lot to post tonight! lol

First off, I finished painting the mouse! It looks really nice now that it's all painted and I'm very happy with it! I'm glad I started the painting part of the project next instead of figure sculpting. It's nice to see the sculpts completely finished! For the painting, first I did a dry brush over the whole sculpt to bring out the fur detail. Then I washed over darker parts of the fur pattern with thinned darker brown paint, then worked on detailing, and put a light pink wash in the ears. I also painted the previously blue ground with browns and greens to make it look like ground.

( A couple of the progress pics of the mouse, and the finished mouse! :D )

After I finished painting the mouse I started on my bunny sculpt! I was still getting used to the oven I was using and I accidentally overcooked him a little, so the sculpey was really dark. This was also still before I started using black clay for the eyeballs. So I was pretty happy to start painting him! I've put a couple colour washes of reddish brown over the body and I painted his eyes black.

( Before and after pics of the bunny with the first paint wash )

And as promised, the pictures of my new kitty Talar'raa! I didn't get a whole lot of good shots, but you get the idea. :3

( Meet the newest member of our family! :D )

Heading out to vote

So before work today I'm going to vote in the election. You should too, if you live in the states!

I'm trying to attract your attention to this post with a cute walking kitty icon. Kitty wants you to vote! Don't make the kitty sad!

Sculpting challenge: Day 65! Bunny paint complete!

I finished the sleepy bunny sculpts paint tonight! I'm super happy that this is going so quickly! First I touched up the colour paint I did last night, then I did a dry white wash over that. Then I stained over that with layers of very dark brown, then painted white detailing. I'm really happy with how he turned out! :D

( A couple of painting progress pics of the bunny, then the finished bunny! )

Tomorrow I'll start the harp seal paint! :3

In other news, I am so so so excited that Obama won! I'd been avoiding the tv all day because after voting and encouraging others to vote, there was really nothing I could do except stress, and that seemed silly. We'd flipped over to the news, and I saw that Obama had won already! I was so surprised and it was a wonderful surprise. :D