How to Upcycle Empty Bottles into Faux Stone Creatures

Class 01:

• Who is Brenda?
• What will we be doing?
• Tools and materials we’ll use
• Making the eyes using polymer clay
• Painting the eyes
• Mixing and pouring resin (magic trick to remove air bubbles)
• Choosing a suitable wine bottle for the giraffe
• Forming the quirky neck
• Sculpting the body with tinfoil
• Tricks with foil to build up the body
• When to use a spoon for smoothing as opposed to a hammer

Class 02:

• Sculpting with foil balls
• Forming the basis for the head
• Creating the front legs
• Explanation of the back leg shape and how I bend the wire
• Sculpting and bulking the hind legs
• Preparing and using Paver Wrappers
• Applying the first coat of Paverpol

Class 03:

• Finish wrapping the legs
• Applying the rest of the first coat of Paverpol
• Mixing 5:1 Paverpol : Paverplast
• Explanation about when I will use “Rose Clay”
• How to determine where the front legs should be attached
• Attaching the front legs
• Determining where to place the rear legs and adjusting their shape to fit
• Tweaking the positioning of the rear legs and attaching them
• Thickening the Paverpo/Paverplast mix to fill in gaps
• Making Rose Clay

Class 04:

• Applying Rose Clay
• Tips and tricks with smoothing Rose Clay applications
• Refining the rear leg attachments
• Shaping the hooves with Rose Clay
• Beefing up the legs
• Refining the design of the attachment of the legs
• Sculpting the head using Rose clay including inserting the eyes
• Forming the ears with wire and masking tape
• Adding the ears to the sculpture
• Strengthening the ears with wrappers and foil

Class 05:

• Fixing a boo boo – smoothing the ears with Rose Clay
• Thickening the Paverpol/Paverplast mix
• Applying a thick coat in preparation for texture
• Creating a skin on the surface
• Giving the sculpture a furry texture
• Adding the tail and ossicones (giraffe horns)
• Making the mane
• Using an alternative method to create the mane

Class 06:

• Finishing the mane
• Mixing PaverSand into the product for more texture
• Adding physical spots
• Mixing paint colours
• Dry brushing light paint for “stone” look
• Mixing paint for the mane, ossicones and tail and painting them
• Adding a little shadowing
• Mixing paint for the spots
• Dry bushing the spots
• Painting the hooves
• Finishing the tail brush and ossicones
• Adding eye liner
• Applying eyelashes
• Sealing the giraffe with varnish

Class 07:

• Making the cat
• Start sculpting the head with foil
• Inserting the eyes
• Sculpting the front legs with foil
• Giving the face a profile
• Plumping the cheeks
• Making and attaching the ears (different to the giraffe)
• Improving the cat’s mood by repositioning the ears
• Start sculpting the hind legs with foil

Class 08:

• Continue sculpting the hind legs
• Adding a nose
• Making and placing the tail
• Attaching all the limbs
• Plumping the cheeks even more
• Adding a lower jaw and chin
• Covering everything with masking tape
• Smoothing the front leg attachments with tape
• Adding actual cheeks
• Improving the profile

Class 09:

• Coat everything with Paverpol Paverplast
• Thicken the mixture and paint a coat
• Create a skin and add texture
• (How to tell when the skin is ready for texturing)
• Adding the nose by sculpting with a brush
• Dry brushing and painting his nose and mouth
• Wrap-up

BONUS – OWL SECRET CONTAINER

• Tools and materials
• Preparing the bottle with Paverpol
• Sculpting the head with tinfoil
• Making a “feather frill” for the head
• Bulking out the head
• Discussing my thought process for the basic design
• Sculpting the body shapes including the belly and tail
• Covering with masking tape and then Paverpol/Paverplast
• Creating textures (both rough and smooth)
• Adding more Paverpol/Paverplast
• Taping the whole head
• Preparing the eye lace and beak
• Covering the head with Paverpol and explaining the eye position
• Adding eye patterns, beak and eyes
  Adding texture to the chin
• Using a doily to make wings
• Adding lace to the wings and a doily tail
• Making the body “feather frill”
• Adding the feathers to the body and making ear tufts
• Smoothing the ear tuft joints
• Painting the owl
• Wrap up

Open Facebook Group to students of this course:
Curious Mondo: Upcycled Empty Bottles

Time table:
9 hours

Level:
Basic / Intermediate / Advanced

Target market:
Home decorators, crafters, eco conscious artists, upcyclers

Main objective:
Learn How to Upcycle Empty Bottles into Faux Stone Creatures!

Prerequisite:
None