Skeleton Hand Choker and Hair Clip

Merry Christmas to all and I hope Santa delivered all the presents you wished for :)   

As you can tell by my other blogs I tend to make skull pendants and other strange jewellery, so I thought why not make some creepy skeleton hand jewellery?

These where rather difficult to make. Trying to get the fingers to look as skeletal as possible was the hard part, that and bonding them to the metacarpal bones. I hand sculpted every part of these skeletal hand. I don't use moulds unless I really have to.  Each to their own as they say. 

Skeleton Hand Hair Clip and choker

These are fun to make, even if the process is a pain in the backside! 

To make these I started with the metacarpal bones first. I just formed a oval shape from a blob of polymer clay and flattened the back of it. With the back now flattened, the top was left oval and domed. Before I made the fingers I sculpted

the metacarpal bones. I use stylus tools but you can use a tooth pick if you don't have a stylus tool. Taking my time I outlined the basic shape of the hand. After I mapped out where I should start shape and characterise the detail. Once this part of the skeleton hand was done I then moved on to the disturbing and eerily long bony fingers. 

I rolled out the polymer clay in to long strips then cut them to size. Once cut I then attached then to the metacarpal bones. I used liquid fimo when attaching the fingers as it bonds during baking. Convenient and practical yay! :) 

Back to the making of the bony fingers, so after I rolled out the polymer clay ad attached the bony fingers. I then added in the finger joint detail. After all this shaping and detail, I then added shading with a grey pigment powder. After all this, which took me two days to make, off to the oven they went. Once they had cooled I then glued a blank hair clip to the larger skeleton hand....., and yes I glazed it :)  

For the choker I drilled a hole at the bottom of the hand so I could put a jump ring on it. As you can see it's attached to a black velvet ribbon which was measured, cut and made in to the choker. I will be making more of these as I just love them. I'm afraid the photographs of these aren't very good as someone asked me to make the choker for someone's Christmas, so I didn't have time to take very good photographs of them. However! When I make more I shall take much better pictures of them :)  

Keep It Spooky Children Of The Night!