Pictures of the final piece for my submission in 's Clay contest.

This Orca was made of Sculpey Polymer clay with a wire/foil/floral-tape skeleton and bulking. Painted with Acrylics and glazed with a clear spray-on glaze (the glaze didn't work too well and left a bunch of bubbles and drips. And it kept sticking to the newspaper I initially was using to protect the work space, so I had to keep repainting contact-spots, as it pulled the paint off).

The lighting is a little meh in these pictures... it gave everything a kind of orange tinge... I should have used the flash or something. The under-side images are about close to the right color. You can see the colors better in the WIP shots [link] where the surface is not so reflective.

As it says on the picture, the tail was my favorite part... there's no wire inside the flukes, they're purely sculpted.

I think that's about it. I had fun working on this and want to make more sculptures now... The Download size is a little bigger than fullview.