Merry Christmas Steemians! - Coming back to Steem + Mini Santa Elf Sculpture

Happy Christmas holidays everyone hope you are all having a great day. I haven't posted on steemit in a while being busy with work and university however, I have continued to curate and invest in steem when ever possible. I have also not stopped drawing and plan on sharing techniques I have learnt and drawings over the past few months in future.

Today, I will share a little clay sculpture of an elf I made and painted in acrylics. I haven't used clay much in a long time so it was fun playing around with it.

I started with simple shapes to get the general features such as sphere for head and bean shape for the body. I then used a thin wire to carve details into these shapes. I also used the thin wire as a frame to connect the arms, legs and head to the main body. It was quite tricky working on such a small scale and pieces fell off at times but managed to get them all together in the end.
This was the finished result without paint.

After letting it dry for a few hours I did a brown undercoat in paint on the model. Once this coat was dry I started painting the main colours red, green, black, orange, yellow and skin colour. It required a few coats for the finished piece.

When it was dry and was happy with the final piece I went over it in PVA glue. This gave it the final polished look. I'm sure if I did the whole thing again it would look neater and better but overall I'm pleased with this attempt at creating a mini elf.

I hope you enjoyed this post!
Merry Christmas!🎅