Melted Snowman
Designed by Oscelyn Brooks

• Opaque liquid sculpey about ½ oz, adjust as necessary – May be purchased online from Polymer Clay Express or Clay Factory of Escondido If you have Translucent Liquid Scupey you can make it opaque by adding a small amount of white oil paint, solvent free.
• Very small amounts of various colors of Premo! Sculpey.
• For this project, I used:
  • Brilliant Red (5584)
  • Black (5042)
  • Orange (5033)
  • Raw Sienna (5392)
  • White (5001)
  • Green Pearl (5299)
  • Glass Tile to Bake On
  • Needle Tool
  • Pasta Machine
  • String to Hang

• Squeeze opaque Liquid Sculpey onto baking sheet or tile in the shape of a snowman (use the tile or baking sheet that you intend on baking the snowman on. You will not be able to move it, until after baking.
• Roll two 1/8 balls of black clay for charcoal eyes, 5 or 6 (depends on how much room you have in the mouth area) – 1/16 black balls for the mouth.

 

• Roll a 3/16 ball of orange clay into a ball. Using the index finger to shape the ball into a carrot by rolling one side of the ball into a point. Use needle tool to impress lines in the carrot.

• Assemble as shown by carefully placing the little balls of clay onto the Liquid Sculpey, it the balls don’t fall exactly where you want them, they can be moved a little but using the needle tool, being careful not to push them down into the Liquid Sculpey.

• To give your snowman a scarf, cut a 2 - 1/2 inch long and ¼ inch wide strip of red clay, rolled down to #4 (with #1 being the thickest setting) on the pasta machine. Fold in half; use the needle tool to scratch the ends of the scarf for fringe. Drape onto melted snowman, as shown.

• Roll a ½ inch ball of raw sienna. Separate into two pieces, the pieces do not have to be equal. Re-roll into balls, then into logs, fold, to form a “V” shape, the “V” shape does not have to be symmetrical, uneven is good! Pinch the bottom of the “V” as shown to form “arms”. Place on Liquid Sculpey body, beneath mouth.

• This is a great project to use up those tiny bits and pieces of clay that you just don’t know what to do with. Using very small bits of clay, make buttons. Use the needle tool to put two buttonholes in each button or use the back of a screw to give the button a pattern. Place on the snowman’s body.

• Roll a ½ inch ball of green pearl into a teardrop. Flatten with fingers to form a 1- ½ inch long triangle, should be about 1 inch at the bottom of the triangle.

• Wrap bottom with white clay. Add a white ball to the top. Fold downward so that the ball on top of the hat is resting near the white band of the hat. Use the needle tool to poke a hole through the top of the hat. A hole can also be drilled through the hat after baking. Place above snowman’s eyes.

• Bake for 20 minutes. Liquid Sculpey bakes at temperatures between 275 degrees F and as high as 300 degrees F. If using light colors of clay, such as the white on the band of the hat, bake at the lower temperate at 275 degrees F or 280 degrees F. The higher temperatures will cause the white clay to darken. Let cool, pry him up off of baking sheet and insert string for hanging.

• My snowman ended up being about 3 inches long. Yours could be a little bigger or smaller depending on how much Liquid Sculpey you use in the beginning.