mg0930mg-oyle Gargoyle

Oogly moogly.  Need something to ward off or protect from evil spirits? Sculpt your own personalized gargoyle.  On Instructables there are some unique avatars that can be adapted for a personalized gargoyle such as this one www.instructables.com/member/mg0930mg/ .  You would have to ask Instructables member, mg0930mg, about his.

The term originates from the French word gargouille, originally "throat" or "gullet".  They are traditionally found in architecture to divert to runoff water from the roof.  This is technically a grotesque figure because it does not work as a waterspout of a rain gutter and only serves as decoration.

So get a hunk of clay and make your own gothic piece of sculpture to adorn the parapets of your cubicle wall or rest upon you desk.  Create in any scale you need.

Step 1 Don't be a sitting pigeon...

I had this 5lb chunk of self-hardening modelling clay that I found on sale one day at a craft store.  You can use any hardening clay whether you just air-cure it or put it in the oven or actually fire it in a kiln.  You could probably make do with play-dough but it will not take the handling if you move it about and probably cracks or sags when it dries out.  You can do this on a larger scale with papier mache but you will not have the details you can carve into clay.

I am not a sculptor but it is fun to work with any kind of art medium. 

I guess you could build some sort or wire armature/wireframe as a supporting structure but I made my gargoyle small enough to be self-supporting.

The only tools you will need are:

Your hands, easier to work with latex gloves
All purpose spatula - paint scraper
Anything else to make patterns or cut lines in clay

I have also seen various extruder/syringes and pasta machines used to form shapes.

Comments

[mg0930mg]

YAY!

[Gjdj3]

Awesome! How long did this take you to make?

[caitlinsdad]

 It was an after dinner project. It takes a few days to really dry out...it's still drying...

[Lithium Rain]

Haha, nice!