Cute Critter Week ~ Bulldog Tutorial

Cute Critter Week: Snoopy tutorial

Make This Sleepy Puppy

Make this cute sleepy puppy with cold porcelain or other air-dry clay. Materials needed include:

Cold Porcelain (about 1 lb...500 gr)
Polystyrene or Styrofoam spheres No 4 and No 5  (1 for body and 1 for head)
Acrylic or oil paint to pre-tint white clay: Raw Sienna and Burnt Sienna
Sculpting tool & clay roller
Vinyl or water-based glue
Eye stickers (or paint the eyes)

Blushing powder  (pastels, scrapbooking powder or make-up)

Black permanent marker for "freckles"
Optional wood base

Acrylic paints for the wood base:  yellow and white

Acrylic paint to tint clay for "quilt buttons":  blue

"Lady": Make This Cocker Spaniel

Create this cute Cocker Spaniel from your choice of air-dry clay or cold porcelain.  Works best with the softer air-dry clays.   I think she looks like "Lady" from "Lady and the Tramp".  If you don't have pre-colored clay, you can pre-tint your clay with acrylic or oil paints or with gel food colorants.

How to Create this Puppy with Cloud Clay

Isn't that a cute face?    In this video demo, Linda Peterson shows us how to create this little dog with Cloud Clay, a soft air dry clay. This would be a good cold porcelain project too, and a good beginners project!  Cloud Clay is kid-friendly and very similar to Model Magic.

Make a Comical Conical Dog

Follow Pat Little's simple instructions to make a cute, comical dog with papier mache.   Great project to do with the kids.

Make a Boston Terrier from Papier Mache

Make this cute Boston Terrier from papier mache following these instructions from Pat Little.  Methods could be easily adapted to other breeds of dog.   Instant papier mache might be an option for building up body thickness.  Another idea is to use Creative Paperclay to sculpt small details...such as nose.