Frog Prince

This one has been a long time in the making. Some 20 years ago (I was in my teens) I bought this book on fairytale characters and scenes in Fimo, mostly for this particular piece. I was not at all handy with clay back then so I never started the piece, until last year

Not only did I now have enough confidence in my abilities to work with polymer clay that I could finally create this piece, I even gave everything a twist of my own more or less (plus add to that that since the publishing of this book many new colours have been added to the Fimo range). And I actually like the final result even more than the original in my book *grin*

The original had blue and green marbles in the well and the whole piece was added to a fishbowl with 2 goldfish in it. Quite pretty, but not what I'm going to do. First of all I'm not a big fan of keeping fish in bowls and I certainly feel that placing goldfish in such a small container is a big no no. Seriously, don't ever do it. Secondly, I felt it would be much more fun, and probably more practical than loose marbles, to add swirls and clay fish to the well and fill it up with resin. As you can see that one little bit still has to be done, I just haven't got the resin yet. But I figure it doesn't really matter for this picture.