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WHAT YOU NEED

one stick of Cernit Number One per colour: flesh pink, black, white, red and brown (you can use also other colours or leftovers of former works)

tinfoil

toothpicks

scissors and cutter

one small rolling pin or a hard plastic glass

oven paper

sticks to model clay (optional but useful)

very thin sandpaper (00)

one oven

TIME OF MAKING

about 6 hours, including cooking

Two or three thing you must know about Cernit: if you'd like to know some tips about Cernit before starting, go to my web page  Some Technique.

HOW TO DO IT

I started from an idea that was given me by my first client (hi Angela!). She desidered something humoristic to decorate the wedding cake, not the usual (and sad) plastic bridegrooms.

Therefore, you see my first sketch on the right. During the realization I had to make some variation to the basic idea, you'll see how.

STEP 1

Create a kind of "bell" with the tinfoil, starting from a ball well compressed, enlarging the base even adding some more tinfoil. It will be the bride basement, where we'll create the gown.

STEP 2

Cut the lower outline with scissors, to model it as a regular round shape. Prepare a little tinfoil ball about 1,5 cm diameter, and give it a shape just a little bit stretched at one end, like a pear: this will be the bride's body.

STEP 3

Insert a toothpick inside the tinfoil ball, leaving it coming out from the top and the bottom, and insert it in the "bell" basement with the outstretched portion downward. Then prepare onther tinfoil ball smaller then the first one: this will be the bride's head.

STEP 4

Insert the smallest tinfoil ball over the toothpick that protrude from the bride's body, having care that the toothpick sting doesn't come out fom the ball.

STEP 5

Cover with some tinfoil stripe the toothpick that you see on the bride's neck. The result we have now is illustrated inte picture beside.

STEP 6

Insert a toothpick horizontally, passing from one side to the other of the bride's body, where's the shoulder line, cutting a piece of it if it should protrude too much. You'll need it to hook the arms.

STEP 7

Enroll a toothpick in a little square tinfoil, cut it halfway with the scissors, then break the two parts all over to model one halfcircle: these will be the bride's arms.

STEP 8

Insert one tinfoil halfcircle just created over one end of the toothpick that's the bride's shoulder. Do the same with the second arm.

Now we're ready to cover our tinfoil core with Cernit.

STEP 9

With the small rolling pin (or the plastic glass) flatten one pink Cernit small ball until it has some millimeter thickness, and cover the head having care to adjoin the clay on the back, so the adjoining will be hidden by the hair that will be added later. Cut with scissors the excess of Cernit, and do it adhere levigating it with fingers to the tinfoil (without pushing too much, if you don't want to feel the tinfoil through the clay).

STEP 10

Go on like Step 9 for the neck, the decolléte and the arms, having care to adjoin the clay in the less visible spots. Lean the clay on the spot to cover and cut the excess with scissors. The borders must overlap a little if you don't want to create an unevenness, and must be pressed levigating to close the clay around the tinfoil. Be careful to hide well the tinfoil.

STEP 11

Apply two little pink Cernit balls to make the breast, and cover with white Cernit the body and the back. Apply two keen white Cernit braces to hide the junction points of the pink Cernit on shoulders, or two halfcircles to create two puff sleeves.

Using the rolling pin, make a white Cernit stripe, then, starting from the rearside, begin to bind it around the tinfoil bell, pulling slightly and overlapping it to the stripe above. If the stripe isn't long enough to complete all the covering, attack another stripe on the rearside again, in the point that the first stripe is finished, and go on.

The pictures and the particular idea of this realization are copyright (c) 2009 - 2010 Roberta Mussio - Angela T. It's forbidden to reproduce it for merchandising purposes without explicit agreement.

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