I found this little snow man Color Blanks figure that seem to fit the bill. Once I got started it was a process of adding some polymer clay to his face and feet and putting him in my oven for a first baking. For your viewing pleasure below are some pics of the original snowman Color Blanks figure and the figure once I started applying clay.

The Start of my Color Blanks Leprechaun – A snow man figure!

Sculpting features of the leprechaun onto the snowman Color Blanks figure.

I was recently asked if it is safe to bake these figures and I don’t recommend baking them in the same oven that you cook food in. I bought a used Nuwave (infrared) oven that I cook my figures in. The Nuwave ovens are small, much cheaper than buying a real second oven and will trap any fumes produced by the figure.

With the leprechaun Color Blanks figure, after the first baking I applied base coats of  acrylic paint to the hat, face and body. After the paint was thoroughly dry I sculpted the leprechaun’s jacket and beard. I then took the Color Blanks figure and put it in the oven for a second baking. It is important to note that I cook my figures with acrylic paint as well. As long as the underlying figure does not warp, the paint will hold up to the temperature.

With a few final paint & marker touch-ups, my Color Blanks Leprechaun figure is all set to go. Have a great St. Patty’s day!

The finished leprechaun Color Blanks figure.

Thanksgiving cornucopia Color Blanks figure

I started with a figure that had a can body shape. RoseArt was kind enough to send me some really cool and interesting figures to choose from this round and the can inspired me to create a cornucopia Color Blanks figure. I used polymer clay to modify the shape, acrylic paint for some color and Color Blanks pens for some details.

I then stuffed the Cornucopia’s open belly with all kinds of Kawaii style fruit & vegatables sculpted out of polymer clay. My 5 year old daughter who loves scuplting and drawing gave me a hand on this figure and helped sculpt many of the fruits and vegetables.

Thanksgiving cornucopia Color Blanks figure

Little Pumkin Girl Color Blanks Figure

Mix and matching color blanks figures

For this Color Blanks figure, I created a pumpkin hat, ghost balloon, pumpkin vine hair, a black dress and a little decorative pumkin out of polymer clay. She is painted with acrylic paints. The grassy stand is made out of a scrub pad.

This little pumpkin girl Color Blanks figure provides quite a cheerful contrast to my other Halloween Color Blanks. If you haven’t seen my Zombie Color Blanks figure check that out too. Thanks for taking a look!

Back-to-school Color Blanks Figure

Step 1: Select the Color Blanks figure

The first thing I did was get a general idea in my head of what I wanted to do the Color Blanks figure. Once inspiration struck I went and looked for a figure that best fit my idea.  In this case I used a Halloween themed Color Blank that resembled Frankenstein.

Step 1 – Select a Color Blanks figure

Step 2: Create a sketch of your Color Blanks figure

The next thing I needed to do was sketch the concept that I had in my head. The idea was to take a little character and turn it into a school bus. Popping out of the school bus / head of the figure were all kinds of school items. I also decided to give him a large backpack. I remember riding the bus when I was in school and it seemed like I was always carrying a backpack around with 30 pounds of books. I wanted to exaggerate this a bit with the idea of the huge backpack.

Sketch of Back-to-school Color Blanks Figure

Step 3: Take apart the figure

As with other Color Blanks figures I’ve done in the past, I disassembled and cut the pieces. I then took the pieces and sanded them down to make sure there were no rough edges and everything was relatively smooth.

Step 3: Take apart the figure

Step 4: Paint base colors on the figure

From this point it was a process of painting base coats on the necessary pieces.  I needed to paint most of the character yellow, much like a school bus, so it was important to get as much of it as possible coated and let it dry.

Step 4: Paint base colors on the figure

Step 5: Create a felt-acrylic paint T-shirt

I wanted to make the character a T-shirt and rather than having to bake something directly on the character I went with a different technique to create one.  I cut little pieces of felt and shaped them into a shirt. I dipped the pieces of felt into white acrylic paint and laid them onto areas of the figure almost in the same manner that you would with paper-mâché.  After I had the coated felt positioned correctly, I reassembled the Color Blanks figure and let it dry.

Step 5: Create a felt-acrylic paint T-shirt

Step 6: Select Eyes and Ink Details

While the main figure was drying I selected various sizes of Wiggly eyes to be used for the character as well as some extra ones that would be painted to create the lights of the school bus. After these were dry I glued them to the figure and starting inking lines using the Color Blanks pens.

Step 6: Select Eyes and Ink Details on the Color Blanks figure

Step 7: Hot glue some school supplies to the figure

Next after some more touch up painting and assembly of the head to the body, I took a variety of small craft letters and school themed buttons and started assembly of them in and on the head.

Step 7: Hot glue some school supplies to the Color Blanks figure

Step 8: Make a backpack for the Color Blanks figure

While some of the hot glue cooled I started to create a backpack and a pencil out of polymer clay. The straps of the backpack were actually made of some left over ground wire that I had.  After baking the backpack I hot glued it along with the straps to the Color Blanks figure. I then did touch ups with paint.

Step 8: Make a backpack for the Color Blanks figure

Step 9: Final touchups and a Color Blanks photo shoot

After a couple more touchups, a photo shoot and some post work in Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, here is the final back-to-school Color Blanks figure below.

Back-to-school Color Blanks Figure