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Happy Horse gets her first skin

In my last blog post you could see this very happy horse with a body of aluminum foil and legs of steel wire. Now it’s time for this horse’s first skin. As only the shape, not the color, is important...

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Happy Horse seems to be very happy with her second skin

To make the second skin for Happy Horse, I used the left-over black and white canes from the mare with her foal. I pressed the canes together to form a ball. Then I made slices, about 5 mm thick, of...

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This is how the little passenger was created from polymer clay

The Happy Horse is almost finished, but as I told you, she will have a little passenger on her back. Maybe it is her baby, her foal. This is how he was created. As usual, I started with a skeleton of...

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Happy Horse needed a tail – and this is how it was made

The tail for Happy Horse was made of the same thin sheet of clay that I used for the skin to Happy Horse and her passenger. With a knife I cut feather-shaped pieces that I comined together on a steel...

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Happy Horse needed a mane – she got small red beads

Now Happy Horse and her passenger (her foal) are almost finished. They only need manes, as they are horses. But I did not give them ordinary manes. I gave them small beads. The mare got red beads and...

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Now Happy Horse flies away with her foal right into the Swedish summer night

Finally everything is in the right place. Happy Horse has come to life, created in polymer clay. She has got her body, her skin, her tail, her mane and her beloved passenger – her little foal. Happy...

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How about cloisonné in polymer clay?

I started to think about a Mosebacke Horse in some kind of cloisonné-like technique. I did some research on the internet, and found some tutorials on faux cloisonné, but did not find any that used...

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Welcome to the new homepage for Mosebacke Horses in polymer clay

Yesterday, I rebuilt my homepage for Mosebacke Horses. I hope you will like it. I have made another top menue (it does not work fully on mobiles for the moment, but I will fix it in the next days),...

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Time to give the cloisonné horse a black body

In my last blog post about the cloisonne horse I came to the conclusion that I had to develop a technique of my own to make something that looks like cloisonné. To make this, I needed a black base for...

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Extremely simple canes for the cloisonné horse

For the cloisonné horse, I had an idea of creating a colorful, yet very simple pattern on the black body of the horse. I started with FIMOs basic colors and made some Skinner blends. One from white...

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Placing the canes on the cloisonné horse

I placed thin slices of my canes on the horse, roughly following my first sketch. The colors turned out fine against the black background. The small dimples you see in some places come from the tool I...

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Using copper wire to make it look like cloisonné

Now it’s the tricky part of it all. To make it look like cloisonné. In real cloisonné, you first make patterns with metal wire and then you add color in the fields between the wires. I chose to do it...

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It does not always work out as you want it to

Well, I did not succed with this one. Or – it is a very nice and goodlooking horse, but it did not turn out as I wanted. My intention was to make the horse look like it was covered with cloisonné. In...

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Making Stroppel Canes for the Stroppel Horse

In my previous blog post Alice Stroppel showed how to make Stroppel canes. Here are the left-over canes from the Cloisonné Horse and some black polymer clay. I rolled the black clay in thin sheets and...

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Preparing the Stroppel canes and slices

Now, the canes have been resting for a while and for the final one hour they have been in the fridge to cool down even more. As you can see in the photo, I also have ice packs under the sheet of paper...

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The Stroppel canes need a horse body

I made the horse in a similar was as I made the Cloissonné horse. The skeleton/armature was created in steel wire and aluminum foil, with legs made of bamboo skewers. I covered it all in black clay...

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Placing the Stroppel canes on the body of the horse

Now its time to carefully press the slices into the soft black clay on the horse. As you see, I only cover the upper part of the horse, the neck and the back. I use shorter slices for the neck and...

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The Stroppel Horse!

After a lot of sanding and lacquering – here she is – The Stroppel Horse! It is named after Alice Stroppel who invented this technique for making wonderful canes. The horse looks very proud with her...

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A Jigsaw Horse – play it!

This is a jigsaw puzzle. Play it and you will see the Mosebacke Horse that you may be able to follow the creation of during the next days.

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Transferring the contour of the horse

As you saw in the previous blog post, I made a pencil drawing of the horse from the photo. Then I mixed a brown hue of polymer clay and used the pasta machine for making sheets, approximately 1 mm of...

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