About this Product
It is a fully handmade one of a kind ornament made from handmixed papier-mache mass.
It has a wire and foil carcass, after everything was sculpted and fully dried i painted it with acrylic paint. Some shading was done with PanPastels.
Finished art toy was sprayed with UV Cut matte spray varnish.
Ears attached to the body with eyepins, so they are freely moving.
Size of the figurine is 8cm tall and 6cm wide.
The ornament is very light and not fragile so you can be sure it will not be damaged if it fells off the tree. However I do not recommend chewing it, watering it or dropping from the air plane on the hard surface. :)))
Meant to use indoors only!!!
It is a paper art!
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Meet the Maker
My name is Nataliia Grigoreva and I am an artist living in Bothell, WA in the United States. I grew up in central part of Russia, in a small town Oryol on the Oka river banks. I was one of the 5 kids in the family, right in the middle. I always was passionate about all kinds of art and crafts, especially about drawing, since it was the only one kind of art available to the child during that period of time. I started from coloring pages, which I was coping and enlarging from cartoons and comics. Also, I loved drawing household items late at nights with my graphite pencil. Later I found a craft club for kids where we were making beautiful pictures using wheat straw and glue. It was a blast! But I always had a fear to create my own characters and pictures. Thought I wasn’t good enough, I have no imagination, was too shy to show something different. Only later, when we moved to the US with my husband and kids, I found a hobby which I was only dreaming of. I started to create my own creatures from polymer clay. And a whole new period of my life started, I created my first Instagram account NGKawaiiCrafts dedicated to my polymer clay art.
Now I want to try every media in this world producing colors and shapes! In 2021 I started to dig into the art of glass! Melting and forming liquid glass is very calming and meditating process. And so new kind of art pieces started to emerge such as glass miniature sculptures, glass beads and bracelets, as well as my own glass eyes of different designs for art dolls and sculptures I create in mixed media technique. The very special part of my life is taken by birds, my cute companion is a sun conure Chibi. The most colorful bird in the world! And, of course, birds are always present in my art!
It is a pleasure of its own to work with customers making real their fantasy creatures. It can be a drawing, a sculpture, an art doll, a bracelet or even something new! Just reach out to me via any social media or you may always contact me at ngkawaiicrafts@gmail.com as well.
How it’s Made
The discribed process of making these ornaments takes 2-3 days to finish the sculpture. So I make a few toys at the same time to minimize waiting time. While first one is drying I am working on the second one and so on. You can watch my making process on my Instagram and TikTok (ngkawaiicrafts).
