About this Product
Hand sculpted one of a kind. Glowing in the dark polymer clay shaded with soft pastels. Glass flame on a wire. Can be removed for a safe transportation.
Eyes are covered with UV resin for glossy look. The candle is glowing green in the dark.
On the bottom of the sculpture there is my signature stamp.
Size is 4,5 inches tall (without a flame height).
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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
It is a one of a kind fully handmade figurine. I used a foil as a base to make a candle shape, then glowing in the dark Cosclay polymer clay was applied around the base. Added details. As for coloring I used PanPastels and acrylic paints. The light is made from soft glass. I used my torch for melting glass rods of different colors, making a shape of the flame. To hold the glass I took stainless steel wire. It is removable from the candle, so it will be coming in a ziplock pocket so it can’t be damaged during the shipping.
