I also found this beautiful autumnal mantis on my walk :) I didn’t plan to pick her up but she very quickly ran up onto my legs when i was sitting down to take pictures of her and i had to gently escort her away
I’m a hard pillow hard mattress man. I need reliability. I don’t want something to change into a completely different shape when I touch it, that’s lying and I don’t like liars.
Some more photos of my first big sgraffito’d bird ladies (in greenware mode - the raven I plan to glaze with blue/green translucent celadons to mimic the iridescence of actual ravens, the loon will just get a clear glaze once she’s bisqued)!
The common loon is a commission for a friend, and I’m hoping to have time to sculpt two more raven ladies because I think a three-raven photoshoot would be really cool (& also they’ll end up in my shop…or at least two of them will). This raven lady can hold a few stems of dried flowers/foliage or maybe some special feathers for her spellcasting :)
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