Handmade Air Dry Clay Cat Stretching Phone Stand

Hello, how are you? During lunch time, I love to eat in my working place and watch something, and that habit of mine is an everyday must-do before eating or while eating, I need to listen to gossip or watch vlogs. Sometimes I like to use anything to angle my phone to my liking.

I am in my craft era this month, and I plan to do a phone stand to place my phone. And I have a lot of air-dry clay, so I will try to attempt to make one. I saw a reference from Pinterest, she made a cat stretching phone stand, and I need one!

For my reference cat I do my very first cat that is passed away years ago and he is pure black cat and green eye like wow, so the story behind it is when I was in college one of my classmate mention that her cat gave birth and one of them is a pure black kitten, and she knows that I love to have black cat so she gave me one.

Materials I Used:

Air-Dry Clay
Glass Sheet
Spray Water Bottle
Clay Tools
Air Dry Clay Paste
Rotary Detail Carver

Portable Weighing Scale
Paper Towel
Acrylic Paints
Paint Brush
Water Glass Bottle
Sponge

Craft Time!

Sculpting:

Conditioning air-dry clay with a wet finger and kneading it until smooth, conditioning it prevents cracking in the drying phase. After that, I shaped all the parts that I needed for this craft. I needed a head, 2 ears, 2 hands, and feet, and upper body and lower body, tail, and the balls LOL, I use the portable weighing scale just to be sure that the pair of parts are equally in size.

I use this wire texture tool to scrape the part where I assemble each other, and then I apply an air-dry clay paste (which contains water and air-dry clay)to the part that I scrape.

And then I flatten and smooth the gap using this silicone tool.

I added a dent shape to the ear to make it look more 3d. and Then I started adding the upper part body and just did the same thing: scrape, paste, and smooth the gap.

For the hands, I fill in the gap with air-dry clay paste to prevent it from falling and to achieve the same effect as earlier.

This part needed a patient to just do the same thing, scrape the upper body, and then do the same thing to the lower part.

Scrape and add paste to the lower part, and then connect them by adding paste in between the gap and smoothen. Sometimes the upper body feels like falling, but just be patient filling the gap.

Now the upper and lower body is connected.

I shape the feet part first and then add it to the top part of the lower body and and fill the gap with paste and smooth it out.

Last is the tail and then the balls. What I do is I curve out the air-dry clay like an opposite C.

When everything is all intact, I am going to use a paintbrush to smooth out any bumps or imperfections in the clay and let it dry for 2 days because this cat is pretty thick.

This is what it looks like when it is completely dry.

Some imperfections still appear when it dried, so I am going to sand it using this rotary detail carver, you can also use sandpaper.

Time To Paint!

These are the materials I am going to use. First is I am going to use black acrylic paint for the fur.

Just paint it all over except for the ears and balls LOL. Oh, by the way, I added shades like brown and blues to the fur to make it dimensional in color.

Then I painted the ears and balls with pink as a base.

To add the eyes, I start with a white base first, and then I layer it with green.

And I added black to the eyes, I like it dilated, and then painted the nose pink too, and to make the mouth pretty visible, I used light gray to draw it.