Process of the autumn snails

Autumnal snails~ I am so happy about this idea. I have been wanting to make an autumn artwork for years and finally made something.
It’s not a painting and still something I’m proud of and it shows my love to my favorite season of the year.

Materials
aluminum foil and wire
Polymer Clay by Cosclay (soft and medium firm)
sculpey bake&bond
Holbein acryla gouache
different sculpting tools
materials from nature as reference

Imprint Process

For the leaf I imprinted an oak leaf on clay. Rolled out a thin piece of clay, layed the leaf ontop and rolled over again with a rolling pin, cut around and brought into shape.

The painting process

first I tried to paint on the baked clay directly but because of the grey color the paint lost its vibrancy. So i decided to prime all figures with gesso first.
I used acrylic gouache for all snails because of the coverage characteristics that gouache has. Otherwise normal acrylic paint would have been just fine. Additionally I like the matte surface.
In the future I will experiment more with different type of paints.

For the next little sculpture I have in mind, I want to try light clay (a doll type clay that usually comes in a pale pink color) so maybe I can skip the gesso process then.
And I want to mention, that my next sculpture still won’t be the painting recreation I planned already ages ago. haha but maybe after the next little animal. then hopefully.

Thanks for reading <3