This photo shows how I did his wings. I wanted to try something different, hoping to incorporate this into future projects if it worked - which it did, really! What you see is the first step I did on the wings using a pretty stiff wire mesh that is thin like screen door material, but thick enough that you can shape it. The wings are actually two different pieces of mesh, one for the front set and one for the back set, since on real butterflies they do overlap each other and the wings are separate. I just cut them out of the mesh into the shape I wanted, with extra mesh to lay over the back of the horse, and then I Apoxied them right to the horses back. While I was working, I added the mane and forelock. The hardest part was smoothing the Apoxie onto the wings...the mesh wanted to tear, believe it or not, and I wanted to keep them fragile looking, not clunky. Sort of succeeded...hehe! |
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