Bananas, lemons, and squash, oh my!

I pulled yellow clay out this morning and worked on the bananas first. I rolled a soft yellow with translucent clay into a log then cut it into 1/2″ pieces. Then I carefully “squared” these pieces so they would have ridges, pinched the ends closed, and stretched the stem end out a bit. I stuck some of the bananas together at the stem. Then I carefully added very thin brushstrokes of green at the ends of the bananas and painted the stems brown.

After baking, I added a few more brown spots and touched up the paint on the stems.

I added a brighter yellow piece of clay to my leftover “banana” clay to make the yellow squash. These were simple to shape, then I added texture with a sanding block and a toothbrush. I cut the stem ends with green and shaped them with my razor blade. Finally I added a thin coat of yellow paint to add depth of color before baking them in the oven.

The zucchini was made with clay that I rolled out of strips of both light and green clay, as I wanted to capture the streaks of color found in that type of squash. I added light green stems to both ends and baked them in the oven.

The lemons were rolled with the remaining yellow clay, texturized with a brighter yellow liquid polymer on a toothbrush, then baked. I covered them with gloss and put them in a bowl I made yesterday for fun (the bowl is out of scale for the Mouse House but I wanted to decorate something with the yellow and blue cane slices I made for practice).

I need to get to work on crates and baskets so I have somewhere to put all of this food!