WitchCrafting: Crafts for Witches

There be Dragons

Merry meet.

When I fell in love with a Dragon’s Eye I’d seen on Pinterest, I felt I was lacking the talent and the tools to make one. Blessed be my artist friend Kerry Bower who likes to work with her dragon energy.

This is how she made them. Start to finish, you can finish one in about two hours, including baking time and cooling.

Gather Supplies:

Polymer clay (one small brick can make two eyes)

Polymer clay tools

Glass cabochons (the size of a quarter, found at dollar stores)

Multi-surface paint

Acrylic paint (or clay in the colors you desire)

Small detail brush

Oven

Shape a thin piece of clay into an oval that will be the size of the piece and place the eyeball roughly in the middle.

Roll out two clay snakes to form the top and bottom lids and place them as you wish on the eye. Using clay tools, blend the lids into the base to secure the cabochon to the base.

Form small cone-shaped horns and blend to secure them above the eye.

Roll tiny balls of clay, flatten them and place around the lid, pressing and shaping to form the scales.

Bake according to directions on the package.

If you choose to work with colored clay, you are done after baking.

Kerry used black polymer clay that she then painted with acrylics, explaining, “I like the black underneath, because when you dry brush it, it makes the colors pop so the scales stand out.”

“When creating each one, I could picture each dragon and the personality that would come along with each one. Dragon energy is powerful and it is a strong part of me,” said the magical, self-taught artist who works in multiple mediums.

She plans to add Dragon Eggs and Baby Dragons to her line.

Find her beautiful work on Facebook at Kerry’s Creations; or you can email her at [email protected]

Merry part. And merry meet again.

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About the Author:

Lynn Woike was 50 – divorced and living on her own for the first time – before she consciously began practicing as a self taught solitary witch. She draws on an eclectic mix of old ways she has studied – from her Sicilian and Germanic heritage to Zen and astrology, the fae, Buddhism, Celtic, the Kabbalah, Norse and Native American – pulling from each as she is guided. She practices yoga, reads Tarot and uses Reiki. From the time she was little, she has loved stories, making her job as the editor of two monthly newspapers seem less than the work it is because of the stories she gets to tell. She lives with her large white cat, Pyewacket, in central Connecticut. You can follow her boards on Pinterest, and write to her at woikelynn at gmail dot com.