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Ri na Seilidi with Shell saddle
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Published: 2014-09-16 23:10:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 15600; Favourites: 709; Downloads: 91
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Rí na Seilidí (king of snails) is the mount owned, used and trained by Myasma Nettlebrook - a notorious sap trader and nomad of the New Forest.The saddle is Primarily made from Picea abies (european spruce) cone scales and stripped sycamore seeds, stitched together using bullrush and sycamore leaf veins, nettle twine and yew tree sap. The seat is a carved acorn cupule.
The snail is made entirely from translucent polymer clays.
This is only part of a diorama that is now completed… Ri na Seilidi and Myasma Nettlebrook
Thank you everybody for favouriting, commenting kind words of encouragement and praise. Very very appreciated.
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Comments: 82
Simply incredible! I'd love to know how you did the texture of the snail's... Uh, skin? Membrane? It really looks great.
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Well hello you… why fanx!!
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Just nipped to your page intrigued by your name.. wow. An artisan telling me that means a lot. Thankyou sir.
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Back at you! Keep creating 😀
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wow.. thanks. I'm so looking forward to what you and others will say when they see the whole thing.
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Holy, this must be the deviation of all days. It looks fantastically alive and that's one hell of a charismatic snail haha
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Aaaw… thanks. and the snail would say thanks also methinks.
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Wow.. just looked at your profile. I'll probably be flicking to your bark and mushroom pics for reference whilst sculpting the base for this.
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Thank you... Insanity is the father of invention.
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The texture of that snail looks so real! Really well done!
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I'm really happy with it… but like always I still want to do better. Us artists are never happy. Thanks.
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Of course, it's the path to improvement
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Me too… especially in garlic butter on toast with shaved white truffle.
I seriously doubt I'd be able to eat them now that I've been studying them so closely.
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Yeah Snails are eatable arn't they. like alot of other Bugs out there
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I thought this was real at first fight! Outstanding work! Well deserved DD.
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"But that's impossible!!!"
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That you knew the reference just made you that much more amazing.
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aw<3 I needed some time to realise this snail was not rail o.o
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Wow! That is seriously impressive. Amazing detail! The DD is well deserved. Congratulations! ^_^
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Amazing! The first thing I thought when I saw it was - is there a wizard on the shell?! And if you didn't say it's clay, I'd totally believe you it's real!
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Beautifully crafted.
It looks absolutely life-like!
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It'll be sure to be neat when the whole thing's done. ^_^ That snail is awesome, by the way. I was like, 'what's the deal with that snail? Is it alive? Dead?' and then saw where it's mentioned that it's made of clay. O_o ...Is the shell clay, too?
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it is clay. I thought of using a giant land snail shell but it's the wrong type of shell for what I wanted. The shell and snail is a re-imagining of a Roman Snail; the edible snail crossed with the common snail. Thanks for the 'awesome'!
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