Heart

Polymer clay: Human Heart (realistic)

Cool right? To be honest I could never remember the pulmonary blood vessels, much less figure out how they overlap each other, so the little vessels on the extreme right and left of the heart are there just to fill the image of the heart - I don't think they actually exist :P

This is entirely red clay. After I baked the piece I painted it with a coat of diluted black acrylic, then immediately wiped it down with tissue. Then I did some extra touch-up with red and black acrylic.

I tried to have this moist effect on the heart, so I applied a pretty thick layer of the Sculpey glaze, but it turned out so wrong. Glaze does not dry transparent. It's kind of yellow with a lot of bubbles (probably because I applied it with a coarse brush). Maybe I should have used a little bit of mod podge dimensional magic instead then glazed it over..