Frame for a photo with a monkey, created by own hands from polymer clay, is very relevant on the eve of 2016.

Materials and tools:

• baked polymeric clay brown, corporal, orange, yellow, green, light green, white and black;
• dry art pastel of pink and light green color;
• foil;
• strong adhesive;
• wooden frame for photography;
• a rolling pin for polymer clay;
• brush;
• needle;
• tool with a ball on the end;
• knife;
• sponge;
• mold for leaves (optional).

Stages of work: 1. From foil, form an oval for the monkey's body and a round head of a suitable size.2. Roll out clay of any color into a layer and cover the foil parts with it. This layer of clay will help smooth out all the unevenness. Now roll out the brown clay into a layer 2 mm thick.3. Wrap the pieces with brown clay. Trim off any excess and smooth the edges with your fingers.4. Roll out a piece of flesh-colored plasticine thinly.5. Using a knife with a sharp tip, cut out a part that will be the monkey's muzzle. Its shape can be oval, round, or pear-shaped.6.Place the muzzle on the front side of the head and smooth it with your fingers. Use a large ball dotting tool to make two dimples at the top of the muzzle. You can leave the belly brown, or you can glue an oval cut out of a layer of flesh-colored clay to it.7. Mix the flesh-colored clay with the brown clay and form a small oval nose.8. Stick the nose on the muzzle.Use a needle, toothpick or stack to make a mouth for the monkey. The shape of the mouth depends on what expression you want to give to the face. So, you can make a face with a wide smile, make a mouth in the form of a round hole or any other shape you want.9.Make two small ovals from white clay and place them in the eye dimples. Stick even smaller black ovals on top. To make the eyes look more alive, stick two very small white balls on the black pupils to look like glares of light.10. Make two circles from flesh-colored clay (or light brown) and two similar circles from brown clay. Stick the flesh-colored circles on top of the brown ones.11. Use a stack of pencils to draw small indentations on the flesh side of the ears to make them look like real ears.12. Attach the ear to the head on the side of the muzzle and smooth it with a stack. Stick the second ear on in the same way.13. To make the palms and feet, form 4 ovals of the appropriate size from the flesh-colored clay and flatten them. Use a needle or a stack to make indentations on the edges of the ovals, it will look like fingers.14.Roll two brown sausages and place them so that their ends slightly overlap the palms. Stick the ends of the sausages to the palms and smooth out the transition from brown to flesh-colored with a stack.15. Make two small brown ovals and attach them to the lower part of the body on the sides; these will be the hind legs.16. Glue the feet to the paws. Then attach the upper paws.17. Use a needle to make a hole in the lower part of the head. Make the same hole in the upper end of the body. Insert a piece of stiff wire or a thin toothpick into this hole.18. Then pin the head on top of the body. If the monkey on the photo frame is going to sit sideways, turn the head to the side.19. Rub a small piece of pink pastel and use a brush to apply it to the monkey's cheeks.20.Use a needle to draw fur on the brown parts of the monkey's body. You don't need to work on the back of the monkey's back and head, since the monkey will be glued later, and its back will not be visible.21. It remains to make the tail. Roll it out of brown clay in the form of a thin sausage. Make wool on it like a needle.22. Glue the tail to the monkey and try it on the frame, twist the tail so that it lies nicely on the frame and fits close to it.23. Next you need to make some tangerines.One of them will be in the monkey's hands, and the rest - on the frame itself. Roll orange clay into balls about 1 cm in diameter (determine the size of the tangerines based on the size of your monkey and frame). Press the ball on all sides with a sponge so that its surface becomes a little rough. And process all the other balls in the same way.24. Use a stack to make indentations in the balls for the green tails.25. Place very small pieces of green clay into the depressions and press down with a needle or stack.26. From light green clay, mold a couple of small leaves and use a needle to make veins on them.27. Glue the leaves to one of the tangerines.28. Place the tangerine with leaves in the monkey’s palms and press it against them so that the tangerine sticks well.29. Now you need to mold several bananas. For them, make short sausages from yellow plasticine, make their ends narrower. Lightly press the sausages with a flat tool to the work surface.30. Bend the sausages into an arc shape.31. Take a little powdered light green pastel on a dry brush and paint the ends of the bananas with it.32. Roll thin and long sausages from light green plastic, these will be vines. Place them on the frame on top or on the side so that they look beautiful.33. Make small leaves for the vines. You can make veins on them with a needle (like on the tangerine leaves) or with a special mold.34. Using a needle, carefully attach the leaves to the vines.35. Form a strip of green clay.The strip should be large enough to fit on the bottom of the grass frame. Use a needle to make many vertical grooves on the strip.36. Place the strip on the bottom of the frame. Place the monkey in the corner. Now the frame with the decor and fruits needs to be baked.*Please note that baking a woodenYou can only bake the frame if it does not have any parts that can melt in the oven! Otherwise, you need to bake all the decorative elements without the frame. 37. After baking, remove the decor from the frame. If necessary, paint the frame with acrylic paint in the desired color. Then glue the grass, monkey, liana and fruit to the frame with strong quick-drying or epoxy glue.38. You can additionally decorate the frame with beautiful beads or stones.This is the funny and cheerful photo frame I got.

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