The Jaunty Rake

This dashing fellow sports some of the ideas I developed for my polymer clay mobiles, but here I transferred them to aluminum, my former material of choice. The two-toned pieces are more labor intensive than the single-color ones, requiring two stages of masking and painting and, inevitably, repairing runs and flakes in the earlier colors. But I think this process widens the range of shapes available. I also introduced a double spiral sitting where his mouth might be. 28 inches wide and tall.