Monday, June 21, 2010

T-Rex Tooth Fosil

To make a T-Rex Tooth Fossil, I went online and search
and realized that there are lots of different sizes and shapes.
I decided to pick one, and to make one I bought paints, clay,
brushes, a thing to hang my fossil, aluminum paper, wire, and
a crystal glaze.
I've started to change the shape so that the holder can
look better and hold better on the fossil.

I used wire to wrap up and form a T-Rex Tooth shape.



Then I put aluminum paper and wrap on top of the wire
to create different thickness and to make it solid.

After forming the size and everything, I used clay
to wrap it on top again. In order to make these clay
solid, I made it very light and stick it on the fossil piece
by piece, then I put it on the oven up to 15 minutes with a
200 degree. However, I realized that this is not the clay
that can be heat in the oven forever, 15 minutes will be the
max and I need to check every 2 minutes.
But before putting the fossil in the oven, I used different kinds
of tools to form the details.


After heating the fossil, I use brushes to put on
different colors so that it will look like a real fossil.
Once it's dry, I used the crystal glaze and spray it around.
The fossil was finally over, it took a bit of time to put
all slices up into one piece. FUN!

In this photo, which also means that this fossil is finally done.

This is the final part of the T-Rex Tooth Fossil project
- Typrography