Dragons – Bradbery Adventures

Dragon Fly

Robin Bradbery — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 21:01:29 +0000

Made from a resin cast with cicada wings attached and colored with pastels.

Bugger

Robin Bradbery — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:08:00 +0000

A few years after I finished the hatchling dragon “Boy Blue” I discovered Windstone Dragons. I was inspired to try and put scales on one of my casts. Since I was essentially carving scales into a hard resin cast the process was not an easy one. And so this version earned the name Bugger. Because forming all those tiny scales and details was a bugger to do.

The original “Boy Blue”

After a many hours scales are starting to spread.

The eye is still just a bit of paint on the original eye.

The eye is drilled out to accept a custom glass eye by Tohickon. Also the cheek is bulked up and detail added as well as extending the tail to accept a tail fan.

More scales

The tail is scaled

Working on the wing fingers.

All done.

He is a tiny little guy.

After some on-line research, and a bit of trial and error, I learned to make a mold. Now many more Buggers can be made. I’m not sure if that is a good thing. Having all those little dragons around is bound to lead to trouble. Not to mention nipped fingers and singed hair!

Now the fun part. Adding color. The possibilities are endless.

Salt Water Gobi

Sumatran Tiger

Fresh water Discus

Seal Point Siamese

Okapi

Buckskin

Siberian Husky

Phoenix

Another Seal Point Siamese

Sun Conure

Stained Glass Dragon

Robin Bradbery — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:59:00 +0000

This piece graces our game room. It is also the cover art for my published e-book DRAM (available on Amazon). It took many hours to create this piece and lots of patience. I don’t think I will try to tackle anything like this again.

Boy Blue

Robin Bradbery — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:13:00 +0000

I had so much fun making Flitatious I wanted to do another sculpture. This time I wanted a smaller dragon I could cuddle. Maybe something I could hold in my hand. When picturing what I wanted in my head it always came out blue so I named this one Boy Blue.

While this sculpture is rough it does become the foundation of my very popular sculpture “Bugger”.

Flitatious

Robin Bradbery — Mon, 08 Jun 1998 17:58:00 +0000

Many years ago I made my first polymer clay sculpture. I was inspired by the descriptions of Anne McCaffrey’s little fire lizards and wanted to try my hand at bringing one to life. Since I already had a Breyer horse “sculpt-your-own” kit I wasn’t using I decided to re-purpose it. It took several months and lots of trial and error but my first dragon took to wing.