The recipe I used was pretty much 1 cup flour, 1 cup salt, 1/2 cup water, but I mucked around with it a little bit after that because I needed to add more water to get it to all mix, but then I added more flour because it was too wet. The goddesses did a lot of drying overnight on their own, but I also gave them a quick turn in the microwave and a while in the oven. It was all guesswork, so I can say exactly how long--but I know the oven temperature was 250 F, and that eventually got them exactly where I wanted them to be.
Somewhere I read that you could just zap them in the microwave for 3 minutes and it would be fine, but I put a scrap in the microwave for 1 minute to test and it turned black and my microwave still smells awful, so I don't recommend that, but a LITTLE time in the microwave carefully watched sure speeds up the drying process.
Also I noticed that the drying done via microwave or oven came out real smooth and nice whereas the air-drying came out very grainy--I prefer the oven/mw method for the final effect, but it's down to personal preference, really.
NOW PICTURES!!
Hel--Norse queen of Helheim/Niflheim, queen of the dead (or some of them, anyway)
Billow Maiden--one of the nine daughters of Ægir and Rán, mothers of Heimdall, goddesses of the waves and brewers of beer
Nut--Egyptian Sky Goddess
Maat--Egyptian goddess of truth, balance, and order
After they dried, I painted them with gouache and acrylic paints, decorated Maat and Nut with glitter, rhinestones, and feathers as necessary, and sprayed them with polyurethane (clear gloss) to seal them. I could have left them unsprayed for a more natural look, but I sprayed Nut to attach the glitter and decided I liked them all better like this.
Merry meet!
Vervain
