Finished Plague Victims and Dead Bodies

Hi! I have finally completed my bodies and dead people! Here are pics:



To make my linen wrapped body look dirty and gross, I used dry (not oil) artists pastels. I scribbled with the brown pastel on a piece of paper and mixed it with an teeny tiny bit of water. I then used my finger to spread the pastel over the body in smudges.




Here is a picture of my finished dead cart with the bodies. I stained the dead cart a darker color, used a thin black wash over it, and then scored it with the blunt end of a craft knife, to make it look like there are many planks nailed together to built the cart. I also used a super fine tipped black sharpie marker to dot little nail holes.




Here are pictures of my finish living, or freshly deceased, plague victims. I used blue and black pastels mixed with water to give my people a blueish black tinge. The lady in green is gonna have a head covering and be a dead body, because she has plastic hair, which I don't like.



As you can see,  all my dead people are looking a lot more realistic and dead. Here's one more picture of a new creation:



This is a tiny jar of leeches for my plague hospital. To make it, I first used black clay and made some leeches mirroring those I found in pictures. My favorite leech picture that I mirrored my tiny ones on is below. After I baked my leeches, I used a hardening clear liquid, like scenic water. I melted this with a makeshift double boiler and poured it in my jar in layers, putting in the leeches a few at a time. I put in my cork and I was done! I'm going to cover the cork with a brown linen, but other then that, I'm finished!



So, as you can see I'm really progressing fast. I'll be posting pics of my medieval food dollhouse soon. I've mostly glued it together, so hopefully (cross you fingers for me) it will be done by the end of the week.

Bye!