Sculpting Blue Dragon Sea Slug ( Glaucus atlanticus ) using polymer clay Life of Clay

Glaucus atlanticus - have many common names include
• Blue sea dragon
• Sea swallow
• Blue angel
• Blue glaucus
• Dragon slug
• Blue dragon
• Blue sea slug and
• Blue ocean slug
Is a species of small, blue sea slug, a pelagic aeolid nudibranch, a shell-less gastropod mollusk in the family glaucidae.

Pelagic, meaning they live in the open ocean, they float upside down by using the surface tension of the water to stay up, and carried along by the wind or the ocean currents.

It makes use of countershading:
blue side of their body (ventral ) faces upwards, blends in with the blue water.
Silvery grey side (dorsal ) facing downwards, blending in with the sunlight reflecting on the water surface when viewed facing upwards underwater.

Glaucus atlanticus feeds on other poisonous pelagic creatures like portugese man o’war.
They are known for their ability to stores stinging nematocysts from the siphon-nophores within its own tissue as defence against predator.
So holding this blue dragon and other sea slugs is potentially dangerous.

It can be up to 3 cm or 1.2 inches in length, and can live up to a year under the right conditions.
It has a flat, tapering body and six appendages that branch out into rayed, finger-like cerata.
These cerata, also known as papillae, extends laterally from 3 dif pairs of peduncles. They also use these to slow swimming movements.
The radula of this species or the tongue like organ bears serrated teeth, to which, paired with a strong jaw and denticles allows it to grasp and chip down parts of its prey.
It occurs in throughout the world’s ocean, in temperate and tropical waters.

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These are the Materials I used:
For the armature
• 1mm Stainless steel wire
• 0.8mm bronze wire
• 2 parts epoxy
• Cotton string
• Aluminium foil
• Super glue
• PVA glue
• Tissue paper

Sculpting
• Sculpey premo white

PAINTS USED (Folkart acrylics):
For the Base color
 Titanium white
 Pearl white

For the Blue patterns
 Real blue
 Acrylic medium

For the silvery grey body
 Titanium white
 Pearl white
 Sterling silver
 Real blue

Other colors
 Blue Mica powder
 Acrylic medium

VARNISHES and Resin:
DECOART Water based Polyurethane Varnish of
 Gloss varnish
***You can also use other types and Brands of water based varnish
Like, Decoart Americana; Varathane; Davies/ Boysen clear emulsion

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