Rat and rat

I'm not those who plan every photo story or try to get everything to look always as believable as possible. Here's one photo stack to show what I mean... Or do you think that there's a) horse sized rats or b) rat dudes who are small as 1:1 rats?

It has nothing to do with horses, really.

Rats are curous little animals, and, you know, domestic ones are yet more curious and do not fear so easily. So no one was really scared when one of my dolls, Viiskytkin, met my already quite old paperclay sculpture Mokkis.


First, we have some size comparison photos. Mokkis is realistic in scale, I think... I have never met female rats (unbelievable, I have had and met only males). Viiskytkin is a bit taller than male Breyer dolls. 

Then began the story... Accidentally. Because guess who got curious to check what moves in the huge rat's head.

Viiskytkin: "Yea, come here, girl!"

He stepped on... Giggled alone as Mokkis seems not to care about anything...

Then he made a quick move and evil laugh. Mokkis ignored again.

Until he wonders: "What the, where did she go?!"

You never know about animals. As more you know, as better it is, but you never know it wholly. And that's not a bad thingy - when you make sure what you do, how and that you are not a bad thingy, they trust more and can allow things to happen without going away like Mokkis did.


Artistic info:
Viiskytkin is wholly made by me at home... I think this was needless to say. Or then I explain that those photos got taken before I cut his vest's neck... To make it better to see and handle.

But Mokkis is new in this blog. She's 1:1 scale paperclay rat I sculpted at school so she is a schoolwork. Painted with acrylics there, at home I varnished her eyes to gloss naturally. Because paperclay is what it is, it doesn't work as many other clays could. That explains her lying position, rough surface, less details and no recognizable toes and fingers in paws. I have later started to like paperclay, too, as it's OK for larger sculpts, but haven't done that at home.

Her color is some kind of chocolate or cinnamon with a hooded pattern. There's also downunder markings under her belly, really. Everything is mismarked, of course, I like non-perfect animals.