3d Metamorphasis series

My inspiration was a queen statue. I did five sculptures that grew from a queen chess piece to a queen statue. It was hard to work with clay because i never worked with clay before... It was very annoying to wait for my sculptures to dry, they took a long time, like 2 days. The sculptures were then gessoed after being sanded down once they were dry. Then i painted them in grayscale adding a gradient yellow and a gradient purple throughout 5 sculptures. Second to the last sculpture did not demonstrate a transition so i had to repaint it to get 50% step between two other steps. The crown becomes more chromatic in contrast with yellow hair so we can see the sculptures from a distance better. At the end, i sprayed the figures with clear glaze so they would be very shiny!!!

Animation in a loop using Maquu app on the iPad because nothing else worked for me. It shows how a chess piece becomes a queen!!!!