How to Make the Tail in a Lizard Wire Sculpture

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"DEB HUGLIN VOGEL: Hi, I'm Debbie "The Roboteer," and I'm here making a wire sculpture with Expert Village. This happens to be a technique I learned from Sandy Calder. And so far we've got the head and eyes and now all four arms and legs, and we're going to make the tail. Now, lizards have really nice tails. Some of 'em, if it was like a newt or something, it might have a shorter one. But we're going to give it a tail this long and we're going to just squish the tip a little bit, and then we're going to twist the body and hold the wire. And you could see that it's not very strong like this. But once you start twisting this, it's really going to start getting stronger. And it's just giving you the idea of being a lizard body and a lizard tail. You don't really have to make it look real, unless of course you want to and then you can sit and do that for hours. But I like to have it be according to your imagination. And I like that inside line to be real straight so that you can see that that's the inside of the tail. And then you want to come up and then you just wrap it right above where the legs are and make sure it's going to hold its place. I think I'll wrap it around the leg one time. There's the tail."