Playing with Clay My kids have been making fun of me for years for saving those colored mesh bags made of plastic... you know, the ones that held onions, garlic, cherry tomatoes or other fresh veggies..... I knew if I held on to them long enough a use would turn up.... sure enough, I started playing with clay and needed something for snake skin. Ah Ha, I thought.... and dug out my stash of bags. Click on the photos for a closer look. Here are sample textures that I made with the bags. Close up of the diamond samples Close up of the oval samples Different textures can be made with the same piece of bag.... either scrunch it up a bit or stretch it out. I conditioned the clay and ran it though the #1 setting on the pasta machine. Gently remove the mesh to reveal the pattern. Stretch the mesh to get a whole new look. Two patterns from the white mesh bag.... one design is a little larger. Go for a whole new look by using several layers of the mesh bag.... like this. here's how it looks after removing the mesh
Electra B. FiMoSaïque - Hélène KLYM Camille Young | polymer clay and cast resin art | Page 3 8″x10″ oils and acrylic. I rarely get the chance to do a painting, but I really enjoy it. Continue reading Venus fly trap pin. 2.5″ x 3″ Sculpey SuperFlex 30 day art challenge complete. monster bracelet. Deer pin from Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. Available now in my online store! antique brooch: premo, beads, pearls, metallic powders, metallic leaf, wire. 2″ Wind Fish pin. premo, kato liquid polyclay, oil paints, 2″ across Purple flower hairclip 2.5″, available now in my online store. A cat-owl pin. fairy tale pin 2.5″ long, available now in my online store Inspired by an illustration by Alice and Martin Provensen.
The Polymer Arts Blog Over the next several weeks I will be all over the place–traveling, teaching, entertaining foreign (polymer) dignitaries, readying the family home for sale, and making the final move for the business at the end of it all, I needed to pull a few things off my plate during this period. Not doing the blog was an option but I didn’t want to leave you without your regular creative shot in the arm so I am, instead, scheduling out a series of posts that were originally on my Facebook page back before the blog was born. That is actually where the blog started but most of you will never have seen them so I thought this was a good opportunity to share some of the most popular posts from back then while I take care of things in my present day world. Okay, onto the pretties. Here was my post from February 28, 2012: Sometimes you just want something simple … here is a black & white pendant from Veronica Jeong. Like this blog? Like this: Like Loading...
DIY Garden Markers This year I’m planting my herbs in the sunniest corner of our yard, so hopefully they won’t turn yellow and die again. Third time’s the charm, right? I don’t really need herb markers (I mean, it’s pretty easily to tell the difference between basil and rosemary), but they are so darn cute that I decided to make myself a set with my old stash of polymer clay and rubber stamps. This is what you need to make your own: oven bake-able polymer clay rolled into 1.25″ balls (one ball for each marker) appropriate baking dish (according to package instructions) a rolling pin a butter knife rubber letter stamps an oven Roll each clay ball into a coil about 5.5″ long. Use the dull side of your knife to trim one end into a point (the dull side won’t leave behind serrated marks), and shape the edges of each marker with the flat side of your knife. Stamp your garden markers, and bake them according to the clay package instructions.