Texture time

This is really an addition to Studio Saturday but I feel it is momentous enough to have its own post!

This happy fellows are some more texture plates.

From left to right, top to bottom we have....

1. Plate made from watch gears impressed in clay
2. Wing charm impressed in clay
3. Tissue blade and embossing tip
4. Two police buttons
5. Military button
6. Military button
7. Ornate door pull

 ...and these chappies made brilliant stuff :)

Annoying piece of 'mud clay' but never mind, the pattern is delightful.

How pretty is that? I am dissapointed the teeth of the gears are not more pronounced but there is something for subtlety.

I am going to make more of these 'metal' and 'industrial' styled texture plates ready for a series of sculptures I am going to do later this year.

Thats all for now folks :D

Purky loving

xx

It is Saturday yet again, fancy a button?

Yoho folks, another odd day in a series of bizare yet mundane weeks.

However, my weekly polymer clay fix is continuing. This is somewhat conducive to my happiness considering I am a professional artist!

I wanted to have another bash at the fractured leaf technique I botched up last week and in doing so I discovered something new!

Exhibit A : A glass baking sheet with some buttons, a bead, a repaired texture plate and a bizzare mobius inspired form.....

Exhibit B: happy button closeups, these are much more satisfying to me than last week's :) Fractured metal leaf tinted with alcohol ink and one textured button.

Now Exhibit C: Features the strange mobius shape. I was forming a round pendant with bevelled edges and decided it was too large so I used a cutter to remove the middle (I ended up discarding it anyway, sigh). I was left with this bizzare ribbon of clay and couldn't stop myself pinching it together and voila!

Ahh serendipity...


With the addition of some trusty waxed cotton cording we have this beauty :) It needs a proper thickness of leather methinks or perhaps suede but it has already survived the 'Clumsy Harry' test of being dropped down the stairs.....I have high hopes for this one.

Saturday Morning Studio Time!

Hola folks!

You cannot be a glass cannon of artistic ego without actually doing something artistic or creative, otherwise you would simply be a....Glass? Anyway, I bullied myself into the studio this morning despite staying up until 2am watching Comic Relief.


I photographed some bits I have been toying with such as these ginormous buttons.....

Which I am pretty unhappy with to be honest. I messed up the kato liquid glazing and managed to burn the pretty white one with my heat gun. I also mis-spaced the holes on the green one and didn't crackle the gold one enough! In future I will also space the holes on the red style one in a more 'designed' pattern. I was sort of going for a 'shotgun blast' look but not too impressed.

However, lets have a mini tutorial type thing to gloss over some of my flaws :)

Take some scrap clay.....

Abuse it with your Pasta machine until you have a lovely muddy colour and gather a selection of textured implements.....

I personally roll the clay into a sheet of setting number 1 thickness and then fold it over to make a nice thick pad. I also mix it into mud colour so I can see what textures are showing through without the complication of pretty marbled colours...

Dent, I mean texture the clay to produce an interesting sheet. These plate are being made specifically for cufflinks so the majority of the patterns are relatively masculine. Straight lines, rivets etc.

Oh look! Its those pesky buttons again. The bottom plate was made using a large screw and the top one is a cast metal button I found on the floor.

I got into the idea of carving out a sort of flowing leafy wave type pattern but the fimo soft kept 'bobbling' and so I dug out some.....dun de de de dun da daaaa!!!!

Manky old sculpey! which takes texture much more effectively and I should have thought of first.

And so here are out plates. The wonky metal plate, the found button plate, the screw plate, the leafy wave plate and the random plate.

These fellas are baking in my clay oven and I will post what happens with them another time :)

I am off to visit my Mother in hospital later and with any luck may get back in the garden this week.

Much Purky loving and stuff

H