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Well, I decided to use the sheet of sculpey III translucent I made in the tutorial from day 20 to make a mokume gane slabusing some Pearlescent Liquid Acrylics.
It came out very nice.
I thought….hmmmm that would make a great scarf for a new mask. But I didn’t remember my own lesson and even though I used Kato Polyclay as the backing for the scarf, I didn’t cover the top with wax paper. I was spared the agony of swearing s I cleaned clay out of the rollers…but the clay did stick and the pattern dragged. So it’s not longer mokume gane. It is however a pretty marbled pattern. Miss Thang is in the oven baking right now. Once she’s sanded and sealed, I think it will still be a nice piece.
Duh…I seem to be having problems all around this morning. Ok now the pics should be there. Going back to bed.
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Joann’s has Studio by Sculpey on sale for 25% off…still a bit high in my book. But I decided to pick up a few packs and give the new clay a try. I am impressed with it. When I first felt the packs, they felt kinda mushy and I thought the clay would almost turn to liquid in my warm hands….but surprise it didn’t. Rolled it through the #8 setting on my pasta machine and no sticking at all. The mg turned out well, however, I am a translucent girl and I’m kinda disappointed that she didn’t include any.
I’m not sure of the durability yet. I’ll have to make mask and see how it holds up.
Mokume Gane Slab
Slices from the slab
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Well in between remaking some ATC I sent out in a swap, but have disappeared into the black hole of our postal system. I played with covering wood with polymer clay. Ugh. The flat piece wasn’t so bad, but the round one was awful. After fighting with getting all the bubbles out and managing to bake it…with out bubbles re-appearing, it dawned on me, that I’d tried covering a wood frame and baking it…and that I swore I would never try to bake clay on the wood ever again. Well this time I’m serious…what a hassle. Way too much work for hit-or-miss results.
This is covered with scraps of an old mokume gane I made a while ago. Just finally got around to actually covering it. I actually bought the wood piece to go with this mask: http://www.flickr.com/photos/crafty_dez/1547330249/in/set-72157600237086589/
This piece looking like planet earth was not planned, but what a great surprise it turned out to be. It’s a small world after all….
Well gotta sign out. We have pretty bad thunderstorms and tornadoes rolling into Middle Tennessee.
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I made a sweet mokume gane using Liquid Acrylic ink and Jones Tones Foils with the Polymer clay. This was the first time I’ve used the foils. During the stacking process I realized I’d flipped one of the foils upside down. I was like “Oh crap. I just screwed this slab up.” But then when I stared slicing, I loved the the two toned metallic contrast. I made several beads and a couple of book marks.
Since I was experimenting, I only made a small slab. But I’m planning to make a bigger one for a new mask in the next month or so.
