metal water bottle translucent background

I’ve purchased two of her tutorials to try out this winter. Ginger Davis Allman has a wealth of information, especially about translucent clays, on her blog Blue Bottle Tree. Information from Pinterest, blogs and FB have inspired me and led me in new directions. The clay becomes even more translucent when it is cooled, straight out of the oven, in ice water. And, I’m never quite sure how they will come out because the Pardo clay is pretty opaque before it is cured. I’m usually in such a hurry for instant gratification that I haven’t bothered to record what amounts and colors of inks I’ve used to get the finished leaf color. Presently I’m making components from translucent Pardo clay tinted with alcohol ink. I’m looking forward to spending whole days or weeks pushing my own polymer boundaries this winter. Besides, I had a ton of beads already made if I needed them.Ĭurrently,the amazing things people are doing with polymer clay has drawn me back to this medium. When Precious Metal Clay was introduced in the mid 1990’s I would abandon the polymer clay for many years. And they were a whole lot of fun to make. They were simple slices of canes, drilled after curing, but they were beads I made, in colors I wanted. How in the world did they make such tiny patterns on such tiny beads? Nan Roche’s book, The New Clay, opened up a whole new world to me and I was off and running making my own beads. I put the Fimo away for 10 years or so as I was concentrating on working with silver and mothering two babies.įast forward to the early 90’s when I started seeing some incredibly intricate patterns on beads made with Fimo. It never occurred to me to mix the Fimo colors and make my own beads. I was only just getting started in making simple earrings with sheet silver and a jeweler’s saw. I sculpted little lobsterman Christmas tree ornaments for my family and friends and baked them up in my oven. My personal discovery of polymer clay goes back to the late ’70’s when I picked up a few packages at the Kimball Shop in Northeast Harbor. More about the metals in a following post.

I’ve made a few mistakes and learned some new things in the last two weeks and I’m ready to tell all. I make many of my own components for necklaces, earrings, and bracelets so there is a lot to be done before I actually sit down and put these components together. For me this means: Get out the clay! No, not ceramic clay, but polymer clay, fine silver clay and the base metal clays of copper and bronze. I’m getting ready for my last show of the year in Bar Harbor, Maine on Dec.

Metal water bottle translucent background