Your Brain

Your brain............ Your brain on polymer.

Wallpaper Necklace #2

Faux tooled leather. After making a mold (far right) of the wallpaper (center), I used the scrap clay on the left to press into the mold, ran a tracing wheel around it, poked the hanging holes in it, then I baked it. After it cooled, I antiqued it with acrylic paints and baked again. I added feathers, jump rings and a leather cord. It was fun.

Wallpaper Necklace #1

Textures made by the two wallpaper molds below. I put scrap polymer clay through the pasta machine until it was gray and used it as the base. Rolled out a sheet of the gray clay, laid Wallpaper Pattern A mold on the bottom and Wallpaper Pattern B mold on the top and gently pressed them into the raw clay. I used Pearl Ex Antique Copper to lightly highlight the pattern on both sides and then I cut out three sizes of circles. Poked a hole and baked them. Attached the copper jump rings and strung them on a coppery chain I purchased at Michael's. Wallpaper Pattern A above and Wallpaper Pattern B below Yeah, I'm baaaack and feelin good. Finally. On with the experiments.

Sick Day

Kind of says it all.

Tooled Leather Mold

Nope, still not feeling good, but got this done. This has a nice tooled leather look to it. I like it a lot. I had a big sheet of this wallpaper, but only have a couple pieces left so I am glad I made an impression of it. That's all I got today.

Moldy Wallpaper

I'm a little under the weather and hoping by tomorrow this bug will be gone. I'm not feeling so hot (ha, Arizona joke). I use different two part silicone putty mixtures, but this one is reasonable and seems to last a long time. The most important thing to remember is to let it sit 5 to 10 minutes after you apply it to your object. All my wallpapers reacted differently to the putty. The "raw" papers I lightly sprayed with a sealant and let dry. Then I sprayed them with some mold release. I learned this after not being able to remove the putty from the paper below. You can see my nail marks on the side of the yellow mold where I was prying it away from the paper. It made a nice mold and I will take this a step further tomorrow (hopefully).

Toy Car Bracelet

Oh, the best laid plans. You'll have to hang in there one more day. I ran into a slight hiccup yesterday and consequently couldn't post the paper experiment. So, in the meantime, enjoy this sweet little toy car bracelet. The little metal cars are simply strung on some elastic with wooden beads.

Natural Fibers

The last of the great collage papers I'm going to experiment with. Hopefully I will have something to show for all this tomorrow (besides a huge mess).

Textured Wallpaper, Etc.

Supaglypta and Anaglypta are highly textured and/or deeply embossed wallpapers. I use various wallpapers in my collages occasionally, but usually use handmade papers......... or natural fibers, such as the ones below. I purchase them from whatever source I like at the time, but I particularly like the companies, Handmade Paper (click HERE) and Collage Art (click HERE). Yes, you know where this is going. Tomorrow a couple more collage papers and then.....to the laboratory for some experiments.

Tie One On

My interpretation of Ileen Shefferman's Tie from Leslie Dierks' book, "Creative Clay Jewelry" (1994). Click on either photo for a close up of the "scorched metal" texture.