Water Lilies Bracelets

Art Bead Scene Studio - March Challenge

polymer clay beads made with my own sculpted textures and then painted with acrylic 

polymer buttons for clasps

translucent and white polymer canes for faux batik 

faux batik back of bracelet #1

bracelet #2

bracelet #2

bracelet #3

bracelet #3 side view

bracelet #3 closure

bracelet #3

bracelet #4 closure

bracelet #4

Challenge jaune et turquoise

It is summer and so wonderful to have time to create!  My friends at Creation Fimo have been working on a color challenge.  We had to work with only two colors, yellow and turquoise.  Here I will share with you my process

 Layered, impressed and shaved

Shavings flipped

 

Shaped from artist's cutter

Curing clay "frames"  

    

Texture Maison

 My friends at Creations Fimo and one of my favorite blogs, the Art Bead Scene, have proposed challenges that piqued my interest this month. At CF the challenge was to make our own textures in  polymer clay.  Please come see all our creations on Parole de pâte here.  At the Art Beads Scene blog the challenge was to make art beads using Marc Chagall's America Windows as our inspiration.

My favorite way to make textures is by using wax.  I melt paraffin wax in a shallow wooden box, let it cool and harden, and then carve out the texture I desire.  If I like the design I can keep it forever by using the wax as a mold to make a cast and another mold in polymer clay.   Of course, if I don't like my design I can always grab my heat gun and erase it in a matter of seconds.
Here are some of the results of my participation in these challenges:

Round and Round We go

Today on Parole de pâte you will find a collection of creations in polymer with one common motif, the circle.  Our group, CréationFimo, has been busy creating and today is the day to share the fruits of our labor with everyone.  You will want to see the many unique interpretations on this theme.  My own contribution is a neckpiece.

I enjoyed texturing and highlighting each of the circles with metallic acrylic paints. I was inspired by colors found in rusted metal as in this photo: 

Art Bead Scene June Challenge

This month at the Art Bead Scene the artwork of John Louis Rhead has been chosen as inspiration for bead makers and jewelry designers.

The New York Public Library

I chose a polymer and wire pendant that I made several months ago since it seemed to have all the colors I needed for this challenge. 
I then picked some lovely glass beads made by Chic Elbert. Her beads are the six disk-shaped beads.  They have a beautiful iridescent glow with warm blue, yellow and orange glass that shines through from beneath.

I feel that Chic's beads give my piece just the right sparkle, don't you agree?

  

Challenge de couleurs - le bleu et le rose

Maryy has proposed a challenge for us at CréationFimo. We were to use only pink and blue to create something new.

http://yoopa.ca/famille/parents/parents-de-jumeaux-experience-partagee 

You can see the results of her challenge on Parole de Pâte today.  

I started  with a transfer of a photo I had taken  of some daisies I in my my garden...

I turned it into black and white and made a transfer on clay with t-shirt transfer paper, and then I used ink to tint the flowers pink and blue.

Well, I went along my merry way coloring and scraping and coloring with ink as I focused on not making any purple.  Oops, I made white instead.  I had forgotten that white was as bad as purple!

So I tried again...

I used the same process except that I didn't scrape all the way down to the clay and made certain to avoid white.  Some of the color is actually made with metalic acrylic paints.