PCAGOE Challenge

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Still doing red, black, white →

February 10, 2011

PCAGOE Challenge

So here’s the link:

http://pcagoechallenge.blogspot.com/

for voting on the Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy current challenge. Today is the last day, so get out there and vote!! (PS – My entry is the Butterfly Goddess – hint, hint.)

Got all the clay conditioned for Cabin Fever Clay Festival, at last. Now I’ve got a week to find all the other gadgets (oops – tools) called for by the various instructors. I’ve got most of the things somewhere, but figuring out where that somewhere is is the difficulty. My ‘studio’ may well be totally rearranged before this is over.

And I still have a ton of the black – white – red makume gane cane (more like a blob than a cane in the case of makume gane). Guess I got somewhat carried away when I finally located the article with directions for this cane. A customer had asked if I could make her a switch plate in that pattern, but in colors to match her kitchen instead of the copper, silver and black on red that I had on display. Then I came down with Bell’s Palsy (yes, last April) and everything clay stopped. Over the summer I tried other variations on black, red, white but none of them was quite it. So, needless to say, I’ve got quite a stock of switchplates – and some clocks and bookmarks – in those colors and related variations.

The top two were done over the summer, the bottom 4 (clocks on left, switch plates on the right – all just as they came out of the curing oven before sanding and buffing) used the ‘new’ cane with black clay as the base on the bottom set and a white clay base on the set above. I think the metallic clays lend themselves better to the beauty of the technique. I may try with pearl as my base clay, and also with some foil and translucent inserted into the block of mokume gane. I certainly have enough to experiment with!! And I’ve got still others that I didn’t photograph since they’re finished and downstairs with my craft fair stock.

And with the scraps – boxes and bookmarks:

And zipper pulls and whatever. I sure hope there are other people out there who like this combination of colors!! It feels like I’ve spent the entire year doing nothing else.

Still having to baby my foot, prop it up, ice and wrap it to keep swelling down, but less so each day.