In my last post I shared my latest acrylic pour painting on 45 records I found at the thrift store. I love the way the paintings turned out. The DecoArt paint I used was luscious and I thought the technique was beautiful. It needed something though so I pulled out some polymer clay and tried a few different focal pieces.
The one on the top right is a traditional swirl, left is a spikey flower and finally bottom right is a rose style focal.
I tried all of these out and finally settled on the rolled flower piece with ruffled leaf shapes. Here are a few close ups.
Everything was varnished with a satin varnish. Love the final product. I'll need to keep experimenting for more looks.
I'm also showing how I created a wire hook for the back and covered the center hole in the record.
It was fun to experiment with all of these different looks. I lvoe adding the polymer clay to the acrylic poured paintings.
I love paint! And I'm fascinated by the art of fluid acrylic pouring. This free form art allows the artist to focus on color and interesting textures and techniques. I've done a number of acrylic pouring paintings in the past and am getting back to it now. I happened on these 45 records at the thrift store. Finding these 45s brought me right back to my teenage years and was a thrill in and of itself (although in honesty, none of the 45s I found would be considered cool then or now). LOL They're a great size, though,at 7 inches.
I have some plans for these to incorporate polymer clay sculptural elements in the center. Hope I can turn what's in my head into great art.
Hi All, hope you enjoy trying out new techniques. This is a 2 part tutorial. In Part 1, you'll learn to use fluid acrylic paint and ink to create a polymer clay veneer to use in making this summery pendant. The DecoArt Media fluid acrylic I used is so luscious. In Part 2 you'll learn to make the beaded knotted necklace for a great look. Thanks for joining me in my studio to learn polymer clay and jewelry making techniques. Hope you enjoy.
Pasta Machine
Oven
Clay Blade
Jewelry Pliers - round nose and chain nose
Wire Cutter
Craft Knife
Jewelry Shape Templates - either Cool Tools or make your own with card stock or plastic
Texture Sheet
Straw - cocktail size
Knitting Needle or other needle tool if needed to help with knotting
Hand Drill - size to match bail
Baking Form - 3" glass vase
Materials
Clay - Sculpey Premo! - Bright Green Pearl and Peacock Pearl
Paint - DecoArt Media in Cadmium Orange Hue and Cobalt Teal Hue
Liquitex Ink - Gold
Krylon Pen - 18K Gold or other pen to add striping
Stringing Material - I used cotton cording; 9 ea 24" strands
Pinch Bail - 1 ea
Jump Rings - 2 ea, 6mm and 1ea 9mm, or size to fit
End Cap - 2 ea 4mm, or size to fit cords
Wire - 22 gauge, 2ea 4" pieces
Hypo Cement or other glue for necklace ends
Beads - 28 ea 6mm or size of your choice to match stringing material and clay; I used 3 colors of acrylic beads; Color A (Blue) 12 ea; Color B (Green) 8 ea; Color C (Orange) 8 ea
Genesis Medium Thick Extender or Liquid Clay
Varnish - Varathane water based varnish
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Hope you enjoy this tutorial/time lapse. Loving my new iPad Pro to create digital artwork. Join me for a quick walk through of drawing/art apps for the iPad Pro. You'll see how I used ProCreate and Leonardo to create a layered mixed media artwork of a bird in a tree.
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This pretty, vintage look polymer clay heart and key pendant is easy to make and customize. Use a skeleton key as a base to add a heart, stamped clay and patina for an unique pendant or hanging ornament.
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You will love this jewelry making project to use Target string lights to create a sweet Valentine pendant. These metal heart shapes are sturdy and easy to disassemble from the lights and then reuse the lights! Wear the pendant with just a chain or cord or add pearls, beads or other parts to embellish the pendant. Hope you enjoy.
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Materials
Target String Light Heart Shape
Beads/Pearls - 6 ea
Bead - 2 ea, 8/0
Jump Rings - 6a, 6mm
Head Pins - 7ea 2-3"
Chain or Cord - 30" or desired length
Glue
Tools
Wire Cutter
Needle Nose Pliers
Round Nose Pliers
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It's a dollar store art challenge! Learn to make a dollar store playing card necklace with art supplies from the dollar store. Join me and the artists below to see what wonderful art projects they dreamed up. This event, hosted by Shemi Dixon, has a giveaway! One person will win a $20 gift card to the Dollar Tree (US) or a $20 PayPal (International). Check out the links below for details.
Giveaway open from January 23, 2017 - January 29, 2017, winner announced on Jan 30, 2017.
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In my last post I shared my latest acrylic pour painting on 45 records I found at the thrift store. I love the way the paintings turned out. The DecoArt paint I used was luscious and I thought the technique was beautiful. It needed something though so I pulled out some polymer clay and tried a few different focal pieces.
