Bronze Metal Clay Weekend Workshop

Play Date - UFO's

 What is a UFO you might ask? 

 The bane of the artist/crafter's existence - the UnFinishedObject!  

We decided to forgo our typical NEW IDEA for our monthly play date - instead to each work on our own halfway done projects

 I did some fabulous paper painting collage projects back in the fall you can read about HERE.  I started these birds but never finished them.  i had painted the birds and background roughly and did some collage for the branches with text in different fonts and colours.

 So at the play date i started to collage the birds themselves - starting with yellow shades for the bellies.

 Then onto dark blues for the birds and lighter blues for the sky.

Just kept adding paper to the sky and the sides of the thick canvases.

 I worked back and forth on the two canvases.  Three birds on one and two on the other.

 Pretty much done....?

NO!  how about some leaves!

I think they could use some paint to soften the sky and to make the birds more distinct from the background.  Yikes - yet another unfinished project!

 My friend Z had missed the paper painting play date, so was anxious to try it.  So TECHNICALLY her project was not something unfinished, but we are not sticklers  for details.  She purchased a cool looking denim covered canvas at Michaels to use as a base for this cow collage.  You can see her inspiration photo on the left.  She painted the cow with white paint - i think it looks  awesome just like that!

 Next she started adding colour with collage elements - 

like these ears made from fizzy juice can labels.

 She added some lacy blue paper and a purple nose - 

this is going to turn out great!

 D worked on this bird with doll head she started last month.

 she smoothed the paper clay and painted it with white paint/gesso.  

what a cool idea - a deconstructed badminton bird makes a fun little tail!

 The hole in the head is to accept the headress befitting this bird - an egg beater!

In between paint drying D worked on this other  piece.  A dolls torso,on a candle stick base, with a tin butterfly for wings, golf tees for a headdress, and keys and upholstery tacks for a skirt.  Can't wait to see her once the glue dries, and the tape is removed, and she is painted and ready for her debut.

Well.  we had fun.  but we didn't exactly get anything finished, did  we?

Play Date Clay and Beads

Another play date with my gal pals to work on our beaded clay projects.  i brought this porcelain doll head with no specific plan - and it morphed into a dress form style shape. I used tin foil as a base and covered it with paper clay. I added some jewelry bits to create a tiara.  then added cheap post earrings around her bodice. 

 I filled in with strings of pearls.  Around her waist is a ribbon with beaded fringe and more jewelry findings and strung beads along the "hem".  I have her sitting in a sunny window to dry before i complete the beading.

Our hostess D worked on her bird with doll head, using some paper mache clay she mixed herself.  

it was pretty sticky - but she was able to smooth it out.  ultimately it will be covered with beads and other objects, in a steam punk style.

Z worked on a cute wooden fish she picked up on vacation in Mexico.  

She added glass bead gel as a base to inbed rows of rhinestones in clear and aqua blue.

S worked on her turtle.  First performing a turtle-head-ectomy and replacing it with a doll head.  then she started gluing on the beautiful gems and beads.  

She even creating a fringe effect with chain around the rim of her shell.