Today i had the pleasure of reconnecting with my old altered book workshop buddies in San Francisco. We used to meet monthly, swap books and do a project or learn a new technique. Today they were creating "antique amulets" based on class one of them took at Art Unraveled with polymer clay wiz Laurie Mika.
I have only used polymer clay once before - so it was fun to learn something new!
This was my first pendant. I softened the black clay and rolled it to about 3/8th of an inch thick. I stamped it with a gothic texture stamp and created a niche with the frame. I added an image and some metal findings. then it was baked for about 20 minutes in a toaster oven. When it came out i added some metallic glazes and gold paint to highlight the raised areas.
This was my last piece - you can see i had a little whtite clay left which i swirled with black to create this border.
Here are the original inspiration! These were the samples created by Laurie Mika - not by me! But i think i did a pretty good job emulating her style.
