Putting It All Together

The last few weeks, I’ve been re-exploring polymer clay and various surface design techniques.  Prior to beginning my self-directed discoveries, I made a list of surface design techniques I wanted to explore.  Adding texture using various tools before applying acrylic and Lumiere metallic paint is my favorite.

The elements on the right and left are from the decorated sheet detailed in my last post, Pulled Pork and Polymer Clay, dated July 31, 2015.

I decided to decorate the surface of beads by applying elements from the various decorated sheets. You may ask, “Why do you like this particular technique?”  I like working with metallic decorated sheets because the metal adds a specular reflection (like having little pieces of mirror on the surface) quality to the surface of the polymer clay.  I find the dimensionality visually interesting, which emphasizes my free form approach.