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Polymer Clay Work in Wearable Art
| Sometimes Romantic, sometimes frivilous, Polymer Clay provides an outlet for many forms of wearable art. Photos of loved ones, faux foods, architectural compositions...the possibilities are endless! |
Date(s): December 28, 2005. Album by Mona Hair. Photos by Mona Hair. 1 - 20 of 68 Total. 6983 Visits. |
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Wow, Mona, I just love where you are taking the faux cloisonne technique. I especially like the Art Nouveau earrings. Hugs, Eugena
- Eugena Topina | www.eugenascreations.com, Fri, 1 Sep 2006 6:05AM |
I sat for about 30 minutes just starring at your pieces. Wonderful work.
- schuree, Mon, 13 Mar 2006 8:29AM |
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Mona, they're fantastic. I love the metallic look to them. Something you can get with mica, but this seems to enhance it more so. Keep up the good work.
- Georgeanne, Sun, 12 Mar 2006 7:25AM |
Hey Mona! All your items are great! You are multi-talented! But your sweets give a whole new meaning to the term "eye candy"!!! LOL
- Shannon, Sat, 4 Mar 2006 6:56PM |
Your clay-pieces never looks like newbie-work :)) Love your hearts.
- Karin, Sat, 4 Mar 2006 4:07PM |
Mona , You amaze me with your multitude of talents. I can tell you are having so much fun making these goodies. I want to eat everything on this site ! What a pleasure to view? Keep up the great work..... Love, Lisa
- Lisa Marinucci, Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:07PM |
These are spectacular - the plates add just the right touch!
- Cherilyn, Wed, 8 Feb 2006 3:49PM |
Hi I enjoyed looking at your work. Beautiful Mukume Gane Pendant. Welcome to your new addiction(Polymer clay, we all have it) LOL Lisa T/krafteame Enchanted Visions ClayArt ClayPlay Pals Yahoo List owner
- LisaT/krafteame, Sat, 14 Jan 2006 5:41PM |
I think you need to eat something. But they look fantastic and very real, especially the gouda. Now you're making me hungry!
- Georgeanne, Sat, 31 Dec 2005 6:35AM |
These are just awesome! They look good enough to eat.
- Colleen, Fri, 30 Dec 2005 8:33PM |
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Ed Rambeau Necklace
Ed Rambeau provides a huge source of entertainment at my onlive radio talkshow for and about independent jewelry designers. One of his biggest fans and a friend of ours requested a jewelry design with Ed's picture in it. This was a commissioned design and is made of polymer clay, Sterling Silver Components, a 24k vermeil star, a faceted opal glass heart pendant and the window over the picture was created with a piece of CD that was cut to size with a tin snip and embedded over the picture.
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2008 Dichroic Art Glass and Polymer Brooch #1
Polymer Clay and Dichroic Art Glass join in this design to create an abstract brooch. Sterling Silver ball tipped head pins create an extra element of surprise in this design!
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2008 Dichroic Art Glass and Polymer Brooch #2
A glass cabochon of dichroic art glass is offset in a textured polymer clay pendant!
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Faux Chocolate Heart Pins Collection
Faux Chocolate Heart pins in various sizes and several different layered compositions!
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Architectured Round Brooch Top View
Black, textured Gold Foil on Polymer, and copper irridescent acrylic inks offer a "Space Age" style composition with raised elements in several places. Round balls of Polymer support the table top. Ovals of black support the three triangles, slightly raised above the table top. One black ball of polymer sits like an impatient diner seated at the table of a very unusual restraunt. It's a Big Brooch, measuring 2 1/4 inches across and 3/8 inch deep, excluding the pin back. I still need to put the final gloss finish on the piece front and back. Also I haven't signed it yet. I'm playing with layering components for some ideas with PMC to come later! A whimsical collage that reflects my of love of space and science fiction. I imagine a table from Douglas Adams's book "Restaurant at the End of the Universe" when I look at this very different piece of work.
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Architectured Round Brooch Right View
RESERVATIONS AT MILLIWAYS, comments on Designers Block! WORKING OUTSIDE THE COMFORT ZONE
Although this piece is a very different tangent from my usual style of design work, there is a reason I am posting this one. First, polymer is good for more than making beads. By creating and curing components in advance, they can be used to construct more complex and intriguing wearable art. There are lots of books on that. The second reason is sometimes design work becomes stale and uninspired when the same themes get worked over and over again. I know that mine do! After a whole lot of designs in round and square beads, your brain gets tired of looking at the same dimensions...no matter how they are arranged. Designers Block sets in. By reaching beyond what is comfortable and exercising your head with an uncomfortable or unexplored medium, the creative process becomes infused with new energy and inspiration. This will transfer to the more familiar and comfortable areas of design work, bringin...
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Architectured Round Brooch Left View
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Architectured Round Brooch Front View
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Architectured Round Brooch Back
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Architectured Round Brooch Another View
This shows the orientation as worn
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Orchid Earrings of Blue and Purple
I have attached the worked Polymer pieces into antique style brass settings backed with filigree of similar type and suspended the orchid drops from antiqued Gold plated Pewter ear posts with 14K Gold Filled Chain. The ovals of polymer with the orchid flowers measure 1 1/4 inches by 7/8 inch not including the settings. Total length of the earrings is 3 inches. If this is to much length for you I can easily adjust the drop length! Just ask! I am including pictures of the polymer work unmounted so that you can see a different view, as the photos were taken with different amounts of light. The pigments used in the orchids has an iridescent quality and they shimmer and change as the light changes or as the earrings move. The weight of the earrings is light and very comfortable! Total length of this design is a fraction over 3 1/2 inches!
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Art Nouveau Red Orchid Earrings
I have attached the worked Polymer pieces into antique style brass settings backed with filigree of similar type and suspended the orchid drops from antiqued Gold plated Pewter ear posts with 14K Gold Filled Chain. The ovals of polymer with the orchid flowers measure 1 1/4 inches by 7/8 inch not including the settings. Total length of the earrings is 3 inches.
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Art Nouveau Orchid pieces
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Using Eugena's Art Nouveau technique I drew designs inspired by a book on growing orchids, then transfered shaped wire pieces onto the surface of precut, uncured polymer. After rolling the wire flush with the polymer, pigments were added with a tiny brush and the ovals were cured. Lastly, the surfaces were sealed with two coats of Poly-Glaze, a product of Lisa Pavelka. This is the only glaze to my knowledge that will render the desired effect for this finish.
"Mona,
I just love them! I so wan..."
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Art Nouveau Pendant
"Polymer Cafe'" Magazine did a feature on a terrific lady and a friend of mine by the name of Eugena Topina in the Winter 2005/2006 issue Vol.4 No.1. Eugena graciously shared an article on how she creates her lovely Polymer Clay Art Nouveau pieces of work. If you haven't seen this issue find it! It is very well worth the read!
This is my first attempt at using her technique process with my own orchid design. The first layer of glaze is on and two more coats of glaze will be necessary to get the glass-like finish that I want on this piece. Bails at the top will attach to a necklace and bails at the bottom will attach to drops of crystals and chains possibly. Stilling working this design in my head as I go. I really enjoyed attempting this style of design and discovered that it is not as easy as it looks. My design process is almost always purely spontaneous. This technique forced me explore possible subject matter because I certainly didn't want to copy one of Eugena'...
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Faux Malachite Deco Brooch
Inspired by Art Deco design, I utilized more of the custom created faux Malachite polymer mix here in a bevel cut log. Vintage filigree was treated with Gold Leaf then applied. Ornamentation in faux diamonds and rubies was achieved with applications of Swarovski crystal components and there is a pin clasp at back that will accommodate a necklace convertor to be included with the brooch! Width of the piece is 1 3/4 inches. Including the large jeweled drop the piece vertically measures a fraction over 2 inches. Much prettier in hand than the picture! It is hard to capture the beveled ends of the top of the brooch!
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Faux Malachite Deco Necklace
Transitional Art Deco with a hint of Egyptian Revival is stylized in Sterling Silver chain, high Silver content deco components in filigree leaves, and also in the plaquette on the front of the centerpiece. The faux Malachite is a fancy polymer blended veneer that I created then backed with textured black polymer. There are several reasons why I textured the backing of the pendant but the primary one is that it is large and your skin needs to breath...it isn't elegant to perspire under your pendant!!! The centerpiece/pendant measures 4 1/2 inches by 1 7/8 inches including the filigree that extends in the cut work leaves at the top. Finish treatment on the polymer work is a medium sheen, not high gloss. Color and overall effect are much more beautiful in hand than picture! The necklace is adjustable from 12 to 23 inches with an elegant swirled fob style finish opposing the clasp. This allows for use with a wide range of neckline styles!
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Dream of Thebes Scarab Earrings
At the mad scientist laboratory this morning, I concocted polymer clay in a faux (that means fake for folks who don't know) blend. Tiny bits of gold leaf were ground into a custom mixed color of blue with a pinch of black to bring down the color, then rolled cut, cured, treated, glazed, ornamented and Voila! A pair of Faux lapis earrings. If you think working Polymer is cheap, easy, or passe'.......try it yourself. I dare ya!!!!! I seek to present, from my head to the work table, through any and all mediums. In this case I have been reading novels Titled: "River God", "Warlock", and "The Seventh Scroll" . These three books are some of the finest fiction adventure reading of my entire reading experience. I have read the trilogy three times and keep going back to do it again because it is so much fun. I don't know if I can mention the authors name here, but if you want to know his name, please email me. I will be happy to share so you can do the read to!!!!! Needless to say, ...
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Gift from the Garden Cuff Bracelet
I created this bracelet by creating a deep forest green polymer veneer of basket weave texture, highlighted with ancient gold embossing powders that have been cured into the surface after applying to an open Brass cuff bracelet. Next, an antiqued brass spray of fern was epoxied to one side that wraps to the center. This is a gorgeous presentation of textured fern leaves on half the cuff with the other half of the cuff showing the wonderful gold highlights in the basket weave effect! A tiny prong set floral piece of topaz Swarovski Crystals has been mounted to the leaf at center of the cuff for a bit of sparkle! Bracelet width is 1 1/4 inches. The cuff size is adjustable by gently squeezing or separating the opening of the cuff. The design is a luxurious weight (not light, flimsy, or cheap in presentation).
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Violets and Hydrangea Cuff Bracelet
After electroplating a wide brass bracelet blank with 24K Gold, I applied a base of basket weave embossed deep green polymer accented with shimmering copper. With custom mixed colors of polymer I created hydrangea flowers and violets which I attached to the surface of the bracelet. Each violet is center paste set with borealis crystals of finest vintage quality from a hoard of collected stones from closed down jewelry factories! Bracelet width is 1 1/4 inches. The cuff is adjustable and very nicely finished with my tiny, 24K Gold Plated, oval, "M" initial inside the cuff.
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Violets and Hydrangea Cuff Bracelet
A quick view of the cuff from the reverse side!
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