Beach

After the batik, I was emboldened to try something new on clay.  This color pallet comes from the sunset hues, it reminded me of the beach too.  I am very cautious when I take out my white clay out of the box - clean my hands, clean the surface, switch of the fan and so on.  For that madness, I will think every possible way not to work with white :).  But once it was done I did not want to mush neatly rolled out clay and put it back and hence this piece.  I wanted to try something else than the usual stuff I end up doing.  The white made me think of my canvas and so I decided to paint on it and the result I loved.  Quickly rolled out some matching beads to go with it.  I will always forget to make earrings.  This does not have one and oh! it  already has a new owner who does not care much for an earring. BTW the painting is done with pastel chalk colors and alcohol ink and once again I realized painting is my realm.

I can bat(ik) too!..

Whew, I can also batik.  A technique which is so intriguing.  I keep staring and staring at the beautiful pieces made by people and then I realized it is each ones own imagination and not a fixed formula to create this.  So I had decided to do it on my own and no attending workshops or purchasing tutorials on this.  Of course many sleepless nights thinking of the way to go about.  Finally, I managed, not perfect, but something I felt somewhat close :).  But I failed to get the crackled effect.  I can improve, is it not? :) 

Black Silver

Playing with textures.  This is not with any texture plates but with some trinkets lying in my stash box and designed it to my liking.  A domed pendant with adjustable satin cords.  Each and every bead is textured , applying rustic style technique to give it an antique look. Earrings not yet done.  It is accentuated with crystal black beads. It took almost a month for me to decide the type of beads to go with this.  contemplating the type and color of beads to accompany this creation.

Mystic

A necklace and matching jhumka.  An idea springs from sometimes a flower, leaf, a scene, a shop, so many other weird things.  This was from a jewelry cord, even the necklace I call "forest" is also from the type of cord I picked up from the craft shop.  Anything I look at, I will think of using it for my clay projects.  Oh, when I talk about this, I remember I have completely forgotten about my old love, painting.  I have not touched a painting brush for such a long time but otherwise only to apply polish or mica powder on clay. In fact, the background I nowadays use to photograph my jewelry pieces is a burlap multimedia mounted canvas I got to paint some time back.  See what I am using it for now.  Find my paintings on my other blog Sketch Diary.

Coming back to my "Mystic" necklace - the name - i could not find any better name :), It is an adjustable necklace strung on rattail cord of the same fuchsia color.  The beads are handcrafted and the design on the necklace are simple cane. 

The jhumka is cone shaped ones.  This I think will keep it to myself.  

Fuchsia on Emerald

A disastrous project turned to be a beautiful piece.  The fuchsia colored clay is Fimo. After using Sculpey for almost all of my projects, I find the Fimo very crumbly to condition (I admit Fimo is best to do canes, very sturdy).  I was tiered conditioning it.  When I am irritated, to over come that I tend to do something intentionally wrong. This is an example, I rolled out the clay very thin and cut out small pieces and did some flowers on the emerald clay uneven and ugly.  Then I went on do something else and forgot about it.  The piece was missing and found it sticking to my long sleeve which had the texture and all the flowers pressed and embedded to the base clay, voila!, beautiful texture, good looking, did a pair of earring and did the edges with gold and it is sold out too :).  The necklace is strung on nylon cord, not adjustable. 

Denim paisley

This is an experimental piece of Sutton slice method, I had not finished the earring when I photographed this.  I cracked the pendant piece when I was baking it because of my stupidity.  The earring piece I simply placed on the jute cord to make it look like a bead.  Sutton slice is fun and the result is stunning, but it is tiring to do on a small tiny rubber stamp which is what I used.  When you run the blade over the clay you have press in, the clay lifts up then you have to do it again. You can watch the method over at the you tube by Polyform products demonstrated by Iris Weiss.

Forest

I loved the vibrant colors I dared to experiment with.  I liked the burlap cords which I got from my regular craft store, Skillsupplies.com. I wanted to make some beads matching the cord and set out the colors.  The purple 4mm beads dangling on the pendent is not polymer clay, they are Jaipur beads which I bought from beadsnfashion. The whole thing looked like a wild forest to me and so I named it forest. :)

blues, wasabi green, pumpkin souffle are the colors used.  The length of the necklace is 11 inches.  the clasp is a bead clasp. Burlap cording.  the pendant itself is 3 inches.