Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

It seems that this 'stay at home' enforced time due to Covid 19 spurred many artists to challenge themselves.  Here's mine!  The Challenge:  Select an artist you love and a painting you love.  Apply the style of a 2 dimensional painting to a 3 dimensional object.   It was my challenge to myself and I chose Gustav Klimt and his painting 'Tree of Life' https://www.gustav-klimt.com/The-Tree-Of-Life.jsp My hollow turkey egg was ready for the first covering of polymer clay.   While that was curing, I looked through my stash of polymer canes (designs in polymer) and selected some that would work.  Next I made a few more and extruded strips to use for the tree and branches.   The design was sketched on the polymer covered egg and using a type of liquid polymer I applied the branches in areas and cured them in the oven.  I've learned to do a few at a time to keep shapes stable - that means baking the egg several times,  After the branches were done, the flowers and leav

The next turkey egg is prepped, ready to apply the polymer design to the polymer covering.  This time my design is based on Deb Hart's techniques and a wrought iron design I like.  On goes the lines and I bake it.  Next I  fill in the spaces.   I tried using liquid polymer and quickly realized it wasn't going to work.  The curved surface encourages the liquid polymer to run off.  Now wouldn't you think I could have figured that out without trying it?  I like using 2 colors of polymer chopped and mixed to get depth and I also like chopping metallic polymer and using the mica shift to look like 2 colors.  That comes in the next egg! My design is finished and cured and now I need to sand.  I use 3 grades of sandpaper and my Jool Tube for the sanding.  It gets nice and smooth and even.  I take it to my drill press with the lambswool buffer.  Turn it on and start to buff and polish.  And then....the egg slips from my hand, hits the concrete floor and I hear the cracking sound! 

Introspection and Thinking....   The Year of Covid-19 means more introspection and more observation on my part.  Staying home, exploring art, enjoying the color and nature around me encourages me to try 'the new'!  New recipes, new art materials, recreate my space and so much more.  It turns out that I have quite a few supplies, art books, and ideas to explore. My version of Deb Hart's Southwest Polymer Egg I've taken some online classes, one I'll share today, read books, entered online gallery shows and actually used my notebook.  The class I took was Deb Harts - 'Southwest Polymer Eggs'     Since I'm allergic to chicken eggs, I buy turkey eggs at The Prescott Farmer's Market.  They are equal to about 1 1/2 chicken eggs in size.  I'm often asked, "Do they taste like chicken eggs?" and my answer is 'I don't know.  I have not had a chicken egg in a long time.'  They do have a thicker yolk and white and the shell