Oh No! I Dropped My Egg and It Cracked!



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!  Crying won't help.  

FaceBook has some good points - like polymer groups of artists who are willing to share and to support each other.  A couple people suggested using the Japanese technique of Kintsugi   (fill in the crack with gold!)  So I tried it... here is where liquid gold polymer did work!  I brushed it in the larger cracks and cured it in sections.  Then I wiped it all over the egg making sure it filled the smaller cracks, wiped it off and cured.  


Yes I'm happy with the result.  It was at first disappointing to have a cracked egg and I could have thrown it away and started over.  I'm so glad I did not do that.  Learning new ways to solve problems is very satisfying!


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