An Experiment - A Petal Necklace
I have an idea about making flowers from polymer clay and I know I will have to experiment to get the idea to become a reality. I want to use translucent clay with some color and I want to control the shape of each petal. I’m also thinking large rather than tiny. I want the petals to glow as the light comes through. Ready for the oven I began by using Premo translucent clay and Premo 5504 Fushia. I conditioned each one separately. The fushia was rolled on a 4 setting and the translucent clay between 2 pieces of rag paper on a 5 setting. The translucent slab went down first. Then I sliced the fushia into 3/8” strips and layed them criss-cross on the translucent. My multi colored fushia, gold, and copper foil went down next and another slab of translucent on top of that. I rolled all that on a 1 setting and then cut the petal shapes. I made a general paper pattern and kept cutting it smaller as the petals got smaller....