Jellyfish - My Way- Mixed Media
Finished Jellyfish! While taking my latest metal clay class with Hadar Jacobson, my muse took over and said, "Oh this could be a jellyfish!" And so my mokume gane project took this shape! For anyone not familiar with mokume gane it is a Japanese metal technique that merges several different metals. Artists of metal clay came up with a way to merge different metal clays to form similar patterns. Artists of polymer clay developed a totally different method. (more on that in another post). In Hadar's class we used bronze, copper and steel to form the patterns and inserted those pieces of dried clay into a bronze base. The mokume gane pattern shows well on the body of the jellyfish. This was a piece that I brought home in dried clay (greenware) form and fired the piece in my kiln. I was so happy that it fired well and finished beautifully. In the greenware state I added wire loops for attaching the polymer tentacles. ...