Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

Series of Four - Texture, Color and Nature  It's always fun to start a new project.  This time I wanted to explore nature with techniques using texture and color highlighting sea creatures.  The sea fascinates me with all the large and small shapes of animals, with animals that look like flowers and plants, with seashells that were homes and so much more.   Selecting which creatures I use in this study took some research, planning and experimenting. There is so much in nature we are not aware.  For instance -Sea Slugs and the variety of shapes and colors they come in.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_slug   Nor was I aware of the Ribbon eel - such a graceful unusual creature.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_eel I began collecting pictures of the creatures that were appealing to me and that might support each other in a texture series.   Before the actual work could begin, the decision of how and what to use for mounting each piece was decided on.  The structure chosen was

  Ever wonder what you could do with those extra parts and pieces you have in containers?  I happened to pick up a polymer start to a bead and decided to do something else with it.  I may never know why it reminded me of tropical fish but it did.  This was my opportunity to experiment, create and learn.   These are polymer shells I learned to make in Dan Cormier's class and as it happens I got carried away and made several I did not use.  They make great fish bodies!   Next a little research -  I wanted my fish to be somewhat accurate (yes with lots of poetic license!)   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_fish Then I started going through some of my old polymer canes and making some new colors and textures and the fun began!  Just coat the baked shells with liquid polymer and start applying textures and colors.  Once the fish were finished.....ok it was so much fun I may have to make more!...I needed seagrass to anchor them in the visual story. Long strands of seagrass came fro

Happy Holidays to Everyone!  It's been awhile since I posted my adventures and today I want to introduce Tommy the Turtle! If you've been following my FB posts you know I've been making polymer bowls.  I'm finding it habit forming - such a great way to use old canes (tubes of polymer clay).  I've made bowls with various themes - chameleon bowls, poison dart frog bowls and now turtle bowls!  My newest turtle bowl showcases 'Tommy the Turtle' as the center in the bottom of the bowl.  And if you look closely there are different size turtles climbing out of the bowl!  I started making Tommy several weeks ago before I went to Rocky Point Mexico.  While I was there I fell and hurt my knee and the pads of my hands.  I'll recover in time!  The problem was when I returned home and wanted to finish the cane with the turtle.  That required squishing the large turtle cane (about 6" across) with my hands  and that really hurt.  I figured out maybe I c