Exploring Sea Snail Trap Doors in Polymer and Silver
The Round Shells are the Sea Snail 'Trap Doors' in last week''s post My 'shell project' started soon after we returned home from Bahia Kino. (see last week's post). I wanted to make molds and see polymer and silver beads form. I started by conditioning my polymer clay to use for the mold material. As you can see in the photo below, one side of the shell is molded in the brown polymer and the other side (which is a more shallow mold) is in the blue polymer. There is also one mold where I used several shells and both sides for the design. When the polymer is baked it becomes hard and makes great molds. polymer molds and 2 of the shells Polymer Beads from the Mold The first thing I did was to use polymer to see how the details of the shells came out in the molds. I made beads with both the shallow side and the deeper spiral side of the shells. Both pieces are fired and a wire added for the connecting loops. The wire extends each side