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Showing posts with label fimo. Show all posts

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Cabbages in 1:18

Well, well, well, I'll be out of photos very soon. Since I still don't have a memory for my camera, I can't show you yesterdays projects, which are some strawberries and cherries.

Now I have some cabbages :) I managed to make some cabbage leaf canes. It took some time to figure out, how it looks the best, as you can see on the first picture. At first I used too much white with the translucent clay, so the veins were too strong, but I figured out, that I only need a tiny chunk, just to give it a color.

Again, I had problems with the leaf. Since I have to make tons of this cabbage, I had to find out an easy technique. It took some time :) I plan to make a vein stamp, so the next cabbages could be much more realistic!

(These are all 1:18!!!)

Evolution of a cabbage!



Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Planted!

One of 2013's favourite item was the cacti-series. I just improvised some plants in the pots I got earlier in a craft store. Each pot is 13mm tall, so the cacti are pretty small :)

I also used it as a base for 1:18 pots. Pretty simple technique, which I'd like to share with you :) I just took the pot, and filled it with pot-colored clay completely, caring for air bubbles. Easiest way is to make a long teardrop shape, and press it into the pot by the pointy end, so the pot will fill up completely, and no cracks will be visible when you remove it. Then I took my exacto knife, and cut out a dome shaped bit from the middle, to make it some kind of hollow. Since I used this for other plants, there was no need to make it completely hollow, because I would fill it up anyways. Then I baked the pot, and filled it with soil coloured clay, and "planted" my little cacti inside :)

Right now, I only have photos of the oroginal pots, because last week I managed to break my camera's memory card, and all the past month's photos are gone now :( I saved some of them from facebook and an external drive, but not all of them :( Too bad, now I'm not even able to take photos for a few days, until I get a new one...

Right now, I'm working on some 1:18 cherries. Pretty small I think, but if I manage to finish them, they will look awesome :D





Most excited about these two...
Took some time to figure out, how to stabilize the leaves :)




Thursday, December 26, 2013

Life in miniature is so complicated!

I could never imagine, how much I will fall in love with miniatures. In the past 18 months, I worked with polymer clay. Started with jewellry, which I never really liked, mostly, because I don't really wear any of them. I had hard time, to push my creations in the border of an earring, which I would never wear, hard time with all the people, who asked for a gift for Christmas, for example. Why did I even start to make jewellry then? No reason, I think. When I bought my first set of Fimo, I made a lemon pie first. All the things that I could imagine was food, and that was the way I really wanted to go, but instead, I made hanging cats as earring, not even a bit of realistic. I hated it, soooo much, that my borders were so tight.

One day, I met someone, who is now my partner, and now uses my creations (most of the simple ones) as Shadow Box elements. That was the first time, when I had a chance, by a little force, to get out of the box of 'one-of-a-dozen' clayers, and make WHAT I LIKE TO- cakes, food, bread and baguette. Sometimes this year, I met a collector, who liked my vegetables- which were pretty large, never measured, and, let's just say, UGLY, that he asked a bunch of them for himself. I needed time, to get over the shock, that someone actually LIKES my work, even though they were UGLY. Yep, like childish playing around. But still, he's asking for more and more of them, and I'm still trying to get better in creating them.

What was the reason I bought my clay set? I still have no idea. I just dropped out of school, and had no idea, what to do with my life, no chance, to go to university or graduate, so I started to knead clay. Now my borders are tightening again. I want more, than creating a dozen of each piece, which could be waaay better, if I put just a bit more effort in creating them. That's why I start to write this blog. This might be a 'bit' selfish, but I need the pressure and the support of pulicity. That's how someone can improve skills. Or at least, for me, this is the way! I hope, that you'll enjoy, what you see, and return for news. Feel free to comment, ask questions, criticize, or whatever you'd like, I will read them all, and answer them all! Welcome, to my improving miniature world :)



Based on SugarCharmShop's (Tanja Jensen) celery, carrot and knife tutorial