While I'm still doing my Copper as I always will I'm having fun playing with Polymer Clay which is as of a few weeks ago is new for me.
Arguably everything I've tried has turned out fairly successful to one degree or another, some more than others of course.
Arguably everything I've tried has turned out fairly successful to one degree or another, some more than others of course.
I want to keep pushing myself so this time I thought I'd try my hand at carving.
Above are some of the Baked Beads I haven't carved yet,
the carving tools and the remains of the carving I've already done.
It takes some practice to learn how much pressure to put on the carving tool and when it's about to fly off the PC and gouge in to your finger, I have the wounds to prove it but I'm not going to share those here.
Still need practice on getting consistent cuts but I'm getting there.
So much fun to carve in to this little one and see what lies beneath!
One big happy family!
I still need to do some finishing work on these
and try to decide if I want to leave them as is or try some antiquing.
By the way, Carving was not what I originally set out to do. It was actually another attempt at trying Polymer Clay Imprints, you can see my first attempt HERE
That wasn't successful so I made beads and decided they needed carving.
I just jumped in and went for it but there is lots of great information about carving.
Probably best known for carving is Celie Fago
I think carving texture plats might be pretty high up on my list of things I want to try.
Kristi
