To antique or not to antique... part 3, try another color

Pick a color...any color

Black Ne-opaque

Brown Ne-opaque

True Gold- Lumiere

Red Ne-opaque

White Ne-opaque

Click on the image for a closer view.

Wow, what a difference a color makes!

I used all of the same colors of clay. 

Do not forget the 13th giveaway, with 3 parts.

Part 1 http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2010/05/13th-giveaway-part-1.html  ends the 19th of may, 2010

Part 2 http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2010/05/13th-giveaway-part-2.html  ends the 20th of may, 2010

Part 3 http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2010/05/13th-giveaway-part-3.html  ends the 21st of may, 2010

Hushed Humpdays

tee juice fineliner, acrylics, lumiere acrylics

8" x 10" Skullie

Plain acrylics, before Lumiere acrylics.

4 x 6's- Sacred Heart

Black Tee-Juice fabric marker for outline, Lumiere acrylic paints, and regular acrylics.

The other Mirror

I made a mold set quite a while ago called Etruscan, it was one of my favorites. It was discontinued rather quickly because the big retail stores didn't pick it up. The numbers were low, in the trash it goes. Some one requested the mold, there are no more, so I remade the pieces for them. I test the molds before sending them out so I added the pieces to this frame in gold Cernit with the interference powders on it: Blue, Red, and Violet Interference Pearl-ex, baked them and then antiqued with Pewter Lumiere.




The frame was quite plain before but I like it a lot now.


Here are the instructions for painting the mirror.
http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2009/06/paint-mirror-quick-and-easy.html


See what happened to the other one here.
http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2009/06/raven-vomiting-diamonds.html

Raven vomiting Diamonds

Beau Dick, Kwagiulth

Hands of Creation 1990

"The raven is a symbol of creation for my people. The raven's wings are depicted as hands. The stream of abalone that flows from the raven's beak represents the seeds of creativity."
http://www.nativenorthwest.com/

How perfect is that?

I know it sounds silly, but it moved me. This is before I saw the card and read it. Sometimes you just gotta fly by the seat of your pants.

Purest Green at "where there are no chickadees" is having an unusual giveaway. It is called the postcard project. Right side of her blog, if you want to take a chance.

You can read about it here

http://underthetonguerecipes.blogspot.com/2009/05/great-big-postcard-project.html

and here

http://underthetonguerecipes.blogspot.com/2009/05/postcard-project-update-and-some.html

and here

http://underthetonguerecipes.blogspot.com/2009/06/pretty-things-i-have-received-in-post.html

I signed up. I was enticed by what she called "raven vomiting diamonds". I know, weird thing to be enticed by, but I love ravens and if they are regurgitating diamonds it can not be a bad thing.

And then I forgot about it.

A week later I got the card you see at the top. There was no description when I signed up, only her words, "Raven vomiting diamonds". I love the card, it is a Canadian card, sent from Scotland, to the USA. With a cute note to me from Purest Green. How cool is that? And my world is way bigger.

Well, I am a visual person, when others are talking I get visuals like a movie screen in my head that spits out images. Some times this is good and as you can imagine, some times it is very interesting. I really don't think about it much, it just is and always has been.

This time it was good.

You know that frame I told you how to paint. Well... this is what happened to one of them.

Read about it and the instructions here

http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2009/06/paint-mirror-quick-and-easy.html
And if I tell you to "stop, I am getting a visual", you will know it is probably interesting.

Tah-dah "Raven vomiting all kinds of things"

Summer Solstice- part 2

For the runes stones above you will need:
Pinata inks
Cernit porcelain white 2 ounce block
Clay Blade
Pasta machine
Ne-Opaque White
Rune Stamp 246-001k- http://www.eragraphic.com/
Glass Gems Clear- got mine at the local craft store, 3$ a bag
Decorative bag to hold them- local craft store
Here is the other link for how to color the clay
http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2009/06/lapis-lazuli.html

All of the supplies in bold print can be found in my husband's store Clay Factory
http://www.clayfactory.net/


After the clay is colored. Condition and roll out the colors in the pasta machine on the 5th thickest setting.


Cover the glass tablet and pinch the edges of the clay down.






Fold the other end of the clay over the glass stone. Trim away the excess so the seam on top matches. Pinch the clay together and smooth.

Smooth all of the seams and roll very gently in your palms to smooth.
Lay the rounded side of the stone down on the rune you want to stamp and roll it a little from side to side to imprint the rune.

You may have marks from the rune next to the one you impressed on the stone, you can smooth that away with your finger.
Lay on your baking cardboard and bake in a pre-heated 275F degree oven for 30 minutes, shut off oven and let cool.
Antique with the Ne-Opaque white.
You can find that at this post.
http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2008/10/lumiere-as-antiquing-medium.html

craft & a cocktail (with the craft whore) celebrates summer solstice with special guest ALICIA BRANDT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8R7FE_0cMs
Disclaimer: there is some language in this, so if you tend to be offended, don't watch.

Summer Solstice- Rune tiles and beads

Summer solstice the longest day of the year

from Science world http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/

Awed by the great power of the sun, civilizations in the northern areas have for centuries celebrated the first day of summer otherwise known as the Summer Solstice, Midsummer (see Shakespeare), St. John's Day, or the Wiccan Litha.

From http://www.chiff.com/

I love Runes. I like the way they feel and look and it brings me back to an ancient time.

I like pieces of polymer clay that look like they have been dug out of the ground or are replicas of a time gone way by. My pieces have been a reflection of that. I used to call my creations "Ancient Myth with a Modern twist".

These do have the modern twist.

I love letters and words also so this is just the ticket for me. If you have noticed I have been focusing on Pinata inks and this is a continuation of that too.

I also LOVE this lady's stamps. ERA Graphics
She has a rune stamp 246-001k

here is the link to her site, http://www.eragraphics.com/

Please tell Roberta I sent you. She is a talented artist and a nice woman trying to make her way in the world, just like me and I am sure, also a few of you!

It is also an Angel stamp company.

You can get stamps unmounted.

You will need:

Porcelain White Cernit

Pinata inks of your choice

5/8" round cutter

Lumiere or Ne-Opaque acrylic in the color/colors of your choice

Rune Stamp 246-001k from ERA Graphics

Products in Bold print are available from Clay Factory http://www.clayfactory.net/

1. Color your white clay with the ink.

You can follow this post http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2009/06/lapis-lazuli.html

as a matter of fact I am going to use some of the Lapis Lazuli to make some of the runes.

When your clay is colored with ink to the shade that you like, remember they will darken after baking so 3- 5 drops is great for most colors, but I probably used 15 for the Lapis Lazuli,

2. Roll out your clay on the thickest setting in your pasta machine and double the sheet to get a thicker sheet or roll out by hand to about 1/4" thick.

3. Cut out round shapes.

4. Roll into little barrels.

5. Cut the stamp into rows of Runes this way.

6. Press the little barrels on to the rune. You are pressing to make the impression not flatten so use a gentle hand.

If you get a little heavy of hand, recondition the clay and do it again or press gently with you fingers on the sides to push back in to a square shape. You can "drill" the holes with needle or needle tool before they are baked or drill with a small bit after they are baked and cooled.

7. Line up on a piece of cardboard and bake in a 275F degree pre-heated oven for 30 minutes. Shut off the oven and let cool.

After they are cool antique with the Lumiere or Ne-opaque

Here is how to antique your baked pieces. You can see the results of the different colors of Lumiere and Ne-Opaque above.

http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2008/10/lumiere-as-antiquing-medium.html

If you like heavier runes you can cover small light colored river stones or glass pebbles with the Pinata colored clay and stamp, bake, and finish by antiquing. Coming next post.

Paint a Mirror- quick and easy

Malma Mirror from Ikea in pine

Black Ne-Opaque

Old Brass and Pewter Lumiere

Hi Lite Lumiere in Red, Violet, and Blue

3/4" bristle brush

1" foam brush

Paint whole pine part of mirror with Black Ne-Opaque including sides and let dry. Use foam brush and thin coat.

Paint Little sections at a time with Old Brass and Pewter and blend section a little including the sides. I think it looks good rough like this. Let dry. Use bristle brush. You can stop here if you wish, it looks pretty good like this.

With foam brush apply a little of the Hi-Lite Violet at a time almost dry brushing and blend, blend, blend. Do little sections.

Apply Hi Lite Blue in this manor and blend some in to violet parts.

Apply Hi lite Red the same way and blend in to other hi lite colors.

The Hi Lite paints are like interference Pearl-ex Powders.

Leave patches of Pewter and Old Brass background showing through.

I can get these paints in 8 ounce, 32 ounce and 1 gallon. It would look so good on a wall. The paints also work on fabric, leather, paper, wood, photos, shrink plastic and even Styrofoam!

Looks almost like Raku pottery. Or similar to oil on water.

Very hard to get a good picture of the effect.

I will try again.

Lumiere as an antiquing medium

Lumiere acrylic paint makes a wonderful antiquing medium. It is definitely different than using an opaque medium like Ne-Opaque, but beautiful none the less.





Punch the color in to a baked piece with a large stencil brush, I use a ½” or bigger round stencil brush. Using a damp but not soaking old piece of bath towel I wipe and if necessary rub off the excess paint.
This chart shows Lumiere colors on black and white Cernit.

The Clay Factory carries both the Lumiere and Cernit Phthalate-free clay.

I have pictures of other examples of standing shrines on my web page http://www.mariesegal.com/ under the shrine page. All of them are antiqued with Lumiere or Ne-Opaque. Another wonderful thing about these paints is they can be used on a lot of other canvas beside Polymer clay, like fabric, paper, and leather.

Red

Red is a color I am just getting to know. I did not vibrate with it when I was younger. I find that I am playing with it a lot more these days. This is an example of the Neo-Opaque Red on Cernit, black, gold and copper. I love the way it looks. It makes a beautiful antiquing medium for clay. The color is thick and rich, it works on cloth, leather, air dry clay and many other surfaces. I apply to the baked textured disks and let dry a bit, then rub off with a damp old towel. Sometimes it takes a bit of rubbing.

You can also bake the clay pieces again at about 200 degrees F. for about 10 minutes to set paint.

Check out some of the other great Ne-Opaque colors we carry at the Clay Factory it says it is the Lumiere paint page but do not pay attention to that, Howard is trying to trick you.