While a lot of graffiti is just noise, there is some pretty amazing artwork that can be seen around the world by taggers. As I head into the second day of CHA (see yesterday's post) I offer up this lid as a tribute to creativity. It started with creating a brick background in polymer clay. After blending brick colored clay, I incised the recessed lines and spots using a needle tool. After baking, the surface was antiqued with black acrylic paint. I added a simple black clay border on the rim. I initially was going to leave the "brick wall" as is, but then I was hit by the idea to add "graffiti." I hand-painted this using Plaid Folk Art acrylic paints.
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