I love creating rust and patina's on baked polymer clay. My friend and incredibly talented artist/author, Christi Friesen, is making the materials that product real rust and other metallic patinas on clay available to the masses with her new line of surface treatments called "Swellegant!" I was lucky enough to be the recipient of her new product and here is but one example of the delicious creativity that you can achieve. I find that I can get this finish very quickly. Heating the product after every coating in the oven (at the same temperature I am curing my clay at), creates the effects in a few hours or less, rather than days. The rust finish was applied to the face. I continued to add the two components until I was satisfied with the result. I set the face onto a mokume gane base layer of clay and pressed a snake of black clay all around to conceal the gaps and frame it. The sides are simple, texture clay with Tierracast elements and copper nail heads pressed into evenly spaced intervals.
Ooooo, this one just speaks to me!
Posted by: Mary Shannon Hicks | 06/26/2012 at 07:46 AM