Category: Custom decorated eggs

Still in christmas mode i guess… i arrived pretty late in that mode…. I will move to easter eggs momentarily. LOL

This santa was actually fun to make. I enjoyed the process, but of course didn’t take the time to make him “finished” in a pristine manner, he is just a learning “egg”.

I made the hat first, then cured it, but the egg (not covered with polymer clay) broke as i was sanding the hat…. so i found another egg, upon which the hat could comfortably sit, and covered that egg for face and the band of his hat and the piece of hat that no longer had “shell” in it. (I dissolved out the shell from the “hat” using white vinegar).   I put the translucent and white polymer clay jelly-roll cane on for his beard then cured again.  Sanded… also, no urethane on this one.

Santa claus polymer clay chicken egg: somehow all those words just dont seem to go into a sentence, let alone a title.  I laughed at the title. But in fact this is a chicken egg (emptied of its contents) covered first in a blue and white jelly roll cane where the beard and mustache go, then cured, then other elements added and cured again.  The original chicken egg remains inside.  It was a trick to try to sand this.

I will make a category called “apologetics” where i can ruminate on how i never get the outside smooth, and how these eggs rarely turn out like i envision them in the beginning. THis santa claus egg is no exception. If i ever did anything except prototypes, then perhaps something worth blogging about might come about.

He is cute to me at this time nonetheless, i like the impish expression. Photo taken in the morning hours of a wet snow-rain-ice mix.

Polymer clay and chicken egg come together in this slightly silly bird looking out of an egg (made with marble clay and a spiral cane) with a chunk taken out (lying beside it).

There is an odd “pain” to my creating objects, since I get an idea and then am pretty driven to try it out, but in the process I get impatient and dont completely sand them or finish them to perfection. Wish I were different in that respect, but then if i were, then multitudes of lesser quality experiments would never happen. It is tough to stand on that fulcrum.  It is possible to see some of the spiral canes (on the inside of the egg, making a “shadow eye”  –being somewhat transparent with the light coming from outside the egg. None of my spiral cane inserts show up on this view.

The circular pix is so you can see the beak that belongs on that bird head… ha ha.

 

My attempt here was to create a cane of mickey mouse and put it all over an empty chicken egg.  As you can see, it didn’t work real well, but i think there is enough resemblance to trigger the image of mickey.  Ha… I also tried a silhouette and that didn’t turn out much better. I guess i need to refine my cane skills, particularly in keeping round objects round while building the cane.  My poor sister gets this for christmas… ha ha.

Just having fun still with polymer clay and canes over the base of an emptied chicken egg.  I debated whether to (and i might still) drill holes in the white areas (where the white rose petals are ground and kneaded in) and put little polymer clay “eyes” or perhaps little yellow flowers.  Still thinking on this.   I love working with canes, my take is different than many others who use it for a precision cut and paste variation on the cut and paste of computer graphics, and while in all honesty I cannot personally pull that off, i am not apt to want to because i really enjoy the more chaotic variation on a theme.  It reflects so much of life, so much the same–yet so different.