Just got this idea, crazy, that I would make an egg with minnie mouse decorations. So here are the first 6 attempts. I think i have made something nice, then take a picture which enhances all the scratches and nicks, then i get disappointed.
Category: Miscellaneous
left over egg ideas, artwork, and other things
Burr oak acorn egg
Could not resist putting a little polymer clay egg into this perfect burr acorn cap with its feathery edges.
Orbicular granite egg (made with polymer clay)
While making a couple of marble eggs i googled “granite” and “images” and was so taken by a particular kind of granite (orbicular granite) with its gorgeous round geode like places that i decide while i am making “faux rock” eggs with egg shells and polymer clay i would try to create one that might look like orbicular granite. I think this egg (which i have just sanded to a smooth finish but not glossed) is really fun. If you want to see some awesome real orbicular granite, google it. There are not that many places in the world where such granite is found.
Resin half egg and pink flower
This egg was a total test. I have never cast a whole flower nor a large cast with resin. I used an uncoated egg shell (chipped off the top of a blown egg so i could insert the flower). The flower (which i could not identify) had three heads each with many tiny flowers that were spikey.
I put a polymer clay base on this egg and a little decoration along the bottom edge. It is just made with left overs. I did try to learn to use the ultra clear resin from resinobscession…. i have a lot to learn. I chipped and etched off the egg shell (vingar) and sanded the top smooth and coated it with varathane.
Translucent and opaque polymer clay flower bowl
Translucent and opaque polymer clay flower bowl made over an egg shell, then egg dissolved (and chipped) away to reveal a scalloped border. Fun to see through, and i think the next egg will have a black divider (grout or leading) look. This one has opaque turquoise clay, and the flowers are translucent spiral cane surrounded by the blue. I haven’t finished this one yet, i am thinking that this needs some of the same flowers on wire (a little bit bendable and bouncy) centered in some radical wire base, that wont cover up the four flowers at the bottom?
Wonder what the topic for a stained glass – type egg will be… i can envision this as a creche… maybe a similar shape exterior as a stained glass window and a creche inside, maybe just the babe and manger. Thinking on this.
Translucent polymer clay and partial eggs
I tried another experiment with translucent polymer clay mixed with opaque clay and a partial application of floral canes to real chicken eggs. After curing i soaked the original egg shell (after i had punched enough away to allow it to fill) with white vinegar (about 5 hours). I sanded the interior to remove the last little bit of shell.
The wrapping of this cane around the egg is less “fun” than the previous yellow daisy egg in my own opinion, but an interesting technique to be sure. Someone who has more patience than i could use this technique to make some really beautiful objects. For me, the invention is the fun part. This hollow style egg would need some original kind of holder for display.
The open part of the egg is visible just a tiny bit at the top, and the lower left bottom one can also see the interior of the egg.
BMW 320i painted with large flowers – an art car
Here are some of the pix of my fav art car. I think I finished painting it sometime in 2001. BMW flower painted car
BMW art cars (my 320i flower car in the middle)
Could not resist putting my first BMW art car in the midst of all these famous cars. I think it is nice, and surely not like the others. Two 320i cars I have painted with flowers, and one of them I used gallery glass to make dimensional flowers, but didn’t like it (the texture just kept holding the dirt and grime) so i removed it and put the BMW logo flowers on it instead. That second car I had only just finished painting when someone ran a red light and T-boned it…. totaling it, I was so sad… In truth, it had become such a “bare-bones” transportation vehicle, no air conditioning, seats beginning to wear out, interior rugs just thread bare, I think it was time. So that car is posted HERE, and my first painted BMW art car is posted below. My flower car BMW is not painted by a professional car painter, LOL, but surely one who loves BMWs and flowers.
BMW art car: Marian Miller – BMW flower logos
Haha… i just needed to add my car to the list of BMWs that have been painted. This was BMW art car #2, the first one i will hunt up some pix and post as well. BMW flower car, art car and just fun. Sadly just after i finished this (literally pain was hardly dry) someone ran a red light and totalled it….. poor car…. No one was hurt, but I miss it.
3 cane polymer clay egg sculpture
Just tried making a little “brighter” canes for this egg, meaning not using so much black between the pieces of the cane. The yellow and red were more prominent. I will try again, as always. But I did end up understanding two things, 1 sometimes it is good to let the cane rest before using it, and 2, i think i like a firmer polymer clay, Premo is too soft, Fimo soft seems too soft, I am going to investigate a stiffer clay for canes.
