Yet another practice egg using the translucent clay and partial covering

This polymer clay egg is hollow, and the light can shine through to the interior. I used some translucent polymer clay and some colored clay and made a daisy cane which i applied to the exterior of a whole chicken egg (well, emptied but a whole shell).  After curing i punched out the uncovered egg shell and removed the rest of the shell in white vinegar (many hours) and sanded the interior of the polymer clay (and exterior). This one is coated with varathane.  I am having fun with this technique, and the sky is the limit.

polymer clay and chicken egg designs

 

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.

polymer clay and chicken egg designs

 

Translucent daisy polymer clay hollow egg

While i was looking at previous eggs i noticed that the translucent polymer clay was really interesting when molded around a shape and then the mold removed, as happened with the large paper egg covered with polymer clay HERE. I decided to experiment a little on partially open eggs that had enough contact points to stand alone when the egg shell was removed, and came up with this daisy egg. I think it turned out kind of interesting, and I followed it up with several more.

polymer clay covered egg translucent daisy

polymer clay and chicken egg designs

Novelty black and white striped egg with bumps

polymer clay and chicken egg designs

This too is just a fun, nonsense polymer clay egg. I had made the black and white flag stripes cane for my grandson, and had some left over. The egg is quite small, originally probably one from the “medium” size store bought eggs. The jumbo eggs, when used with polymer clay can turn out to be really quite big so purposefully I chose smaller eggs.

Silly egg

It has been only a couple weeks since i made this silly egg polymer clay and chicken egg designs
with polymer clay. At this point it was such a “non” for me that I cannot remember over what object I pressed the clay. I doubt it was an egg, but it must have been, as i would not have used a large wooden bead for this. But i post it just for fun.

Great polymer clay cane ideas from nature

I was reading about organization (order in apparent chaos) for tissues cells and organelles with electron microscopy as a tool (transmission electron microscopy is what I have done for 40 years) and found a reference for chitin (someone’s blog i believe) and saw this picture of the layers of arrangement of N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (part of a chitin chain) (second ref from Cohen 1991) which has inspired me to try similar stacks of polymer clay to see if i can create a cane which upon slicing looks like the arched (which this blogger calls artifactual… probably more a visual consequence of slightly-continuously skewed orientation of molecules at a given thickness (oh wouldn’t it be fun to be someone who knew fractal equations… as they translate into DNA code).  Anyway, below is a diagram for all you polymer clay cane enthusiasts to practice with….  cane layers on the right, and the hyperbolic curves on the left…. please have fun… I cant wait to try it.

polymer clay cane approach to hyperbolic curves in slices

Dots and pink mandala pysanka egg

Not a great picture, but still one of those moments in time that I treasure, wiping the wax off a pysanka egg after its done….. thinking, will this turn out well, how badly did some areas of the egg take the die, did I plan colors correctly.  Ha ha… almost like getting a surprise gift at the end of the project.  You can see closely on this egg that I didn’t watch the amount of wax from my kistka in the white dots, as the black dye found its way into the center of the white dots.

pysanky eggs

Large yellow flower pysanky egg

This pysanka egg might have been improved with a little detail in the flower, but the background is kind of fun. Somehow I am always mentally thinking about how little time there is to do so many fun art-projects (and science as well, since that is my profession). I don’t know whether going through life “hoping to find something interesting” or “finding so many things interesting” is the worse curse/blessing. The burden lies in practice, getting better, and that takes time time time.

single yellow flower pysanka egg