Transferring the contour of the horse
As you saw in the previous blog post, I made a pencil drawing of the horse from the photo. Then I mixed a brown hue of polymer clay and used the pasta machine for making sheets, approximately 1 mm of … Read More
As you saw in the previous blog post, I made a pencil drawing of the horse from the photo. Then I mixed a brown hue of polymer clay and used the pasta machine for making sheets, approximately 1 mm of … Read More
This is a jigsaw puzzle. Play it and you will see the Mosebacke Horse that you may be able to follow the creation of during the next days.
There may be many reasons, and one reason may be yourself. Maybe it is yourself that stops you from being creative. Days when you find it hard to be creative, grab a paper and a pencil and put down the … Read More
When you are creating the best you are totally present, full of expectations and curiosity. Do not get stuck in thoughts on the past, or on how the finished project should look like. Just be present and experience what happens. … Read More
In my previous blog post Alice Stroppel showed how to make Stroppel canes. Here are the left-over canes from the Cloisonné Horse and some black polymer clay. I rolled the black clay in thin sheets and placed parts of he … Read More
Of course you can operate your artistic business in a traditional commercial way. But there are some things that (at least for me) differ from an ordinary business. In ordinary businesses you have goals, many of them about performance goals. … Read More
Now it’s the tricky part of it all. To make it look like cloisonné. In real cloisonné, you first make patterns with metal wire and then you add color in the fields between the wires. I chose to do it … Read More
In my last blog post about the cloisonne horse I came to the conclusion that I had to develop a technique of my own to make something that looks like cloisonné. To make this, I needed a black base for … Read More
I started to think about a Mosebacke Horse in some kind of cloisonné-like technique. I did some research on the internet, and found some tutorials on faux cloisonné, but did not find any that used polymer clay for the colored … Read More
As an artist, creativity is your primary tool. It is wonderful when it is in place and functioning. But sometimes it is hard to find the inspiration and the creativity. It may be due to many different things, but sometimes … Read More