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Burning midnight oil...
« on: October 19, 2014, 11:28:06 PM »

I'm planning out my Metal clay entry for the next FMG contest category.
Sometimes you just have to stay up late to get it all out on paper or for that matter get it drawn out before it changes itself in your brain as designs often do in my case.

Going to be using stones by Christopher, Accented1 (Jason), and Sheila (Rocfeathers) from the other forum.

I'm going to try my hand at chip inlay on this baby, building the channels from metal clay.  The inlay will be quartz chips, amethyst chips, and faux opal chips.

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Re: Burning midnight oil...
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2014, 07:12:35 AM »

three words; Niiiiicccee!!!! :headbang:
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Re: Burning midnight oil...
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2014, 08:28:56 AM »

Yeah....Now to pull it off!   :idea1:

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Re: Burning midnight oil...
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2014, 09:40:07 AM »

On paper it looks awesome, I can't wait to see it in the flesh.   Will you take interim shots, so we can see it as it grows??
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Re: Burning midnight oil...
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2014, 11:02:10 AM »

If I remember to take shots as I do things I'll post them.   :icon_sunny:
Sadly I get going and buried in a project and I tend to forget about before and during pictures!

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Re: Burning midnight oil...
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2014, 06:43:11 PM »

I envy your ability to draw out your designs.  I can't draw worth spit. 

Looks like it's gonna be a good one, Amanda.  Have at it!   :icon_sunny:
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Re: Burning midnight oil...
« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2014, 07:43:05 PM »

I envy your ability to draw out your designs.  I can't draw worth spit. 

Looks like it's gonna be a good one, Amanda.  Have at it!   :icon_sunny:

Honestly I have really only drawn out three designs to date.  This one, my last metals entry and my polymer clay entry.  Otherwise I never draw the designs out, they just morph from my brain into whatever they become in my hands...

I do happen to come from an artistic family.  Dad is a graphic designer by education and can make exquisite pen and ink drawings, in his history he did painting on canvas, ceramic sculpture and painting of the pieces.  My sister can do drawings in colored pencil and pastels that look lifelike or mimic exactly Disney characters, and she does it all free hand!  Mom quilts and crochets.  Me?  I'm a Jewelry artist, weaver, and sculpture person.  We all ended up with our specialties.  I have an Aunt who is a rock hound but her kind of hounding is if it looks interesting she picks it up!  According to my Father her apartment is lined with rocks all over the place.

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Re: Burning midnight oil...
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2015, 01:23:00 PM »

And as my overly creative brain would have it, this design has lost appeal with me. 
I'm moving on, have something else grabbing my interest for this contest that deals with blue stones and silver and some sculpture.
Not taking the time to draw out the newest design.  It's in my head and it's morphing around a stone I grabbed at the Flagg Gem and Mineral show this past weekend.

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Re: Burning midnight oil...
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2015, 01:45:06 PM »

I wonder about PMC as an alternative to wire wrapping.
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Re: Burning midnight oil...
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2015, 04:16:17 PM »

I couldn't draw anything and have it come out right either unless we are talking about stick people made with tooth pics but I could never put together something like that in my head either. Too intricate for me.

Love your work and look forward to seeing the finished project.
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Re: Burning midnight oil...
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2015, 05:30:08 PM »

If it was meant to be, it will come back later. It could be years, and suddenly you got the urge as well as just the right piece of stone to make you go forward. Design looks fabulous, big, but fabulous.  :icon_thumleft: :icon_thumright:
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Re: Burning midnight oil...
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2015, 07:23:49 PM »

Thanks everyone.
Kurt, it is big, but I think I need something different than my standard breast plate sized pieces for this contest this time.
I'm going for an Urban renewal/Sci-fi theme with blue stones and some cubic zirconia instead.  Going to have some fun with carving dried clay and appliqueing a clay pattern to a base....
They like attention to detail in these contests.  They're about to get it!   :icon_sunny:

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Re: Burning midnight oil...
« Reply #12 on: January 13, 2015, 05:21:34 PM »

Ohhhh I love it... Hope this comes back around soon in the to do list:)
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Re: Burning midnight oil...
« Reply #13 on: January 13, 2015, 06:03:11 PM »

Thanks Sara.  One never knows.  A design will fall out of favor with me only to be reborn in a different manner later on.  :thumbsup:

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Re: Burning midnight oil...
« Reply #14 on: January 14, 2015, 01:42:49 PM »

Only a true artist knows the time when its time:) LOLOL
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