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Illusion necklace

Pörrö | February 28, 2009

This month I studied illusion techniques with metallic Premo.

Lessons learned this month:

- Although I have done plenty of illusions during the years I have usually worked with stamping techniques. This time only one of the beads was made with stamping.

- Working in monochromatic colour palette is easy with this technique.

- Stringing flat beads to make necklaces gives the piece a lot of volume without adding much weight. I have several interesting ideas how to go to this direction.

- I did discover some new (new to me probably) ideas that can be used to make faux stones.

- Working with illusions is great as there is no leftover clay. Any bad beads can be mixed back to smooth clay and started over.

- I only sanded the sides of the beads but did not buff the beads as I do not like the overly shiny look metallic clays have when buffed, especially on designs on colours like this. How ever buffing the beads would suit for different colour palette.

- A friend took black and white picture of me with the necklace. I found out that the effects show up in B & W pictures quite nicely: