PCAGOE FEBURARY MONTHLY CHALLENGE ~ FAUX ~ My Entry

 

 

I am a proud member of this amazing group

 

So many extremely talented artists.

 

Fun challenges every month

 

Supportive group that Pins on Pinterest

 

Many Treasury's made to support our members

 

I enjoy being a part of this group

 

Love looking at every ones progress

 

as artists and getting to know them.

 

 

 

 

This months challenge is Faux

 

That can be any type of Faux anything made with

 

Polymer Clay.

 

 

 

I chose a faux stone.

 

Looking for genuine stones Ugh the prices.

 

I love faux fire agate

 

Like the look of it being slightly transparent

 

Love the many shades it comes in.

 

So I experimented last night and had fun with it.

 

I of course choose purple

 

Since purple and pink are my favorite colors.

 

Here is a real Fire Agate

 

This is sold by someone on Ebay

 

To see the stone and seller click on the photo.

 

 

 

I will be making a tutorial on this.

 

Almost done with it just have to finish up editing photos.

 

It was fun and easy so I want to share. :)

 

 

 

 

Here is my Faux Purple Fire Agate Pendant

 

I Also made a faux druzy slice

 

All wire wrapped Just like a normal stone.

 

Was very fun and when the light shows through

 

It is so clear and you can see both sides and all the

 

pretty colors of clay.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love Premo White transparent it is awesome

 

It really helped with this technique.

 

It is so hard to show in photos the true transparency.

 

I am very sick so I didn't have the time I wanted

 

and did not feel up to the other ideas I had to add to it.

 

But I had fun so that is all that matters.

 

 

I hope you stop by and Vote

 

Voting begins February 1st - 7th

 

Ill be sure to remind everyone.

 

Stop by and see every ones great Faux

 

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Hugs and blessings to all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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JAN 2013 ABS ~ ArtBeadScene Monthly Challenge ~ My entry

JAN ABS 2013 Challenge

 

Link to The Artbeadscene Monthly Challenge Blog

 

I have missed this group and challenge.

 

 

Black Peacocks with Japanese Persimmons
Jessie Arms Botke, 1940
Oil and Gold Leaf on Panel
32 x 40 inches
(Please note this art is copyrighted and is to be used only as inspiration.)

About the Art

This is representative of Botke's detailed, intricate style and her signature gold leaf technique, whereby thin sheets of gold are applied to the canvas or panel. Botke specialized in depicting birds such as peacocks, flamingos, geese and pelicans, often against an imaginary landscape or a background of exotic flowers and plants. As in many of her peacock images, the elaborate tail feathers of the black peacock take up a large portion of the canvas. In 1849, Botke wrote about her fascination with birds, “My interest in birds was not sentimental, it was always what sort of pattern they made.”

About the Artist
Born to English parents in Chicago in 1883, Jessie Arms Botke spent much of her free time as a child sketching and painting. At the age of fourteen, she took art classes at the School of Art Institute of Chicago. When she graduated from high school, she enrolled as a full-time student at the Institute. During her summer vacations she participated in intensive painting workshops in Michigan and Maine, which led to her first exhibition at the Art Institute's American Annual in 1904. After school, Botke worked in wall decoration and book illustration and refined her skills as a decorative artist. Inspired by an exhibition of friezes, decorations, and tapestries from Herter Looms of New York, Botke moved there in 1911 and immersed herself in the city's artistic climate. Several years later, she was employed at Herter Looms where she worked on tapestry design, painted panels and friezes, and began to specialize in painting birds.
In 1914, Jessie Hazel Arms met design artist Cornelius Botke in Chicago, and they married a year later. Together, the Botkes worked as artists in Chicago, San Francisco, and Carmel, CA, and they traveled often to New York City and Europe. They both worked on major art commissions and held their largest joint exhibition in 1942 at the Ebell Club, a conservative club for the advancement of women and culture. When Jessie's eyesight began to fail in 1961, she continued painting small watercolors until surgery and contact lenses restored her vision and she resumed painting full-time. A stroke in 1967 destroyed her ability to paint, and she died four years later at the age of 88.

Blog Tour

The Blog Tour deadline is January 29th.

Links must be added to the Art Bead Scene flickr page

 

 

 where you upload your entry.

The Blog Tour will be on January 31tst.

Monthly Challenge Winners

Winners will be randomly chosen

from all the qualifying entries on February 1st.

Our Sponsors

Our Sponsors this month are Erin Siegel and Sarah Hornik.

Please visit us tomorrow to see the prizes!

 

 

I love peacock feathers so this was a fun challenge.

 

I have been so sick and unable to create for months.

 

Except for very small things.

 

Last night I laid in bed thinking I cant miss out on this one.

 

I miss my clay and had an idea that was

 

floating around in my head and saying get up you can do it.

 

Sick or not, pain or not I was going to create!!!

 

I got to work and made a peacock polymer clay feather cane

 

I had this great filigree bead that was a peacock for a base

 

That I was going to actually make my daughter a necklace with

 

sometime in the future because she loves peacock feathers too.

 

So this was the perfect time and I love the way it turned out.

 

Creating filled my heart with joy.

 

I have not felt this good since November

 

Creating and Polymer have a healing hand at times.

 

I just hope that after a few days of rest now I can keep on creating

 

 

 

Here is my version of

 

Black Peacocks with Japanese Persimmons

 

Polymer clay canes created by me in the design of a peacock feather

 

I have made peacock feathers before but this one was a little different.

 

I used a razor knife and shaved the feathers so they have a real

 

feather feel around the edges just not as soft :) ..

 

 

 

Added the extra Peacock Feather eyes to the bottom row.

 

Found some sterling filigree circles that I attached to the bottom.

 

Gave it a unique look, not the normal peacock.

Sculpted the body from the wonderful polyform products

Peacock Pearl clay. Love that color

Added a swarovski Sapphire for eyes.

 

I don't waste so I used the extra clay to make swirled

 

polymer briolettes in the peacock feather colors

 

and clay briolettes in golden hues.

 

 

Beaded up a few strands of matte gold seed beads

Ugh I do not like seed beading. My shaky hands prefer to

toss them all over the floor instead of the string. lol

But I managed two accent colors, one matte and one clear.

Attached my briolettes.

 

Added a antique gold toggle clasp and a extra briolette to finish it off.

 

Baked up, buffed up and puffed up pretty as a peacock.

 

Hope you enjoyed him as much as I did creating him.

 

Hugs to all.

 

Be sure to check out everyone else that joined in.

 

I have not looked yet but I know they are probably amazing.

 

Here is the link : Artbeadscene Flicker Group

 

Special Note. Found out today Jan 31 that my

 

entry made front page of the blog tour.

 

Here is the link:

 

http://www.artbeadscene.blogspot.com/2013/01/january-monthly-blog-tour.html

 

 Thank you ArtbeadScene for including me.

 

Im honored that you enjoyed my necklace.

 

Here is what they said

 

"Kim Idalski of Kimi's Jewelry (above) squeaked in at the last minute. We are so glad that she joined us, especially since she has not been feeling well. Being creative and with your friends is a great medicine, don't you think? I am very impressed that Kim made this intricate polymer clay peacock! It looks like it is articulated and has a great movement to it. So regal!"

Just a fun fact about the necklace. Every layer of feathers is connected

 

by jump rings so they all move. It flows and

 

has lots of movement. It was very fun to make. :)

 

Congrats to all the amazing artists that made the

 

blog tour. Gorgeous creations.

 

I will stop by every blog soon.

 

Hugs to all and happy creating.

 

 

 

Thank you for stopping by and supporing me

 

and Handmade Art

 

I miss my blogging and blogger followers

 

I have been very sick and just recovering

 

from another surgery and have two more

 

comeing up soon.

 

I will be creating to heal.

 

So if you need a custom order.

 

Im your girl. Nothing motivates me more

 

than a customer to create for.

 

I will be doing a giveaway this week.

 

Be sure to stop back. You have to participate to win.

 

It will be fun easy and painless I promise.

 

Thought for the day: Free yourself from those that bring you down,

Forgive them for they cannot forgive themselves. It will make your heart heal.

 

 

Create With Heart, Love, Color and Bling