Tonja's Polyclay Corner

Faux Fun

April30

When I started claying doing faux stone techniques was one of my favorite thing to do. I used translucent clay and added inclusions like embossing powders and dried flowers. Later I tried adding alcohol inks to tint the clay and it worked very nicely. A combination of the 3 would be a great experiment. I’ll have to add that to the list.

One of my favorite pieces was this inro wearable vessel I made many years ago.

Faux Stone Dragonfly Inro

The body looks sort of like rough moonstone. The leaves faux green jade, the dragonfly purple jade.

Some of my other works

Faux Bone

Faux Jade

More Mokume Gane

Lapis Donuts

Faux Retro Fabric - Barkcloth

Faux Turquoise

I found a great link to many faux tutorials
http://beadyeyedbrat.com/tutesfaux.html

posted under From My Workbench, Interesting Techniques, Tutorials

2 Comments to

“Faux Fun”

On May 1st, 2009 at 5:26 am Kristina Says:
These are all fabulous – especially the faux retro fabric.
On May 2nd, 2009 at 5:34 pm Cindy Lietz, Polymer Clay Tutor Says:
Hey I was going to comment on the faux retro fabric! You beat me to it! It’s very cool. I’ve made every one of the other faux’s before, even faux fabric, but the texture on top really takes it to the next level!