Make art your fashion!

Hello world! :))

I hope you've enjoyed your holidays, being still in January the first month of the year, guess I'm still in time to wish you a wonderful year full of happiness and success!

As posting all my new creations would be a difficult task ('cause now I have many new works, mostly created with air dry clay) I thought it would be a nice idea to post a video dedicated to my romantic creations, as we are getting closer and closer to Valentine's day! The video is really short, so if you're looking for some unique gift ideas for Valentine's day, or even your beloved's birthday, you won't regret watching this video.

I'm trying to make art enter into the everyday life, into the jewelry you put on, so you can wear an artwork, a piece made with lots of love and care, a unique creation which carries a huge amount of positive energies and pure feelings. It's not really easy, 'cause many people still prefer to pay for precious metals, than for precious unique artworks, but I'm sure art will find its way sooner or later, and it's art itself which will help me through this way.

Please feel free to ask any questions about my creations, I'll be more than happy to reply!

Back with new creations made of new material: air dry stone clay!

Hi there!
After almost a year being away busy with my creations, house works and my full time job as a mother, Magics of Creation is on Blogger again. I've been active on Etsy, Facebook and every now and then on my WordPress blog, now I can manage things better and so hopefully this blog can continue to update its posts :)
There's been a great change in my path during my absence on Blogger, and that's the materials I use for my creations.
I've almost put away polymer clay and now mostly use air dry clay and stones. The air dry clay I use is completely natural, very soft and pleasant to work with, and it hardens after drying with no need to bake. So clean and so safe! I love it, and I won't ever give it up!
Here I link some of the photos from my Etsy shop, hope you like this new generation of my creations! :)

OOAK Smiling star sculpture pendant, one of a kind air dry stone clay hanging decoration

OOAK Handmade air dry clay pendant, one of a kind heart portrait sculpture pendant

OOAK moon portrait sculpture as a pendant, one of a kind air dry stone clay moon pendant completely handmade

Lovers written on the stone! OOAK air dry stone clay sculpture on river stone.

The third one, yogi doll!

Here is my third experience in making a doll with polymer clay, and the first time making a doll with hair! I used a good quality mohair for his hair, and had to do several attempts and fail several times, until I finally came up with this.

 

 

This is how he looked first, when he had a short haircut, as it didn't have a beautiful appearance on top of his head I cleaned away all (using the liquid to remove nail polish), then tried to glue longer hair layer by layer and with more attention this time. 

My second experience with polymer clay, tiniest doll!

Here are some photos of my second experience sculpting a polymer clay miniature doll, indeed this doll is really miniature! Its height is only 1 inch (3 cm)!
I love the tranquil expression on its face, and the peace which it transmits.

  

Check out my Etsy shop and send me a message if you're interested. I can always create a new listing to make a custom miniature doll for you!

Polymer clay pros and cons and my first experience of working with it

Hello! In this blog I'll share my artworks using different materials, my work experiences and useful tips that I get to know by working or by searching on internet to improve my creations.
I loved to create sculptures out of ordinary water based clay (still love it!), it was the only material which I could access with no problems. Recently I discovered a new material: polymer clay! Though it's not a natural substance and there are things you should be careful of for your safety while using the unbaked clay, there are many benefits to it too:

•  The most important of all for me is that it doesn't dry! At least not in a month or two. Being so much busy during the day I can't always work on the same project for several days. While my ordinary clay projects began drying, even being water sprayed and covered by a plastic bag, my polymer clay projects stay there without any change for weeks!

• The second benefit is that I don't have to travel to get my works fired in a special kiln. All I needed was a small electric oven, and my polymer clay projects are baked in less than 30 minutes with only 130 °C temperature! That's too cool! I keep this little oven on the balcony, so the gases produced during the baking wouldn't create any risk.
• The third benefit is that they can be colored so easily using normal Acrylic colors, while colors can be fixed by baking the work in the oven, they can always be cleaned using the normal liquid you use to remove your nail polishes!
•  Another pro is that great detail can be added on small scales of polymer clays. While for normal water base clay I couldn't achieve this easily, maybe because I'm self-taught and haven't yet discovered the right techniques, or maybe because of the consistency of normal clay. However I find creating small scaled and detailed projects much more possible than any other material I know.

Talked about the pros, but there are also cons. What I personally find as a problem working on small scaled projects is that while you try to add detail on a part of your sculpture, you may suddenly notice that the other part have been deformed under your fingers pressure while you were too concentrated on the details of the other part of the sculpture.

Here is my first polymer clay work, a realistic miniature baby doll. There are defects, but as the first work I just love it and I hope to learn more by working more, so that I can correct these defects in the future projects.

 

This doll is now available on my Etsy shop with a special price!