Here's an early phase of my latest project. I started it to enter in Bead and Button's 2017 Bead Dreams Competition, but I didn't get it done in time. I'm thinking if I do a really good job on it I can enter it next year. For the category I'm going to enter the piece must be 85% polymer clay. It's going to be a poker game inside the chicken coop.
At this stage, I've made most of the players - the fox, five chickens, and a mouse - as well as the inverted pails that two of the chickens are standing on and the straw bale on which the game will be played.
I've sculpted and baked the pieces, then I attempted to antique them, which I where I began to run into trouble. This is a technique that I've never been too successful with. You have to completely seal the polymer clay or the antiquing medium soaks right in and can't be rubbed off. So I sealed each piece with two coats of satin finish acrylic varnish. Then I mixed acrylic paint with Golden air brush medium which I understand to be an acrylic medium.
I had my usual few instances of places that I hadn't properly sealed. But, worst of all is that for some reason the antiquing mixture that I used ended up giving the pieces a gloss finish which I don't like at all. Plus, the fox is no so dark that I'm not happy with it.
For tomorrow, I'll have to think of a way to correct these problems.
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