Polymer Clay -
Mokume Gane Box
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Mokume Gane Box
Tin Altoids box, Premo, Sculpey III polymer clay; glitter, polyurethane finish |
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Polymer Clay -
Mokume Gane Box
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Mokume Gane Box
Tin Altoids box, Premo, Sculpey III polymer clay; glitter, polyurethane finish |
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Top View
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Artist's Psychobabble - take with a grain of salt. Form your own impressions.
"Mokume Gane" is adapted from an ancient Japanese technique of metalworking and is widely used for polymer clay.Thin sheets of contrasting colors of clay are stacked up and impressed or pushed up or folded/smooshed, then part of the clay is sliced or sanded off so you can see a pattern made with the different layers. This box uses dark blue, metallic pearl blue, pearl green, pearly purple, and black with glitter inclusions. The cut sheet was passed through a pasta machine to thin and smooth it out, carefully fitted and smoothed over the top and bottom of a metal Altoids box, baked, and sanded smooth. It was then coated with polyurethane and baked again to harden the finish.
All images copyright 2008 Kendra Harness/Lost Angeles Rubber Works