Accepted in to college and new jewellery

Hello, hello :) The past two months have been very busy for me.. Very busy! I'm planning my wedding I have also been accepted in to an art course in college along with other things. Not that I'm complaining, but I haven't posted anything for a wee while so I thought I'd just let you know why I have been quiet for a while. 

I bought some more polymer clay after my college interview, which went great I showed the teacher who was interviewing me some of my artwork and jewellery; which she loved! I was quite taken back by her reaction because she just loved the detail and styles. It feels good when someone likes what you make but articulately tell you why they love it.  Especially when that person is an art teacher and who is herself very talented. 

With the polymer clay I bought I made two pendants, don't worry my darklings I will make more! Just calm breath in and out.. Better? Okay lets get back to the pendants.

3D Raven Skull Cameo

Cameo pendants like this are very popular amongst Gothic women, I myself love them and enjoy making them. Raven skulls are easy enough to make either by using a mould or hand sculpting them, I prefer to hand sculpt them as I feel it just adds more quality to the item, that and I have more control over the detail. 

The wonderful thing with cameo Gothic jewellery is you can make so many different styles and not just with ravens. Bats, skulls, spiders, dragons, fangs, wiccan symbols, Celtic designs, crosses and much, much more the possibilities are endless :)

I will be making more cameos with the styles I described above and not just in black and white, I will use a varied pallet of colours along with some pigment powders or paints. 

Dichroic Glass and Polymer Clay Pendant

I love dichroic glass! It is so beautiful and just adds volumes to the jewellery I make. I used this glass in some of my silver work and then decided to use the glass with my polymer clay jewellery. If it can make silver look enchanting then it will look awesome on a polymer clay jewellery and it really does. 

The good thing about this glass is it can stand temperatures up to seven hundred degrees so being in the oven at one hundred and thirty degrees is a walk in the park. The glass is very easy to work with when using polymer clay, silver on the other hand can be difficult if you don't know what you are doing. 

Here are the pendants I made with the glass and as you can see the pendant bewitches the senses. These are simple yet effective designs I decided make, I used a texture sheet on one of the pendants along with some powder pigment to add an antique

warmth to the overall design. The other pendant was very simple just the plain black background with the glass in the middle and a simple swirl border around the centre.   

I'm sorry that this was a rather short update but hopefully I can write longer and more detailed blogs in the future, anyway I hoped you enjoyed it and Keep It Spooky Darklings :)