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{"id":15605,"date":"2012-06-04T03:16:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T10:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=15605"},"modified":"2013-07-03T18:15:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T01:15:55","slug":"faux-raku-elephant-by-lynda-dunham-watkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/faux-raku-elephant-by-lynda-dunham-watkins\/15605\/","title":{"rendered":"Faux Raku Elephant by Lynda Dunham-Watkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" alt=\"Faux Raku Elephant Lynda Dunham-Watkins - Polymer Clay Tutor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2012-06\/04-faux-raku-elephant-lynda-dunham-watkins.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"188\" \/><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Gallery<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(14 pics)<\/span>:<\/span> &#8220;I can tell you, I had more fun making this elephant than any sculpture that I&#8217;ve ever made.&#8221;<span style=\"color: #999999;\"> ~Lynda Dunham-Watkins<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><!--more--><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I read a saying once that said, &#8220;It is only the mediocre student who does not surpass his <em>(her)<\/em> master.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Now I am not suggesting that I&#8217;m a Polymer Clay Master by any stretch&#8230; or that any student that has not yet surpassed my skill level is in any way mediocre. But the saying does seem apropos in this case&#8230; where the student definitely has surpassed the teacher (which btw makes me feel very proud and excited).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em>Let me explain&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Lynda Dunham-Watkins is an accomplished mixed media artist who makes art dolls and animal sculptures. She became a member of the PcT Library to enhance her polymer clay skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In a recent email, Lynda shared some photos of an incredible Elephant Sculpt that she created using the Vol-014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutorial-faux-raku-pt2-deep-crackle-technique\/4788\/\">Deep Crackle Faux Raku<\/a> as a surface technique for the Elephant&#8217;s skin. As well, she sent photos of a Sculpted Cat and Rabbit which incorporates the Vol-028 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutorial-mixed-media-art-sheets-technique-video\/11266\/\">Art Sheets<\/a> along with a few other techniques as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: large; color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Faux Raku Elephant Plus A Couple Of Other Creations<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: large; color: #000000;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">by<\/span> Lynda Dunham-Watkins <\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(14 pics)<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\tjQuery(window).load(function() {\n\t\tjQuery('#pb_slideshow_slider-1').nivoSlider({\n\t\t\teffect: 'fade',\n\t\t\tslices: 15,\n\t\t\tanimSpeed: 500,\n\t\t\tpauseTime: 3000,\n\t\t\tdirectionNav: true,\n\t\t\tdirectionNavHide: false,\n\t\t\tcontrolNav: true,\n\t\t\tcontrolNavThumbs: false,\n\t\t\tcontrolNavThumbsFromRel: false,\n\t\t\tkeyboardNav: true,\n\t\t\tpauseOnHover: true,\n\t\t\tcaptionOpacity: 0.8\n\t\t});\n\t});\n<\/script>\n\n<div id=\"pb_slideshow_slider-container-1\" style=\" width: 575px;\" >\n<div id=\"pb_slideshow_slider-1\" class=\"nivoSlider\" style=\"width: 575px;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012-06-04-01-elephant_www.jpg\" alt=\"2012-06-04-01-elephant\" \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012-06-04-02-elephant_www.jpg\" alt=\"2012-06-04-02-elephant\" \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012-06-04-03-elephant_www.jpg\" alt=\"2012-06-04-03-elephant\" \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012-06-04-04-elephant_www.jpg\" alt=\"2012-06-04-04-elephant\" \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012-06-04-05-elephant_www.jpg\" alt=\"2012-06-04-05-elephant\" \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012-06-04-06-elephant_www.jpg\" alt=\"2012-06-04-06-elephant\" \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012-06-04-07-elephant_www.jpg\" alt=\"2012-06-04-07-elephant\" \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012-06-04-08-elephant_www.jpg\" alt=\"2012-06-04-08-elephant\" \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012-06-04-09-elephant_www.jpg\" alt=\"2012-06-04-09-elephant\" \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012-06-04-10-elephant_www.jpg\" alt=\"2012-06-04-10-elephant\" \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012-06-04-11-art-sheet_www.jpg\" alt=\"2012-06-04-11-art-sheet\" \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012-06-04-12-art-sheet_www.jpg\" alt=\"2012-06-04-12-art-sheet\" \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012-06-04-13-cat_www.jpg\" alt=\"2012-06-04-13-cat\" \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012-06-04-14-rabbit_www.jpg\" alt=\"2012-06-04-14-rabbit\" \/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#pb_slideshow_slider-1.nivoSlider {\n\theight: 300px;\n       margin-bottom: 20px;\n}\n#pb_slideshow_slider-container-1 { margin-right: auto; 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font-size: medium;\">I should have sent you pictures before but just didn&#8217;t. I refer back to your tutorials more than any other reference materials that I use, well&#8230; maybe I use anatomy references more when I began a sculpt, but when I&#8217;m ready to finish, you are the site I go to and mull over the effect that I want. Most of my sculpts are figurative and I can&#8217;t use this with them, but I&#8217;m having so much fun doing these that I may focus on this type sculpt for awhile.I have visions of other animals and people, too. And, I want to make some drop dead beads also.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: medium;\">When I first thought about an elephant, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/make-your-own-crackle-paints-polymer-clay-tutorial-video\/13758\/\">crackle paint<\/a> thingy was in my mind for his skin, but then I remembered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutorial-faux-raku-pt2-deep-crackle-technique\/4788\/\">Raku technique<\/a>, and I couldn&#8217;t wait to get to the point of making his skin. I can tell you, I had more fun making this elephant than any sculpture that I&#8217;ve ever made. Some places I tore the clay, and others, I used most of an entire sheet. Early on, I had a problem with curing the clay to the proper point. I was using a heat gun. When it didn&#8217;t crackle, I rolled it thin again, backed it with the black clay and re-cured it&#8230; worked in places that I needed a subtle effect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: medium;\">I had already made the cat and the rabbit. I used the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutorial-mixed-media-art-sheets-technique-video\/11266\/\">art sheet<\/a> for the cat&#8217;s underskin and then made a cane using an Amish quilt pattern for the final layer, adding copper Premo to frame the turquoise chips embedded along his back. The skin itself was so pretty&#8230; almost hated to cover it up. The rabbit was the first sculpt I made using this idea, and I love him! I&#8217;m including photos of the art sheet that I used to cover it with, and I&#8217;m not sure which colors I used, everything I had!! LOL! It doesn&#8217;t seem to matter which colors of ink you use, the result is awesome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: medium;\">They are all sculpted of Darwi which is a stone air dry clay on a strong wire armature fleshed out with foil. I coated the dried sculpt with TLS before applying the &#8216;skin&#8217; made with Premo and your technique and then baked it, embellished with more PearlX powders, sanded it when appropriate, polished it, and sprayed it with Donna and Doug&#8217;s fantastic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/craft-spray-fixative-polymer-clay-safe\/3659\/\">PYMII spray<\/a> that I use on all my sculpts. Whew! I had fun. Oh, the work in progress on the elephant, the cat, and the rabbit are all documented on my blog which I&#8217;ve provided the link below. Thanks so much.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">~Lynda Dunham-Watkins<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Web Site:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyndawatkinsartdolls.com\" class=\"external external_icon\" target=\"_blank\">www.lyndawatkinsartdolls.com<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong> Blog:<\/strong> www.lyndadunham-watkins.blogspot.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">By the way, if you did not get a chance to see the last special Gallery feature, here is a direct link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/rose-garden-earrings-polymer-clay-rose-petal-jewelry\/15486\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rose Garden Earrings<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Open Mic<\/strong><\/span>:<\/span> Please feel free to use the comment section below as a forum for discussing whatever is on your mind. Ask questions&#8230; post tutorial requests&#8230; share stories about your latest creations&#8230; or just say HI! This is your community! The more you put in, the more it gives back.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 575px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 200px;\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cindy Lietz Signature\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/cindy-sig.jpg\" width=\"114\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Tutor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutor.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallery (14 pics): &#8220;I can tell you, I had more fun making this elephant than any sculpture that I&#8217;ve ever made.&#8221; ~Lynda Dunham-Watkins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2614,2602,2623,2671,2679,2629],"class_list":["post-15605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-polymer-clay-crackle","tag-faux-ceramics-pottery-glass-surfaces","tag-member-project-photos","tag-miniatures-foodies-sculpted-figures-dolls-fairies-trolls","tag-patterns-sheets-color-gradients-mokume-gane","tag-pets-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}