(Please ignore the dinosaur, that’s my attempt at a faux ceramic using sculpy glaze mixed with acrylic paint.)
First, I tried rolling out a flat sheet of white clay, applying my inks and then cutting shapes. The alcohol made the clay brittle though so it broke into smaller pieces.I baked the tiny shards to make colorful mosaic tiles because I liked the colors. Then I used the baked pieces to make a cat in a black oval of clay and baked everything a second time.
For my next experiment, I cut my shapes in advance, applied the alcohol inks, sprinkled on some mica powders, and then baked the whole thing. They came out lovely. With two I then used white embossing powder to add a dimensional pattern and painted the third with acrylics.
All in all it was a fun experiment I’ll definitely play with more in the future.
Ignore the dinosaur? Are you crazy? It’s adorable!
The unicorn has an ethereal feel to it, and I think the mosaic cat is very cool.
Embossing and adding alcohol inks to the clay created some amazing effects! Wonderful magents all around!
Hah, ignore the dinosaur only because he doesn’t have a spec of alcohol ink. I’m definitely going to play with embossing polymer clay more. There are so many possibilities.
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