Made a Stonewall inspired diorama : )
Please excuse the sudden lack of progress photos mid craft, I forgot to take them.
I started with clay rectangles, I don’t have much to say except making bricks out of polymer clay is extremely tedious.
I then beat them up with a rock until they looked vaguely like chewed gum.
Here’s an ominous photo I took while deciding the layout.
And then I painted them. After the first paint I kind of dry brushed more impatiently wet blended tiny amounts of orange on to the bricks. Which is why they aren’t maroon like in the first photo.
And now I completely stop taking progress photos.
Suddenly I’m done! The grout(?) in-between the bricks is made of modpodge, white paint, and a ridiculous amount of sand, dirt, and small pebbles.
And then obviously I painted some flags on the bricks, included are the trans flag, lesbian flag, rainbow flag, bear flag, and the leather flag. And also a brick with a violet, lavender, and a green carnation. Violets are a lesbian symbol, lavender is a queer symbol, and green carnations are a gay symbol.
A fake receipt made from some paper while I was bored at work, a weird plastic thing made from some tape also made at work, some small cigarettes made from rolled paper, and some glass I picked up when I was like 6 and then stuck in a bottle.
Clay version of the sign the police left behind at the Stonewall Inn after the raid, it’s a bit messy because I’m impatient and never let things dry properly.
More glass and fake paper trash!
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