November Christmas Mixed Media Clay Board

Belated post about our last workshop of 2016, we had a great time

creating a festive board using ceramic and air dry clay

to form mosaic style tiles along with other embellishments.

Here is mine, I used a long board.

 

 

 

 

All the lovely ladies of our group showing their

nearly completed boards. Liz is missing as she left early.

As you can see there are lots of different colour combinations.

 

 

 

Our craft group will be back together in February to start 2017

with lots of ideas to share. Until next time

Harston Mixed Media Clay Mosaic Workshop - September 2016

Here to share the results of a workshop I ran in September for our craft club members,

we used Air dry Clay by Fimo, this particular clay can be cured in a microwave

which is ideal to create, cure, paint and glue to a board on the same day

instead of waiting for the clay to dry within 24 hours.

 

Here is one of my board samples.

 

 

Another which was my original sample

 

 

 

Tanya enjoyed putting all these tiles together.

 

 

 

Lisa had fun and included family names here and there

with a space for a family photo to add later

 

 

 

Jane's board is fab and I love the monochrome colours used

with a pop of red.

Here is the finished board

 

 

Jane's board before painting.

 

 

Pamela took her time to paint her tiles

 

 

 

and brought her nearly finished board along for us to see in October

for this photo.

 

 

 

Must give a huge credit for the inspiration for my boards to Laurie Mika and her fabulous book Mixed Media Mosaics that sadly I think is out of print now.  Though she uses

polymer clay and I adapted some of her techniques to use for air dry clay, it was still more than inspirational.  Until next time.