Today, apart from sitting out in the sun for a while - and feeding next door's cat - I messed about with some clay images I had done whilst at my workshop on Saturday.Above is one of my favourite images when stamping in clay. I think it might be an Elusive Images stamp but I could be wrong. Am sure someone will let me know. Anyhow, it is a town scene, Christmas undoubtedly, and when imprinted on black clay and dusted with DuoBlue it looks fabulous. As there was no black clay on Saturday I had to be content with doing it on brown. I went over it with goodness knows how many colours of Pearlex and it came out a sort of greenish shade with copper windows. Still prefer the DuoBlue.
Some other images I liked were from one of Elusive Images' African plates with the heads of four ladies on. They look really good when impressed in clay. I dusted them with Perfect Pearls 'Perfect Bronze' and then I made a background on a piece of Greyboard (Paddy had tried to find a photo frame for me which would take the four images - no luck!) which I covered in Gesso and then painted using Stewart Gill's 'Mandarin' (True Colour range). I put some scrim on and scrunched some bits of it up and added torn pieces of mulberry paper which someone sent me from Africa some time ago. I also stamped "I dream of Africa" (Non Sequitur) on some copper clay (Premo) and cured it before attaching to the picture.The frame was also cut from Greyboard and is 1 cm wide with tiny triangles stuck on which then has aluminium foil over the top and is finally burnished. This is then coloured with Alcohol Inks in Copper with touches of Black brushed across the top.
Not sure what I think of it but I did enjoy doing it. Now will it qualify as a collage?
