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How do I design a project?
Depends on what sort of thing is being made. I don't know what is going to manifest with the Natasha Beads until I chop those canes up and toss or layer them, then make the bead, cure, sand and finish. Then I get to see if that particular mix of chop is worth replicating again. I'm the last to know what's going on with the beads. There's times when I just want to do ethnic food from one country. I'll collect pictures from the web to do collages so I can get the color right. Then I'll mix clay to get those colors and then make the mini meals. If I'm sculpting, I collect pictures from the web and do collages of that actor and work on the portrait from the collages. LEXX-Home/ed-lexx.htm Ellen Durbin who plays Giggerota The Wicked, in Lexx is the latest portrait doll I'm doing and I'm doing her in the Giggorata outfit, with the two tone hair. As for her pose, there's a part of the first Lexx movie, "I Worship His Shadow" http://us.imdb.com/Title?0178149 where she escapes execution and jumps down this tunnel tube passage way. I like that pose so I'm thinking room box. With doing portrait dolls of known actors, in known characters, replicating scenes from a movie a lot of the work is already done for me. The look of the room box, the character's clothing and hair, what they look like. So there's not a lot of design work. The only time I sketch or draw ideas for polymer clay is when I'm standing in line somewhere, or am in transit, and I don't have the clay there to do the thought experiment. Just write it down and give it effort at home. Much of the experiments in clay has no plan, as such. Like that folded clay dickie pendant things. No plan on that, just experimenting with the clay and see what happens. If I'm doing a cane I use a picture, like with Sassy the cat. One could draw their own pictures and lay plastic over them and start building up the design in snakes and sheets. It really is much nicer to use your own original drawings for cane patterns and image transfer, no problem with reselling and permissions violations. Now I'm wondering if MargieN in Florida put plans together for her Egyptian room box. Folks will just have to share their process. Funny thing about room boxes, sometimes it just starts out like a real room, blank walls, floor and ceiling. So you make what calls to you. I like wood paneling in room boxes, adhesive shelf cover or with clay sheets. Then there's shelves, furniture and accessories, then you put little people in the box. Just like the Golden MerMaid. There was no plan with her, but I had a bunch of sea side items, sea shells, sea weed, a plate of shrimp cocktail...LOL, mini abalone, odds and ends. I wanted to do the folded abalone for the Golden Mermaid's new outfit because she was covered with gold and crimson and she got put in a drawer and was sorely neglected. Then with the bumping and moving about her gold and crimson outfit got crapped out, so we needed to cover it with something. Biz-Archive/Faux/abalone/MiniScene/Box4GoldMaid-thms.htm A lot of what I do is without a plan. I'll play with clay, something like the folded abalone will manifest and I'll have one flash, "That would be so cool as a cocktail dress." and after a moment, "On a Mermaid" and from there you move forward because it amused you. I gathered up the sea side items that were already finished. Got a cigar box, rolled out sheets for the walls and the floors, dug out that neglected Mermaid and the rest is caught in the pictures there. I think that when you're doing room boxes, filled with miniatures and dolls, it's a lot like that. You'll see something that triggers an idea and then you'll move on that idea. The trick is to have your supplies handy. I have tools, rulers, cloth, leather, feathers, hair, furniture, mini paintings, hinges and Woodsies, glue, tape, and clay within reach of my work table. Polymer clay is but a part of the mini scene equation. If I have an idea I can grab a cigar box, pull out some sheets already pressed, and start filling the box with that idea. A bit of cloth, a handful of feathers, some clay leaves, a flower or 10, put a face in there somewhere, spray some adhesive in the air like you just don't care and then toss glitter at it. Then jump up and down and hollar "YEAH!" no matter what the hour. LOL Ya, that's the ticket. xoxo NJ |
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