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This doesn't really fit in this section but it is pen related. This is a
coffee can covered in Granitex. The heron is a TLS transfer and there are
two other transfers, of a lake and waterlilies, around the can. Once I started
my mission to cover all the pens in the house with clay, I needed
something to keep them in. :)
The pens that I've used so far are Bic Round Stics, Papermate Flexgrip Ultras, and Pilot Better Grips. I wasn't pleased with the Pilot Better Grips since they had a tendency to warp and I think the ends melted since I always had to trim the ink cartridge to get it to fit after baking. The Bics work well and are cheap and the Papermates have a nice silver tip which unscrews so that the ink can be replaced.
Click on the images for a closer look.
My most recent pens.. These are all derived from a blue and pearl Skinner blend.
The pen on the right is mokume gane. The other two pens are made from mokume scraps marbled together and the pen on
the left has a little bit of acrylic gold paint.
Marbled pens made after I got my pasta machine. It was so nice not to try to
roll out a thin even sheet of clay by hand.
Mokume Gane pens.
See How-to links for sites with directions on this technique.
The pen on the left was textured with a plastic feather charm and then a
layer of Pearl-ex Interference Gold powder was put over the purple clay to
highlight the texture. The next pen has a dragon at the top that was made
from a mold of an old necklace I had. The two pens on the right were made
with my version of Balinese Filigree. Strings of clay are extruded from a
clay gun and used to form coils and patterns.
When I got my pasta machine, one of the first things I tried was a Skinner
blend from white to green. I then rolled part of it up to create the leaf cane
seen on the middle pen. Then I laid a bunch of slices on a black sheet and tried
covering the first pen. Unfortunately, I didn't join the seam properly and the
sheet was too loose on the pen. So I rolled it on my work surface to try to make it
fit better. It loosened more! So now I had a loose tube of clay around the pen instead
of a cover and it started to distort. So I twisted it to take up the slack and it
became a green zebra pen instead of a leaf pen. :) For the middle pen I just laid
overlapping slices of leaf cane on it. I rather liked the raised leaves so I didn't try to
smooth it. The third pen is the second version of my leaf cane.
For directions on how to make a Skinner blend, see my How-to links.
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