UPDATED: I'll Stop Whining Now - Marilyn's Mokume Gane Technique #4 - Polymer Clay

Some of you may remember a couple of posts ago where I was complaining about the colors I picked for my latest batch of Marilyn Ray Knopic's tutorial for Mokume Gane. But there is NEVER any waste with PC so I took those uggs and made them pretty again! I am very happy with the redo! I added some liquid Kato Polyclay to the front of the ones I didn't like and rolled out flat pieces to cover. Trim, polish, and VOILA!

This one is actually one of my LEAST favorite but I still like it a lot. It reminds me of an abalone shell. In fact, many of these do. I have a hover extension for Chrome that lets me point my mouse at a photograph and a larger image appears. If you don't have that, just click on the image to see it bigger. :)

The ones below (and the one above are not covered in resin yet. There is NO finish whatsoever! I did do some shaping with my rotary tool around the edges and glad I took the extra time.  I just gave them a polishing (220 and 2500 grit) and buffing with my rotary tool, for less than a minute each on the buffer. I found out that the lighter the touch when buffing, the better the shine! And in my opinion, the fact that it is Kato helped it shine more easily. This is the "front" (some of these could use either side for the front!) Doesn't it remind you of an abalone shell? If I had used pearl clay it would have looked even more like one...These are all Kato clay again.

The back...love those fine lines...

Front...aren't the colors awesome? These remind me of the painted desert rocks...

Here is the other side of the one above.

Really like how this one came out. The back is silver crackled foil leaf on black clay. You can't see the sides of these pendants but many of them show the very fine layering of the top colors. Neat effect. This stack was made with a variation on Marilyn's technique in that I added some Old Silver Inka Gold paint to the clay. I was advised to sandwich it inside layers of translucent, so I did. Then I added the foil leaf on the upper layer along with the inks. Hard to tell which shimmer is the Inka Gold but it's in there!

This one I used the rotary tool to trim off the edge...it was pretty rough before and I almost left it that way, but I am glad I shaped it. The buffing on this one came out great! I like this side the best. See the tiny "spiderweb"? :D

The reverse. The colors are a little muted in this one, but there is that abalone look again.

The shine on this one came out great! I wasn't pleased with where the original hole was so I filled it and need to redrill and use an eyelet in it still.

This is the other side of the one above.

Another one that looks like abalone shell. I love how it looks like layer after layer of shell!

Love the color in this one. The green is the Mermaid again...sort of an aqua color. I used Mountain Rose, Sunset Orange, Sunshine Yellow, and Wild Plum. The Lettuce nearly disappeared!

The opposite side.

This one got really shiny!

Side one.

The other side.

This is the first one pictured in this post that I put Magic Glos resin on.

A freehand shape. Resined again.

The other side. This is the other version of Marilyn's MG technique I tried with no black or white in it. Lovely color in this one...and yes, it is the dreaded Indigo! Not having all that black made it better, somehow...More of the foil shows through, as well, brightening it.

Same with this one.

The other side. I love the little star shape....faux spider web! :D And those colors! The Mountain Rose is a favorite of mine, as is the Sunset Orange.

Another with the no-black-or-white-clay MG tech. And the Indigo ink...and maybe even some of the (ew) Teakwood! I still like it, though. :)

The other side. I love the way it doesn't look round...it looks like it dips in on the left side...but that is an optical illusion. :)

Last one of this batch...for now! Love the colors! Forgot to drill holes before I resined it though...

Can't decide which side is the front. :) You can see the tiny faux spider webs on both sides with this one. SO, I am finally happy with those dark MG pendants I made! What do you think?

OH and an update I forgot to put on my last post, about the faux gold. I used my homemade clear stamping block polymer clay cutter for the leaves and flower petals. It works GREAT. See how evenly and THIN it cut? :) This photo kind of shows what I meant about making plain clay look like it has a gold reflection....

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