Yes, Yes I love making wings

Oh its good to be here and I have another fun tutorial for all of you to try out or share with friends.  I do have a confession and that is for a very long time I never enjoyed making wings for my polymer clay dolls.  I was never happy but I made them until I kept trying out just about everything I had in my kitchen to everything I might find outside.  I have never stopped exploring and till this day my thoughts are always opened for something a little different.  I hope all of you will enjoy this one and even explore more with it and come up with more ideas.  One idea only branches to another and another and another.  Sharing is expansion to thought.

Play Play Play, Expand Expand Expand, you will never feel stuck

Hi everyone!  Im sharing with all of you just something I played around with yesterday after class.  In this experiment I'm still using real cleaned leaves.  But my mediums are different.  I'm not only one who loves to sculpt but I love to experiment.  I love creating and making things different.  I get way to bored if I just keep using the same methods and the same style with certain mediums. When I sculpt I have many methods not just one.  I found this to be very helpful for me that is because doing one method all the time I kept making the same things over and not changing.  I know it may sound weird to some but it works for me and not only me I found it to be very open when having a class.  I could have a class of eight lets say and out of the eight I found in each one they were all different.  One understood it one way and another something else.  So, all my crazy methods of sculpting has truly come in handy to share and to expand in this creative world we live in.  If any of you would like to discuss anything I may post please feel free to do so.  Remember we are all co- creators when we share.

Love using these real leaves and this one is the Pebeo Prisme Fantasy Paints

Hi everyone yes popping in for a bit. Been real busy as usual. Some of you wanted to see the wings with the Pebeo Prisme Fantasy paints. So, I put one together for you to see and then you can see if its something you would like to try yourself. I just did a commission piece using these paints for wings and I have to say they are the most gorgeous paints. Its a real short video and its pictures but you will see what they can look like. Thank you everyone and hope all are creating.

It's almost a butterfly wing with feel, texture,looks has been my goal

What a beautiful day and it keeps getting better and better.  I hope everyone is feeling the fullness of life.  I didn't get a chance to post a picture of another wing I had been testing out.  If you have joined my Facebook fan page I did post it there.  I try to keep this blog full of information too but sometimes I just have to much to do.  The reason we are starting to see different ways of making wings is because I have a commission piece to do and my client wants me to come up with wings that really look and feel like butterfly wings.  Yep, back to the same drawing board of mine for some years LOL.  But I truly am happy with what Im sharing with all of you here.  I have a few stumbling blocks with it but I think I can figure it out.  By using real and dry flowers as you can see in this picture you have such wonderful veining and if you could just feel it.  It totally feels just like a butterfly wing.  Im just having a little trouble finding a sealer that just wont leave any gloss and no plastic texture.  If any of you use a sealer and it would be a matt could you share what it is.  Im always use Liquitex Matte but its giving me a little shine.  Anyone with something that you might think will work?  I would love to hear.

Another method boiled, liquid bleach, real leaves makes fairy wings

Hi everyone hope your creating and having loads of fun. I have put together a quick tutorial another little different method using real cleaned and clorox bleach to make beautiful wings. Take a look and hope to see all of you real soon.
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Class is about to begin lady friends are gathering for a fun day!

Hello  everyone and its going to be another beautiful and fun day.  Beautiful people are gathering for class and we are going to be playing with wings again.  Now if some of you aren't following me on my Facebook fan page you might click over there here's the link https://www.facebook.com/Fairysnmypond-FIMP-by-artist-Barbara-England-357717437684726/?ref=settings I don't always post everything in my blog.  I really try to but I'm very busy with class's and commissions as well.  Many wonderful things going on in my life, extremely fun. I posted some experiments we were playing with for wings.  Here's a picture of one.  It was so much fun yesterday and all the brainstorming we all were doing was far more exciting then anything.  I do love this sharing and I have such a wonderful group of people like me.  Love you all and have the most wonderful day because tomorrow will even be better.

Oh, boy found time and yes here is part one prepping and cleaning real leaves

Oh, boy I got to take pictures while giving a class so I was able to share with all of you here how I prep and clean real leaves. Stay tuned for Part two and I'm going to show how I make the pretty.