The talented , wonderful Hector Vera, and a good friend of mine, returned recently to Studio Amara and taught a workshop in making faux polymer turquoise. Ive always steered away from making faux stones in polymer as I thought " Why would you? "Now, those of you who know me or have attended my classes know Im a polymer addict, its one of my favourite mediums for creating so this might be difficult to understand my thinking. I suppose I thought that the real stones are just so beautiful and one should not try to mess with this however I 'm happy to say Hector has changed my life! Being able to make your own stones gives you the opportunity to have a piece of jewellery with the stones, stones exactly the shape , size and color you want rather than making do with what you can source. Being a control freak this is a nice option to have.
In the class , we used another kitchen tool. This time it was the food processor. I was extremely happy as I had just bought another one from our local Reviva store. My preloved Breville Whiz set me back the large sum of $ 8.00. These days, I almost have as many kitchen gadgets in my studio as I do my kitchen.
With the room looking like a cooking class as we all busily chopped our clay into tiny pieces which were then shaped into gorgeous stones. Here are pictures of what our students made that day.
Thank you Hector and all who attended that day. Hector will return later this year to teach a complex caning class. Apologies that my finished piece is not shown yet! Im working on this at the moment. I will post once completed.Promise.
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