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I've been working on a proposal that will teach how to make a Bald Eagle Feather polymer clay cane and use the slices from the cane in one or more projects. The cane is shown left. When sliced a small, faux Bald Eagle Feather is produced, shown lower right in the photo. The feathers can vary in size based on where they are cut from the cane.
My bright idea was this. Print some very tiny artwork using a color laser printer and transfer the tiny images onto the very small faux Bald Eagle feathers. Like so much in life, things are never as easy as you might think them to be.
The first attempt failed for one really good reason. There is no white paint in a laser printer, the white of the paper creates the white and light colors. The first transfer had a very dark center vein running through the image making it 'unreadable'.
After thinking and discarding some ideas, this one came up. Cover the vein with some white clay where the main part of the image will go.
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The new small Peej Shaper came in handy for this next step. The smooth steel rolled the edges of the very thin white into the feather quickly. The same tool smoothed the feather from top to bottom.
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This attempt was much more satisfying. The paper was torn to fit with extra paper all the way around to allow positioning.
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Back to the Clay Tools for the Peej scraper.
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Can you see the tiny hummingbirds? There are two whole birds on each feather. The vein goes through both birds a bit in one on the left. The one on the right fared a bit better. The 'paintings' are mirror images (thinking about earrings ).
If you want to see larger images, click on the photos.
Also in the works are pendants, pins and other items but these are the only ones that will be 'painted'.
Thanks for visiting!
Penni Jo
Keep trying, they look GREAT!!
ReplyDeleteThank you so very much Stephanie!
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