Monday, 24 May 2021

Take your time by Olga Sępkowska

I often try to put some kind of meaning or story into my creations. Sometimes it is more obvious, and sometimes - not at all. This time I needed to just create something and enjoy it, without overthinking. 

My lights, which consisted of plastic bulbs, broke. I decided to use them in my projects - after all, nothing can go to waste. With such plastic items you have to be careful not to heat them up too much because they can lose their shape. Of course, I wasn't careful enough and my bulb got a little bit burned on the side. Thanks to the beautiful metal embellishment you can hardly notice it. 



Crushed Amber applied through the mask looks gorgeous. However, I decided to add a bit of spice to it by adding shadows with Liquid Acrylic black paint. Black Ink also helped me highlight the details of all the castings and other embellishments. 


Of course, you can see the whole process of creating my work in the video. Enjoy watching!



Hugs

Olga


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Friday, 21 May 2021

“Spring Masquerade” Altered Half Mask by Iveta Ziedina

Hello my friends!

Today I have a decorative piece inspired by the current season and longing for warmer weather!

Spring is my favourite time of the year, however this year I am still waiting for the usual spring warmth to come and stay, so when I sat down to create this project, pieces just came together and half way through the process I realised that this is exactly what inspired me, even if I wasn’t fully aware of it at first!

Does this ever happen to you? You sit down to create something without a sense of direction or intent - and things just come together by themselves, then you come out of the blur and realise that there was something moving you along the whole time really!






Well, this mask represents the not so pretty “slushy” and rainy and cold part of spring on the left side, that’s slowly being taken over by the awakening of the nature, beauty, colours and warmth.

I hope this little project will inspire you to create something inspired by spring and maybe if we make enough “gifts” for mother nature it will give us some warm weather! :D

Lots of love,

Iveta xxx

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