Ocean Commotion: Mosaic Assemblage with Polymer and Epoxy Clays!

Class 01:

• Overview of the course
• Why I love polymer clay / polymer clay basics
• Let’s make sculptural a starfish from polymer clay
• Let’s talk about powders
• Adding powders to your starfish and setting it in the bezel
• Let’s begin to make an octopus / mixing marbled color polymer clay

Class 02:

• Making an octopus from polymer clay
• Adding powders to your octopus
• Let’s talk about baking polymer clay

Class 03:

• Let’s talk about sgraffito
• Let’s make a sea turtle from polymer clay
• Let’s add gold leaf to our turtle / let’s use the sgraffito technique to add designs
• Let’s explore a sgraffito variation with powder
• Let’s talk about tesserae (tiles)

Class 04:

• Let’s create polymer sheets from which to make tesserae (tiles)
• Let’s sculpt a fish from polymer clay
• Let’s add the tesserae (tiles) to our fish
• Adding powder to our fish

Class 05:

• Let’s talk about epoxy clay
• Let’s talk about embellishments for the mosaic assemblage part of our projects
• Let’s look at a few other tools we’ll use
• Time to begin our starfish assemblage by first looking at the embellishments we can use

Class 06:

• How to mix up epoxy clay
• Let’s assemble our starfish pendant
• Let’s make a sand ring from our leftover epoxy clay
• Adding an epoxy clay shell to the turtle and covering it with mosaic assemblage

Class 07:

• We keep on going with the turtle assemblage on his driftwood base!
• Let’s look at embellishments for the base
• Smashy smashy! How to break a ceramic to create mosaic shards
• Let’s talk about screws! And why we need to add them to the turtle and the wood
• Let’s attach the turtle to the wood / create the mosaic ‘puddle’
• It’s octopus time – let’s look at embellishments for his mosaic scene
• Let’s snip filati glass
• Designing the scene shape / mixing epoxy clay / creating a freeform shape on a non-
  stick surface
• Let’s add sand rings to the scene
• Adding the octopus and creating the black crystal swath

Class 08:

• Continuing the octopus’ garden scene – adding the corals
• Let’s use those filati glass snips to make a flower pattern / variation using tube beads
• Adding texture to the epoxy clay
• Let’s add the shell section
• Let’s make a spikey sea accent / add it to the scene
• Let’s talk about the fish assemblage and working directly on a tile
• Let’s begin the fish assemblage by looking at embellishment possibilities
• How to fracture a rock cabochon
• Mixing up epoxy clay and adding the fractured rock
• Let’s assemble the rocky ocean bottom of the scene using so many things

Class 09:

• Let’s keep on assembling our rocky ocean bottom
• Adding powders
• Let’s make dimensional coral mosaics in the scene / add powders
• Let’s add the fish and create pearly waves and ocean currents
• Let’s add powders to make the details pop
• Time to talk finishing – making sure all your pieces are finished properly
• Let’s add a hanging hook to the back of the octopus’ garden scene
• Final wrap up thoughts

BONUS

• Bonus class: Jelly Pendant
• “Fugu Fish” PDF Download
• Supplies list

Open Facebook Group to students of this course:
Curious Mondo: Mosaic Assemblage

Time table:
9 hours

Level:
Basic / Intermediate / Advanced

Target market:
Sculptors

Main objective:
Learn how to create a mosaic assemblage style piece using polymer clay and epoxy clay and incorporating mixed media embellishments.

Prerequisite:
None