Ponsawan Sila uploads her latest experiments to Flickr (and Facebook). Here she shows us Pardo translucent stretched over a steel wire armature, colored with watercolor pencils, and highlighted with gilder’s paste.
“Two years ago, I join the group called Ring A Day and we finished 365 rings in one year. My rings were exhibited and in a book, and I sold many of them,” Ponsawan says. This year she joined the brooch-a-day group (BAD) and she’s right on schedule.
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I just love Ponsawan’s work. These look great.
I barely made earrings a week last year and poorly failed to photograph and post them every week, so I respect a decision to do brooch a day. Very brave!
Nena, I made 4 pair of earrings for Earring A Week last year. I need to make a real committment to the project.
I love the brooch-a-say idea. As a writer I grew a lot during a story-a-day challenge. I’ll think about doing the same with polymer clay, just as soon as I catch up with my other projects!
They’re lovely, and I see so many beautiful things made with this Pardo translucent, but I can’t find any. Anyone have a source, please?
I got mine from Creative journey studio http://www.facebook.com/CreativeJourneyStudios
You can contact Sue Sutherland.
Wonderful Ponsawan! Love that this looks like gut, or translucent paper. . .I think she’s onto something. Can’t wait to see more!
Thank you Susan, I am still experiment with the translucent clay, but it is exciting to see what it looks like after baking.
This is genius, Ponsawan!
I buy my Pardo Trans from Trish at PolyClayPlay.com in Texas. She is out of stock right now, but taking pre-orders for a (hopefully) mid-March delivery. Her prices are very reasonable, including her shipping.
A word of warning, though. While all the Pardo clay I’ve ever bought from Trish at PCP has been fresh, I have not been so lucky when purchasing it from other online places like amazon.com, which charged 3 times the regular price per brick.
From my own considerable experience with Pardo trans, I have found it to be the absolute best clay to work with, bar none, but it does have a very short shelf life; and if the outfit selling it is not familiar with clay or how to store it, you could get a crumbly mess.
Be sure to ask if the Pardo is fresh batch, and if they guarantee its freshness. I found out the hard way that some places have no idea how to store it, which means it could be sitting in a hot warehouse somewhere.
Very useful information Lynda. Thank you for the heads-up
Gorgeous work, Ponsawan!
I agree with Lynda 100%. Trish is the BEST for great prices, great products, and fresh clay! She is a delight to deal with. She was even so sweet & generous as to refer me to Sue at Creative Journey when she was out of stock! Reminds me of Santa at Macy’s in Miracle on 34th Street!
I just spoke to Sue there and she was very nice – hate to tell y’all but I got the last 5 bars.
Here’s a hint: If you need a substitute quickly, Pardo Jewelry Clay in Agate (Trish has) is very similar to the Professional Translucent in that you can “read” thru it, etc. It has a slight yellow-y tint that the Translucent does not have. But if you are tinting it anyway, might not be a problem!
Would love to hear if anyone else tries this – I will try to post photos on my Flickr soon.
Thank you Cynthia for your work that you do for all the Polymer clay techniques that you show us in your Polymer Clay Daily Newsletter.