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RibbonsandClay — The last rose in the winter realm

Published: 2018-08-14 15:26:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 2697; Favourites: 113; Downloads: 1
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Description This is my fourth entry for " Ripley's Unconventional Art Contest"
It is 10x14 cm

To make this craftwork I put hot glue on wax paper and added white cloth and many different layers of large and small ribbons and white lace then I removed the wax paper and I glued white cloth to the back.
After doing this I started sticking pieces of clay I molded previously, white beads,  white dyed wire, white seashells, white pins, buttons, pieces of plastic cut from a plastic fork, foam, white cardboard, pieces of polystyrene and other miscellaneous objects.

When I work on a new piece I always choose the colour first. I love colours it's the first thing that draws my eyes when I see an artwork so I try to make craftworks with all the possible combinations of colours. For this one I chose white. Then I started to think about what white reminds me of : cold, snow, winter, light, simple, pearls angels and brides. The theme in the end was " The last rose in the winter realm"  this influenced the shape and size of my work and the materials I used.

Since I was little I loved craft works I always watched art and craft tv shows and I kept a huge box with all my crafting tools in it 
What I loved the most was sticking together objects to create unusual patterns 
I glued bottle caps, old pens, pieces of cloth and I looked everywere in the house for new objects to add to my craft collection! 
At the beginning my works were very childish they were half crooked with big stains of glue and they broke at the smallest touch but with time and effort I started to improve both my tools and tecniques and I started to produce works with better quality  

I decided to join this contest because both the crafting process and the appearance of my craft works can be called "unusual"

To know more about this work read my journal!
How I make my craftworks step by stepHello! I am making this journal to describe step by step how I create my craftworks! I will also add pictures of all the process so I hope you will like it
STEP 1
    
The first thing I do is preparing the materials I will use:
I make the parts of clay I need for my works myself and those need to be ready beforehand because I use air drying clay to make them and it can take a few days for that to become completely dry! 
I use a lot of tools to sculpt the clay including plastic forks and knives, seashells and toothpicks. 
You can see some of them in the picture above along with some clay I just molded
I also work with a crochet to make crocheted wool  parts to use for some works ( you can see a work in progress in the first picture!)
I also use recycled items like bottle caps, straws, buttons, clothespins, popsicle sticks and part of plastic knives and forks but I have to buy ribbons and some other materials like foam, sticker
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Comments: 19

NotWithoutHonor [2020-03-13 22:50:24 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful

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RibbonsandClay In reply to NotWithoutHonor [2020-03-19 19:59:24 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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morningstarskid [2018-11-12 18:57:01 +0000 UTC]

Nice work of Art...

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UsamahDraws [2018-11-08 04:57:36 +0000 UTC]

Pretty interesting craft work!

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TwistySwirlz [2018-08-17 16:31:42 +0000 UTC]

did u make that?

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RibbonsandClay In reply to TwistySwirlz [2018-08-17 17:19:41 +0000 UTC]

Yes I described how I made it in the description if you're interested!

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TwistySwirlz In reply to RibbonsandClay [2018-08-17 17:24:56 +0000 UTC]

cool!
are you selling it?
or are you giving it away? or what

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RibbonsandClay In reply to TwistySwirlz [2018-08-17 17:46:42 +0000 UTC]

It is my entry for the unconventional art contest

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TwistySwirlz In reply to RibbonsandClay [2018-08-17 17:51:45 +0000 UTC]

ohhhhhhhhhhhh
if u win or lose but hopefully u win,

can I have your peace of wonderful art for FREE?

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Crystal-Saber [2018-08-15 06:55:33 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic!

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RibbonsandClay In reply to Crystal-Saber [2018-08-15 09:35:17 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Crystal-Saber In reply to RibbonsandClay [2018-08-21 03:11:16 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!

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Blessedguy01 [2018-08-15 05:27:46 +0000 UTC]

Just stunning

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RibbonsandClay In reply to Blessedguy01 [2018-08-15 09:34:56 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much

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BillyNikoll [2018-08-14 22:47:38 +0000 UTC]

How you were able to do that?

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RibbonsandClay In reply to BillyNikoll [2018-08-15 09:51:15 +0000 UTC]

I glued white cloth, lace and ribbons together then I kept adding the materials I used ( I wrote them all in the description of my work if you're interested ) until I was satisfied It took a lot of work but I'm happy with the result

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BillyNikoll In reply to RibbonsandClay [2018-08-15 12:58:09 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! 

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Livia-Anna [2018-08-14 19:35:18 +0000 UTC]

Lovely craft!

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RibbonsandClay In reply to Livia-Anna [2018-08-14 21:08:00 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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