Playing in the Polymer Clay Again

The semester is over and I’m frantically getting jewelry pieces finished for a show in Ruidoso Memorial Day Weekend. While preparing for the show last week, I found out about a polymer clay bead contest spons0red by Beading Daily. So I went to work! I needed to create some polymer clay focal pieces anyway, so here are a few of the beads I came up with using a fun technique that involves translucent clay, metal foil, and alcohol inks:

I had a hard time deciding which bead to enter, but ultimately I decided on this one, which I named “Cosmic Canyon” because it looks a little bit like a surrealist Southwest landscape: