Fossils: the Art Elements reveal for November!

Welcome to the (slightly late) but inspired by ancient… fossils that is… Art Elements revel post! When Niky chose this theme I knew I had a plethora of choices by my talented team mates and Mother Nature herself…

And I chose something completely different. Ok Muse – I hear you!

On and off since this summer I have been working on new pieces embedding crystals into polymer pieces, creating a crystal terminal/point on the base of the piece:

The owl prototypes – they were extremely popular.

I have been planning more in this series, and sourcing amazing crystals – stay tuned for that. But this month an unlikely item caught my eye: a megalodon tooth. (wiki). I believe Lindsay sent me this as a gift?!

I knew I wanted to make a goddess figure – so I started the sculpt with her body in granite polymer. She has fine line striations to match the tooth’s texture. To adhere the two I sculpted a connection in Apoxie sculpt – and textured it as well. I am SO sorry I didn’t take a pix at that stage! Here she is done:

And with another fossil from my stash, I tried another style – embedding the fossil. ( Also granite polymer)

I am really pleased with how they turned out and look froward to more along this theme. I imaging them in shadowbox frames, with a felted beaded backdrop? Or handheld pieces for table or altar? Or both…. Excited for the new work the new year will bring.

But for now – wishing you a happy holiday weekend for the US crowd, and happy fall to everyone else –

OH – Dont forget to hop :

AE Team

Jen

Lesley

Sue

Claire

Jenny ( you are here)

Niky

Guests

Cat

Tammy

Susan

Dawn

Michelle

Sarajo

Evie & Beth

Divya

8 thoughts on “Fossils: the Art Elements reveal for November!

  1. niky says:

    What wonderful treasures Jenny! Your goddesses are amazing, I love how you used the fossils with them, so very creative! I think they will look amazing in alters!

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  2. Dawn says:

    How wonderfully creative and original – they are amazing! I would not have thought to use the fossils that way, yet as soon as I saw them I knew that’s how they were meant to be used.

    I think they’d be lovely suspended from chain or cord and hanging in a window. Or, with Christmas coming they’d be beautiful tree ornaments.

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