When I got laid off, my two best friends took me out to lunch. We went to the Cheesecake Factory up top Macy's overlooking Union Square in San Francisco. We asked a friendly tourist to take a picture of us. And because my friends have been my friends since we met in 7th grade, I had to make something special with this picture. To make this frame I used the mica shifting technique on polymer clay. Impressing a deep grooved stamp on the raw metallic clay, then shaving the top layer and finally leveling the clay. The chatoyant effect (cat's eye) gives the impression that there is something going on in there that tricks the eye, because the surface is perfectly smooth and flat. Pretty neat, huh?
I liked the technique and had extra clay leftover, so I created a bracelet, a pendant and a pair of earrings; rubber cord holds the medallions together. Because polymer clay is so light, the earrings do not pull my ears down. Here is a picture of the set and a closeup of one of the medallions to show the chatoyancy detail.
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