skygrazer.com » metal clay http://skygrazer.com/journal Polymer clay, kaleidoscopes, and other ramblings about art. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:05:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Origami Crane http://skygrazer.com/journal/archives/180 http://skygrazer.com/journal/archives/180#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:44:05 +0000 Skygrazer http://skygrazer.com/journal/archives/180 When we were on vacation, we visited a highschool friend of mine in Wisconsin. She’s always been great at origami and I brought along a scrap of PMC paper I had left. She folded up a quick little crane and I finally got around to firing it the other day. It came out great. And [...]]]> When we were on vacation, we visited a highschool friend of mine in Wisconsin. She’s always been great at origami and I brought along a scrap of PMC paper I had left. She folded up a quick little crane and I finally got around to firing it the other day. It came out great. And then I very gently wirebrushed it to bring up the silver and the delicate head broke off. AAAARRGGGHH!

So… I got out some oil paste (love that stuff) smooshed some on and in the folds where it broke to reinforce it and fired it again. And this time I put it in the tumbler which I’d been a little afraid to do the first time but I’d read you could do. That little Harbor Freight tumbler works great and brought up a nice shine.

Now I just have to package it up and send it off to my friend :)

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