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Published: 2012-07-24 22:50:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 232; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 0
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Description This one has been a long time in the making. Some 20 years ago (I was in my teens) I bought this book on fairytale characters and scenes in Fimo, mostly for this particular piece. I was not at all handy with clay back then so I never started the piece, until last year

Not only did I now have enough confidence in my abilities to work with polymer clay that I could finally create this piece, I even gave everything a twist of my own more or less (plus add to that that since the publishing of this book many new colours have been added to the Fimo range). And I actually like the final result even more than the original in my book *grin*

The original had blue and green marbles in the well and the whole piece was added to a fishbowl with 2 goldfish in it. Quite pretty, but not what I'm going to do. First of all I'm not a big fan of keeping fish in bowls and I certainly feel that placing goldfish in such a small container is a big no no. Seriously, don't ever do it. Secondly, I felt it would be much more fun, and probably more practical than loose marbles, to add swirls and clay fish to the well and fill it up with resin. As you can see that one little bit still has to be done, I just haven't got the resin yet. But I figure it doesn't really matter for this picture.
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afke11 [2012-07-25 07:18:44 +0000 UTC]

The bowl could work if you made some floating fishies for it you talked about a while back.
I love the frog's face a lot!
(Also; is polymer clay simply fimo?)

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spaceship505 In reply to afke11 [2012-07-25 10:27:47 +0000 UTC]

Like the ones I made for my dad's little pond, yes, that could work I have making goldfish themed stuff these last few weeks and I'm definitely getting better at it.
Also, I've been googling this a lot and it seems that polymer clays, when thoroughly baked and cured (and not varnished) are safe to but into fish tanks (though I'm still looking into commercial epoxy varnishes). Not that this piece would look good in mine (wrong dimensions, wrong colours), but it would be cool to make your own aquarium ornaments.

Polymer clay is basically artificial clay that can be cured in an oven at a fairly low temperature. That's the basic definition. Fimo just became the synonym for that because in the NLs at least it was the first to appear on the market and it's still the most easiest the come by. If I want to work with Sculpey/Premo or Cernit or Kato etc. I have to order it. Some Pipoos shops sell Pardo, also a nice polymer clay, based on beeswax (and a trendsetter, Fimo is now all natural as well).

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