Unika hästskulpturer och målningar av EvaMarie Törnström
After a lot of sanding and lacquering – here she is – The Stroppel Horse! It is named after Alice Stroppel who invented this technique for making wonderful canes. The horse looks very proud with her new colors and she … Read More
Now its time to carefully press the slices into the soft black clay on the horse. As you see, I only cover the upper part of the horse, the neck and the back. I use shorter slices for the neck … Read More
I made the horse in a similar was as I made the Cloissonné horse. The skeleton/armature was created in steel wire and aluminum foil, with legs made of bamboo skewers. I covered it all in black clay thereby creating the … Read More
Now, the canes have been resting for a while and for the final one hour they have been in the fridge to cool down even more. As you can see in the photo, I also have ice packs under the … Read More
In my previous blog post Alice Stroppel showed how to make Stroppel canes. Here are the left-over canes from the Cloisonné Horse and some black polymer clay. I rolled the black clay in thin sheets and placed parts of he … Read More
Well, I did not succed with this one. Or – it is a very nice and goodlooking horse, but it did not turn out as I wanted. My intention was to make the horse look like it was covered with … Read More
Now it’s the tricky part of it all. To make it look like cloisonné. In real cloisonné, you first make patterns with metal wire and then you add color in the fields between the wires. I chose to do it … Read More
I placed thin slices of my canes on the horse, roughly following my first sketch. The colors turned out fine against the black background. The small dimples you see in some places come from the tool I used for placing … Read More
For the cloisonné horse, I had an idea of creating a colorful, yet very simple pattern on the black body of the horse. I started with FIMOs basic colors and made some Skinner blends. One from white over yellow to … Read More
In my last blog post about the cloisonne horse I came to the conclusion that I had to develop a technique of my own to make something that looks like cloisonné. To make this, I needed a black base for … Read More