Bubbles, Dots and Cupped Flowers

After a week of studying dense and mostly random repetition of elements, I thought some of you might be looking for some ideas to play with using this design concept, so today I brought you a few ideas.

Ponsawan Sila has an easy mokume gane tutorial using bubble-like elements to create a dense surface texture. She flattens hers, but I was thinking, just keep the raised spots, and maybe create a denser bubble pattern then indent the middle of each bubble for additional dimension. I think that would look interesting.

http://polymerclaybeads.blogspot.fr/2007/02/blog-post.html

If you want just some simple, fun repetition that could get you in the zen mode dot after dot, try this tutorial from Marina, known as Paper World Mary on Blogspot.

http://bond-mary.blogspot.com/2010/04/blog-post.html

If you were admiring some of the cupped shapes and flowers we saw, how about this cupped flower tutorial by Olga Fufygin.

(Click on the image for a larger view. There seems to be a problem with the image coming up on the blog page it’s from.)

Here’s to hoping you get some time for clay play! Have a great weekend.

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