Kaa 5 detail - copyright Helen White
I had a few busy weeks attending fairs and creating more jewellery.
Working with polymer clay is fun but also very time consuming. My latest pendants were originally planned as rings and you can find them in my shop under Pendants, Polymer Clay Designs and Animal Jewellery. I wanted to make snake rings, however on the day I couldn’t find my ring mandrel and had to improvise and because the snakes are not that thin they ended up being very small in diameter – mainly size I which is very small indeed. So I now sell them as pendants.
Kaa 5 on ring cone - Polymer Clay Snake - copyright Helen White
Kaa 5 - copyright Helen White
I call my 6 snakes Kaa after The Jungle Book. Kaa is one of my favourite characters in the Disney version. For Kaa and her cousins I used scrap clay, formed it into a long snake and covered it with a Mokume Gane pattern. The beauty of Mokume Gane is that the possibilities are endless – you can stack as many colours as you like, include silver or gold foil, stab it with needles, impress it with all sorts of textures and once you are done and carefully scrape of the first layer you’ll be surprised about the pattern underneath. And each layer is different. I just love the unpredictability of this technique which comes from Japan. Once my snakes were covered I pressed in small seed beads for its eyes, cured it, sanded and varnished it.
Kaa 4 - Polymer Clay Snake-copyright Helen White
I hope you like Kaa and her cousins – she is very friendly too.
Kaa 3 - Polymer Clay Snake - copyright Helen White
Kaa 2 -Polymer Clay Snake - copyright Helen White
Kaa 2 -Polymer Clay Snake - copyight Helen White
Below you can also find my other Mokume Gane pendants made from the same cane.
Psychedelic round pendant in polymer clay - copyright Helen White
Psychedelic oval pendant in polymer clay - copyright Helen White
Psychedelic diamond shaped pendant in polymer clay - copyright Helen White
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