Heart of the Week for 7/3/11

I absolutely love, love, love, love, love the pieces made by Liz Hall of Lizard's Jewelry. Her stuff is some of the most phenomenal combinations of color and shape! This week's heart is inspired by Liz's use of color and clay.

First, I drew and cut out my heart form on cardstock.

Here is a thin cutout of clay using the template.

I made a thicker cutout also using the template and then cut some geometric forms out of it.

I bonded the two layers together using slip, let it dry- then sanded it and put it in the kiln.

Here is the pendant after coming out of the kiln and being burnished clean.

I mixed up several blends of polymer clay and filled in the cut-outs in the pendant. After coming out of the kiln, here is the finished piece!