A little spring for your day!

Roughly this time last year, I was very much into making polymer eggs. They were fun little projects that could be finished fairly quickly and it gave me an opportunity to try all kinds of techniques. I'll be showing all of the eggs in the future. For now, I want to show you my favorite, Spring Swing.

I used a chicken egg for this! To start, I blew out the chicken egg (you can find TONS of tutorials on google if you dont know how that works). Then, I rinsed the egg and baked it at 200 degrees to dry out the inside of the egg and strengthen the shell. I used an extruder to create the long blue and green snakes of clay that I turned into spirals. After I covered the egg with the spirals and made the tree I baked it. Once it was baked and cooled, I broke out a bit of the exposed egg then soaked everything in a bath of plain white vinegar. About six hours later - the egg had magically disappeared! I did have to do a little bit of scraping to clean out some of the shell and membrane that had been left behind.  When the egg was no more, all that was left was to hang the little polymer swing and this one was done!

As I mentioned, it was over a year ago when I made this, so I dont have any pictures of the process along the way. If you're interested in more details, let me know! I'll see if I can get a post together for you.

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