We’re All Ears March Challenge

Owls: “They represent wisdom and truth with piercing eyes that are all-seeing, even in the darkest of nights. Silent, secret and majestic. As a personal totem they symbolize the capacity to see beyond deceit, a heightened intuition and are harbingers of life transitions and change”

The We’re All Ears inspiration for March is owls, majestic, glorious owls. The above quote came from the Earrings Everyday Inspiration blog post for the March challenge

My muse drew inspiration from these three owls

I can see a bit of each of them in the texture I used, the circles around the eyes in the first, the eyebrows in the middle one and the dots on the body of the third owl

I made this pair first. It just felt like the little fellow needed a nighttime setting, perched on a branch, a dark inky sky behind him with the moon peaking over his shoulder. I used guilders paste to layer colour over the different polymer clay colours, added sterling silver loops that are well secured between 2 layers of polymer and sterling silver ear wires

I didn’t like the round shape that I made originally and tried to turn them into an oval shape without an actual oval cutter. They didn’t quite come out right but kind of have a rustic look

 

Country Owls

Next I decided to make a simpler pair, using the original round shape for the background and impressing the little owl directly into the circle. Again I used a second layer for the back and sandwiched sterling silver loops between the 2 layers. Three different shades of guilders paste were applied. The outside part of the circle needed something more so I carefully applied a texture, trying to imitate the appearance of bark. It’s only when editing the photos that I noticed both are missing one eye. Ouch!

Owlz

I decided to keep the earrings for myself as past works and samples of my progress, or perhaps lack thereof, working in polymer clay

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