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Lady from Shanghai
Artist: Deborah Anderson (San Jose, CA)
Honorable Mention, Polymer Clay
"My ethnic background is Chinese. A few years ago, I began collecting prints of old advertising posters and labels depicting Chinese women from the 1920s-1930s. The details and colors are exceptional. Many of these prints were destroyed when the Communists took over China years ago. Anyway, I was fortunate to obtain a few of these images and, since I am so fond of them, I decided to make a pendant with one of the images. I scanned the images on my computer and printed out a page on my inkjet printer using Epson glossy photo paper. I cut out one of the images and coated it with liquid Sculpey®, then placed the image down on a very thin sheet of translucent clay which was rolled through my pasta machine ..."
Deborah also hand mixed the frame’s clay, to get the great color match with the fancy-knot adjustable nylon pendant cord. To add texture to the frame, she used a rubber stamp with a “deeply etched pattern” and inked it with black ink before pressing it into the clay.
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