On one of the mushrooms, I decided to use something flatter. I'd have used a flat brown brush on pigment powder if I had any, but all I had was metallic copper or silver powder. The tops of the caps and the bottoms of the stems could use some color. I bent some of the stems just a little to make them more interesting. ![]() I squished the clay up from the bottom of the stem a bit to make it slightly fatter. I rolled out a small log of the striped clay, flattened it, then wrapped it around the wires the long ends of wire protruded from the bottom of the stem. I used two enameled copper wires for each stem. I smooshed a handle into the bottom of the cap to hollow it out a bit, then pressed a blade into the cap to form lines inside and out. I pinched the outsides of the slice together into a point to form the top of the mushroom cap so the stripes would line up properly. I left the log thick and sliced off sections to make the caps. I repeated this a couple more times until the stripes were as thin as I liked. I placed the sections next to each other to make a shorter, fatter log, then squished them together and rolled them out again. I rolled out a log of each color then sliced them in fourths. I wanted to create a subtle stripe effect instead of just mashing the two together. I used Sculpey 3 polymer clay in two colors: translucent and glow-in-the-dark. The solar panel would have to be visible, anyway. I decided to put the wiring etc in the back, rather than hollowing out part of the log. I then drilled holes where I thought mushrooms should go. I washed it with the hose, broke off the extra branches, and dried it in the oven at 200 degrees for a couple hours. I didn't see any holes where bugs might be hiding, and it was definitely interesting to look at. The maple branch I'd removed from our tree a few weeks ago was almost certain to have very few things that might crawl out and bite me, but it just wasn't very interesting to look at.įinally, I decided on the root end of some evergreen bushes I recently ripped up. ![]() but all the cracks almost guaranteed lots of bugs. I considered my other options.Ī smooth, decaying stick I found in the strawberry bed seemed aesthetically pleasing. Once I started sawing the rotten part off, two spiders and an earwig crawled out and I lost my nerve.
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