Shadow Box Shrines

Laurie Mika

Please join me for an intensive, technique driven and fun day of extreme mixed media. In creating our shadow box shrines, students will learn a variety of overlapping techniques that include: mosaic design, painting, rubber stamping, collage, embossing, beading, and embedding just about anything into polymer clay. The result will be a personal and beautiful mixed media mosaic shrine that has a 3 dimensional recessed area to hold a small relic or a special photo. This will be a hands-on class where students will get the experience of making and baking their own tiles and component parts.

Supply List:

• 3 small (2 ounce) packages of the same color Premo or Sculpey III polymer clay
• Rolling pin or rod-PVC pipe works too
• Assorted paintbrushes to include a fine detail brush
• A few rubber stamps (if you have them) with frame shapes, texture and alphabet stamps.
• A small bottle of Weldbond glue-can be found at Ace Hardware stores or online.
• A bag or two of small mosaic tiles to fill in gaps.
• A small item or picture to place inside the center of the shrine (has to be less than 2 inches high.)see
• pics for ideas
• Doo-dads to personalize your tiles like charms, buttons, rhinestones, jewelry parts, and Milagros. (see pics for ideas)
  
  
• Teacher will supply:
• Shadow box frames with hangers attached
• White tiles to be painted
• Clay blades
• Scalpels
• Shrink plastic
• Acrylic paint
• Mica powder
• Embossing powder
• Rub n Buff
• Gold gel pens
• Jewelry glue
• Ink pads
• Seed beads
• Extra commercial tile