UPDATE 05/10/2017 CraftArtEdu has unfortunately now closed, if you would like more information on this cane here is Claire Wallis Facebook Page. Earlier this week I took some time out to make this Water Cane, I purchased the tutorial for this cane from CraftArtEdu designed by Claire Wallis. Its a fairly simple tutorial for those that have experience in caning involving skinner blends. Polymer clay water cane in the making You get two tutorials for the price, the water cane and another thunderbolt cane which I have yet to try. Water cane & thunderbolt cane tutorial by Claire Wallis On CraftArtEdu Here's what I made with my finished cane, I did have to stretch the cane a little when applying them to my pendants but I'm delighted with the effect. My polymer clay pendants using the water cane tutorial I think this cane could look great in an array of colours I'm thinking maybe red next time. You can see more of my claying with CraftArtEdu's tutorials here Turquoise Kaleidoscope Trinket Bowl Polymer Clay Kaleidoscope Cane CraftArtEdu Review for Polymer Clay Tutorials Part 1 CraftArtEdu Polymer Clay Tutorial Part 2 The Results
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In second grade our students learn about birds. Each student is assigned a particular bird to research and create a board game. I was looking on Pinterest one day and found these really cute clay birds. Here is the link to the Etsy site: http://www.etsy.com/listing/120121796/sale-clay-bird-sculpture-turquoise. As soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to make them with my students. While making the clay birds we really practiced modeling the clay with our hands. We talked about how we could push, pinch and pull the clay to form the bird shape. I found a great graphic that I used to show my students one way to create the bird. Here is the site where I got this picture. I think it really helped the kids visualize the process:http://lh4.ggpht.com/_uRolMrRneWc/TRsrMoYa77I/AAAAAAAAEDA/R91VBrZsMWw/s1600-h/genine4.jpg I also found these great clay bird nests on Pinterest, here is the link: http://redandthepeanut.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-to-make-ceramic-pottery-birds-nest.html and decided to make those to put our birds in. If you are a bird lover you should really check out her blog. There are so many beautiful photos. Each student got a small slab circle of clay,turned the edges up and added clay strings made from garlic presses. It was great practice attaching clay. The kids really loved making both the birds and the nests. We practiced lots of handbuilding skills. Here are some of our finished birds. If you would like to see more visit our Artsonia exhibit Clay Birds.
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Scraps from canes can be from any part or stage when constructing a cane; it can be from the petals stage or the cane ends after reducing and cutting the edges. For this particular cane it is good to have chunks of scrap canes, un-blended or mixed. Scraps from millefiori canes that have transparent background can be use too in this technique, there is an example at the end of this tutorial. 1. Materials: * Cane ends leftovers from several canes. * Polymer clay in one color (variable amount) for the outline. Tools: Cutting blade, rolling pin, pasta machine and a ruler. 2. Press each cane leftovers in to a ball. Don’t try to squash or mash the ball, to avoid mixing it up. Arrange the leftover canes from left to right to a color design for your liking. Roll from each ball a cylinder (a roll) to a length of 4-5 cm / 1.5 - 2 inch 3. Press each roll to a form of a rectangle, but keep their length the same, about 4-5 cm / 1.5 - 2 inch. Attached the rectangle pieces to each other, forming a thick rectangle sheet. 4. With the rolling pin, flatten the thick sheet some more; but try to keep its shape as much as you can in a form of a rectangle, do that by pressing at the sides of the sheet when needed. The sheet thickness has to be about a 0.5 cm / 0.2 inch. 5. Set the pasta machine on its thickest setting (1). The rectangles shapes are going to be lengthened, so the position of the sheet is vertical rectangles through the pasta machine. Roll the sheet one time - this will be the "colored sheet". Cut off the top and bottom sides of the sheet. 6. For the outline - make a thin sheet (setting 4-5 on the pasta machine) in the size (width and length) of the colored sheet. Attached the outline sheet on to the colored sheet and gently press them together with a rolling pin (and take out any bubbles). 7. Roll the 2 sheets together - set the pasta machine on its thickest setting (1). Again, the position of the sheet is vertical rectangles through the pasta machine. Roll the sheet one time. 8. Clean the edges - from the 4 sides, cut the sheet to a form of a square. 9. Cut the sheet to 5 equal pieces - measure the length of the sheet, divide it by 5 and cut it horizontally - from side to side, as described on pic 9. 10. Place the 5 pieces one on top of the other and gently tighten them. 11. Carefully reduce the stack to a rectangle form, to a length of approximately 8-9 cm / 3 -3.5 inch. 12. Clean the edges - from the 2 sides, cut the ends, so the pattern can be seen clearly. 13. Cut the cane in to 2 equal pieces. Attached the 2 pieces so the outline color is on the outside. 14. Decide which side will be the middle of the triangle cane and tighten this side a little. And on to the other side - add a thin sheet from the outline color, to complete the sequence of the outline color. 15. Form the cane in to a triangle cane by pressing inside on to the "middle side" corner and gently pull the other 2 corners out. 16. Reduce the cane length to about 8-9 cm / 3 -3.5 inch. Clean the edges - from the 2 sides, cut the ends, so the pattern can be seen clearly. Cut the cane in to 2 equal pieces. 17. Attached the two parts, "middle side" to "middle side". To form a triangle cane - press gently the "middle side" edge on to the work surface. Reduce the cane length to about 6-8 cm / 2.5-3.5 inch. 18. Cut the cane in to 2 equal pieces and attached the two parts to one square cane. 19. Press gently on 4 corners to form a round shape. Reduce and roll the cane to your desired size. Ta Da !!! A few steps from a scrap cane + Tip. In this cane I've used a small amount of scrap clay, and got a cheerful colored cane; I chose white for the outline and it made the cane brighter. The outline color has a lot of influence on the overall appearance, so take that in mind when making this cane :-) If you need help or have questions about this tut, please leave that in a comment and I will gladly assist. E n j o y !!!
Sorry this is late posting today. Apparently the postal service of another country, that shall remain nameless, has delivered a package of my jewelry to the wrong address. I've spent the morning sorting out the mess. Onto more interesting things...I stumbled upon this low tech, minimal tool way to size polymer rings. I've seen it suggested that you form a ring around some sort of tube like a piece copper pipe or some other bit of hardware. Problem is, this limits the size to whatever tubes are available. Depending on your ring design, this is a method that might help you and will allow you to make any size ring you want and cost you little to nothing. Basically, you draw a correctly sized circle onto a piece of card stock and then you stand a circle of clay directly over the circle and bake it that way. First you'll need something to make circles the correct size. Ring sizes are only millimeters apart so measuring correctly is important. You can find ring size charts online at Jewelry Mall and a really detailed one with international sizing at Blue Nile. I also have a ring template that lets me trace whole sizes but the detailed measurements provided by the charts would also allow you to made your own circle templates with whole and half sizes with a compass. I got my ring template at a local PMC supplier. Its from Cool Tools. Cut a rectangle of clay, slight longer than the measurement of the appropriate ring size onto a sheet of clay on your pasta machines thickest setting. So for instance, a size 7 ring, if laid out flat would be 54mm long and so I cut a rectangle about 70-80mm long. Trace the corresponding size circle onto card stock and wrap the clay around it with the inside edge of the clay just outside the line. Gently coax the clay together at the seam. I prefer to just get the clay to stick (by holding it in place for about 30 seconds with minimal pushing) and back fill and clean up the seam after the first backing so that I won't end up distorting the circle. When the clay sticks, gently re-from to match the circle and bake right on the card stock. This would make for a very simple ring OR serve as a properly sized inner core or base. Let me know if you try this out! I'm really happy with how these are working out for me so far.
I've decided to challenge myself with an exciting project, inspired by the title of Jules Verne's book and named it "Around the world in 80 canes". From my little studio I am going to visit countries, cultures and explore themes that will be my inspiration in this project; I will be focusing mainly on color, pattern and ambiance from each place. My goals are: * To design and create polymer clay cane collections inspired from each place I will visit, until I reach 80 canes. ** To design an inspiration board for every country/place/theme. *** To share with you the inspiration and the design process behind each collection. **** To inspire you to create with joy :-) First stop: The Netherlands - The Delft Collection - inspiration board I enjoy making inspiration boards for my projects; this method helps me to focus on the essence of whatever my inspiration subject is. I always choose visuals that are deeply touch my core and stimulate my creative side. The first place I chose to visit is a city located in the province of South Holland (the Netherlands) and known for its Blue pottery, it is Delft. Delft pottery, also known as Delft Blue; blue and white pottery made in and around Delft from the 16th century. Delftware in the latter sense is a type of pottery; it includes pottery objects such as plates, ornaments and tiles. (from Wikipedia) Obviously the combination of White and Blues and the simple, yet classic patterns are the main theme in this collection. So let's begin... The first polymer clay cane is a blue rose cane, it is serene and always classic. Introducing the Delft collection this collection has 9 canes (71 to go...) Visit my Etsy shop to see all the polymer clay canes from this collection ~ Hair barrettes from the tile cane ~ ~ Hamsa ornament ~ Next stop... Morocco You're welcome to visit my FB page for more inspiration. Thank you for your LIKES !!! :-)
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