Fruits

(From “Fast polymer clay” by Sue Heser.)

The book recommends using a brush to texture the oranges but you have to press quite hard and they lose their shape. I used a sponge (normal artist;s sponge is fine) and it was much easier to get the texture without mishaping. I also added small stem piece to the apples and pears by making a whole using a craft needle and insert a small piece of brown snake in the hole.

The blackberries, strawberries and peaches are also not from the book. They are just things I’d thought I’d try out. The blackberries are made with a core of scrap clay and tiny little black balls of clay stuck on to it. The strawberries are made with plain red clay and a blob of green for the leaf. They were textured with a pin. The peaches are made with yellow clay. I didn’t have a red pastel to shade it so I wet a little red clay and rubbed it on the yellow peach to add a slight red tint.