I’ve been working on my thesis these last few weeks so I haven’t had too much time to work on the clay and I have to say, I missed it a LOT!!! So I thought, I’d try something quick for a break.
I browsed for ideas on how to make miniature books and I came across [...]
I have been addicted to ChristelJensen’s tutorials on YouTube!! She is such an amazing artisan and her tutorials are brilliant. I can’t wait for the next tutorial to come out. All her work is so delicate and ornate.
The most important thing I learnt from this is the importance of letting your first layer of paint [...]
… in all it’s wobbly glory!
Ok, so the set is far from perfect but it’s the first set I’ve done and I’m quite proud of it. I learned a LOT from it. Mainly, the following.
Leaching clay helps a great deal when doing small details. I should have gone for Fimo Classic straight away but leaching [...]
(From “Fast polymer clay” bye Sue Heaser.)
The only deviation I made fromt he instructions in the book was to add small brown stalks to the parsnips and carrots. I’m not sure if this helped though. Next time though, I would use a slightly darker clay for the potatoes instead of the biege recommended in the [...]
(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 [...]