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 [...]
Finally I got round to my local library and picked up the following books:
“Fast polymer clay” by Sue Heaser
“How to make polymer clay beads” by Carol Blackburn
“Creative techniques for polymer clay jewellery” by Nanetta Bananto
They are all good books but one of them desrves a special mention. Blackburn’s book is mind blowing! I can’t believe [...]
After reading up about my new obsession of doll’s houses, I found out about polymer clay. I was so amazed at the things that people had done with it, I decided to go out and get some to try a few things out. This post has pictures of the things I managed to do at [...]