I know, I know… This post is way overdue now ?
I’ve spent a couple of weeks with my family over Christmas, then I came back from holidays straight to work. My mind was still on holidays and not in the right place to write anything. So bad of me for procrastinating haha.
Picking up from where I left off...
After arranging little rolls around, I started to squeeze it together little by little. Pretty much at this point, I’ve realised why in the original video the clay used to wrap blended roll was different (they have used some sort of pearl or metallic white clay). Part of this cane pretty much blended into a white ‘blob’. I’m thinking about trying something different next time. In case if I don’t buy pearl or metallic clay, I will mix white clay with some mica powder or bright/white eye shadow. That should give it nice ‘shine’ and make it stand out more.
Once the cane was ready and shaped as I wanted, I began slicing and arranging it into designs. It’s totally up to your imagination what it’s going to look like. I’ve started with simple rectangular shapes.
That’s what I ended up with. Few different arrangements. I’ve sliced cane quite thin and then added it to another layer of clay. Some have blue clay backing others are just double layer of sliced cane.
I’ve made a big teardrop like a pendant by stacking slices of the cane on the ball of clay and then shaping it into a teardrop. I’ve used the same technique on the long oval shape. That’s why the pattern looks more like ‘stretched’. After running cutoffs through the pasta machine I’ve found some nice parts of polymer clay that I’ve turned into some earrings. Further blending through the pasta machine, resulted in two octagonal pendants.
The plan was to make only two parts but I’ve decided to make part 3. Next post will be about my experience with covering polymer clay with UV resin.
See you in the next post ?
