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Materials:
- Premo! Sculpey
in a variety of colors, conditioned and ready to use. I used Cadmium
Yellow, Orange, Cadmium Red, Purple, Ultramarine Blue, and Green
- one 2-oz. package of each.
- Several 2-oz.
packages of Black Premo! Sculpey, depending on the size of your
vase. I used about 2-1/2 packages for my vase.
- Scratch Art
Texture Sheets in a variety of patterns, OR use the SAME pattern
throughout!
- Round cutters,
cookie cutters
- Sculpey Super
Slicer clay blade
- Inexpensive
glass vase (kind that flowers are delivered in work well!)
- Clay dedicated
pasta machine Premo! Sculpey
Directions
Create
your Skinner Blend. For the rainbow blend, lay your triangles in the
pattern indicated in the photo, following the left to right arrangement
of colors.
Split the
yellow triangle down the middle and put one half on the other side
of the green to create a rectangle.
Fold
the blend in half from TOP TO BOTTOM.
Run through your pasta machine, folded portion first. Continue folding
in the SAME direction and running through the machine. It takes about
20-25 repetitions of these two steps -- don't give up!
The
final blend should look something like this:
Now carefully run this through the pasta machine to make it thinner
(#3 on the pasta machine. Make it thinner, but don't spread out the
colors.
Now, cover your vase in a thinnish layer of black clay. You can do
this in sections and blend the section joints by pressing a section
of the texture sheets randomly over the surface. You don't need any
glue or adhesive agent as the clay will stick to the non-porous surface
of the glass pretty well. Set aside once the entire surface is covered.
Cut
your shape and trim the same shape out of a thin layer of black clay
for a backing. This adds dimension and gives your colored pieces the
illusion of "floating on the black surface of the vase.
Lay your shape face down on a texture sheet and texture lightly. The
texture adds some complexity to the design as well as disguising any
surface blemishes (like fingerprints) in the clay.
Apply the clay shape to the vase and start building your design. Feel
free to overlap the shapes from time to time!
I use the smaller scraps of the blend to make snakes or coild of blended
clay for the design.
Bake the vase according to package directions and allow to cool in
the oven before removing. We recommend that you calibrate your oven
to a reliable 275 degrees F (130 degrees C) using an external thermometer.
Bake 30 minutes per 1/4" of thickness. You can bake longer, NOT HOTTER!!!
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