Nan Smith of Nanmade Jewelry is a fellow Canadian who is living a truly creative life now she has retired! She shared her tutorial for a translucent polymer clay cane pendant. What I love is the pearlescent look which reminds one of mother of pearl shells. The clay turns translucent only after curing.
The tutorial is in 2 parts. Part 1 covers the making of the millefiori cane. The second part is the tricky bit.
Nan shared the tutorial on Adobe Spark which uses a very different display format. I found it takes getting used to. What do you think? Please share your comments below.
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The tutorial is in 2 parts. Part 1 covers the making of the millefiori cane. The second part is the tricky bit.
Nan shared the tutorial on Adobe Spark which uses a very different display format. I found it takes getting used to. What do you think? Please share your comments below.
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Thank you so much for sharing this Pear! I am definitely going to give this a try! Happy New year!
ReplyDeleteHave fun! and Happy New Year to you too!
DeleteI love this piece and the Spark format as well!
DeleteI too am definitely going to give this a try once I return to my studio.
I have to say that us Canadians certainly do rock don't we?!
Lovely idea and nice tutorial, the format took a minute to get used to but I think I like it better than some others I have seen.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the find!!! Happy New Year!!! <3
Wonderful! Thank you for sharing Nan. Beautiful work.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the tutorial. Off to try it now. Interesting format for the tutorial - I'm on the fence about it. Maybe I just need to get used to it more. I found that so far I like the way Donna Kato does her tutorials. She has still photos, and talks slowly and clearly over a slide show, that's where you get little hints about how to do it right. If there is a particularly complicated area, she does a very short video of just that part. The tutorials that have a constant video (and a lot of time wasted with the teacher searching for something, or watching paint dry!) I find sometimes interesting, but usually I just get annoyed at the time it takes, when it could be done efficiently in half the time!
ReplyDeleteI love this style of polymer clay beads! Good for Nan!
ReplyDeleteI was intrigued by the format--disconcerting at first, but I soon got the hang of it. I love the look of the pendant using translucent clay, but I had to read the second part of the tutorial twice to understand that you are demonstrating a new way to create a hollow bead...is that right? I assume that's why you have to pierce it to let the air out. I am going to try this! I hope it holds it shape through the shaping and baking. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThis way of making puffy but hollow beads is a common technique used by many polymer clay artists. It saves clay as the other way is to use multiple layers. I will be posting about this in the near future.
DeleteVery good tutorial but I hate the format, sorry!
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