Students will learn to mix the ivory color and then create a Skinner blend from from the ivory, white, brown and black polymer clay using an original blend layout designed to create the blend, striations and shaded split barbs in the feather.
Class is $50.00. May 2, 2013 10:00am to 3:00pm at beautiful Lake Yale in Florida. This is a pre-conference class at Fandango. For more info about the Orlando Clay Fandango, dates, location and more click this LINK.
Designs from tiny feather charms to a large 'jeweled' feather are possible using a single polymer clay cane. I'll show how to reduce the cane with no packing and how to create a variety of sizes.
Each student will receive a kit containing:
• Full color lesson with step by step pictures including earring pattern.
Retail Value $14.95
• Tiny laser images for optional “Painted”
Feathers.
• Sheet of sketches - how to lay out designs
•Single Edge Safety Razor blade
•Small square of Card stock for baking
Retail Value $14.95
• Tiny laser images for optional “Painted”
Feathers.
• Sheet of sketches - how to lay out designs
•Single Edge Safety Razor blade
•Small square of Card stock for baking
•One
sheet of Candy Paper
•Two
Sheets of printer paper
Materials
needed:
•Clay
needed: •Strong
Polymer Clay: My choice is Pardo - White, Translucent, Brown, Black,
& Yellow.
A small part of the Yellow and Brown will be mixed with some of the
white to make the Ivory color in the feathers. Other strong polymer clays are Premo, Kato or Fimo Classic.
•Scissors •Scotch
or masking tape •Pasta
Machine for making the Skinner blend. In the instructions PM will
stand for Pasta Machine. •Long,
flexible tissue blade or other flexible blade •Rigid Blade for cutting slices
Instructions to make the feather earrings shown will be included. Materials needed for the earrings are:
•2 ear wires, •2 eye pins. If you have no eye pins you will need approx. 5 inches of 20
gauge wire. •Beads: two 4mm hollow
metal silvertone beads, two large red glass seed beads, four 8/0
glass seed beads and two 6mm glass turquoise beads (or beads of your
choice).
I love Painted feathers so, just for fun, these tiny 'painted' feathers were created using laser images on the tiny clay feathers. Slight modifications were needed to get an effective "painted" image. Each kit will have a few copyright free laser images so class members can try out the technique. If there is no time in class, I will be a demonstrator for three days at Fandango and will be glad to demo the technique if requested.
Demos by Linda Hess and Penni Jo
Couch.
For more information on my class or to sign up please contact me.
Penni Jo Couch
claylady43 (at) G m a i l (dot) com