Gradient Ikat - 9 of 366 creative days

9/366
This is ninth day of 366 creative days.

a - Materials
b - Tools
c - Techniques
d - End result
e - Used for
f - Other info

a - Materials

1. Polymer clay color mix

  My favorites are the 2+9, 2+7 and 3+4 combination, the 3+4 can get a special hill type effect inside due to the mica shifting in the metallic gold.
          1 - 43(light flesh)
          2 - 10(lemon)+15(sun flower)+014(transparent white)+ a pinch of 26(cherry red)
          3 - 11(gold)
          4 - olive green made from an old mix, don't remember+some 50(apple green)
          5 - 1x504(transparent green)+1x014(transparent white)
          6 - 1x404(translucent orange)+2x014(translucent)+a pinch of 26(cherry red)
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          7 - 75(chocolate)
          8- olive green made from an old mix, don't remember
          9 - 2x504(transparent green)+2x014(transparent white)+1x33(ultramarine)

b - Tools

          1 - Tissue blade
          2 - Pasta machine
          3 -Piece of transparent acrylic plate for the swirl
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c - Techniques

2. Skinner blend color mix

3. Polymer clay gradient Ikat

          1 - Make skinner blend and squish them perpendicular to the colors  and get a 3 cm tube, then run trough a pasta machine to look like in the picture, usually on highest setting
          2 - Add some stripes of a contrasting color random on a tube of skinner blend, parallel with the colors then run them once fold, repeat this until your getting the color stripes result you want, the cut them and add them on top of each other. After that If you pass them trough a pasta machine perpendicular on colors, without thinking at what you want to use them, you will get the result on the image 3.
          3 - Place some colors and some other patterns on a bead, place the transparent acrylic sheet on top and start moving in circles(20-100 times, yes, you can pretend you do some fitness but the only thing you will get bigger is your wrists)

d - End result
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4. Polymer clay swirl, beads and leaf

e - Used for
          Will be added later

f - Other info
          - Unbaked colors
          - this is not a tutorial, was posted to help me remember some things and to keep track on "366 creative days" project. If you want a tutorial with detailed pictures about how to do it, let me know.

Thank you!
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