Hand made texture stamps - 70 of 366 creative days

70/366 Hand made texture stamps in polymer clay or wax or rubber


a - Materials

1. Polymer clay
2. Wax
3. Rubber
4. Dried or fresh plants

b - Tools

1.  Sculpting tools for soft materials (can also use:needles, toothpicks, nails, etc)
2.  Sculpting tools for harder materials (chisels with gouge)
3. Rolling pin

c - Techniques

1. For polymer clay use round ball tools and just draw what you have in mind, be patient and clean the scraps with a soft brush often.
2. If you want to make a specific design from a  digital version, 
1. Print the design on a piece of paper and then copy it using a toner copier  
2. Place it face down on the polymer clay, 
3. Dab the back of the paper with a piece of cotton that was previously dampen in alcohol
4. Remove the paper
3. For drawing on wax, print the design and use carbon copy paper, same for rubber or wood.
4. For soft materials like clay, use also plants (dried or soft) and "sunk" them into the clay using the rolling pin, or place the plant on the table and roll the clay over it with the roller.

d - End result

Polymer clay texture free hand

Polymer clay and fresh flowers texture plate

Mixing colors for water and air elements - 30 of 355 creative days

30/366

   I celebrated 30 days(a month) by doing something boring. mixing colors. I really don't like doing it, is boring as hell and a huge waste of time, but, I know they are very useful so I will do them thinking at the future uses.

   I will post the colors after baking them. Only 13 combination this time.

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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Texture pattern insertion sheets - 8 of 366 creative days

8/366
This is eight day of 366 creative days.

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

a - Materials
          1 - 1xmold maker Sculpey+3xpolymer clay Fimo soft

b - Tools

          1 -Various objects, usually called junk, and imagination.
          2 - Tissue blade
          3 - Pasta machine

c - Techniques
          1 - Cool the mixture in the refrigerator, put some baby powder as well and start pressing the objects.


d - End result
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1. Pendant mold

2. Texture pattern

4. Pattern for insertion

 

4 Texture for insertion

5. Texture sheet lines

e - Used for
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          - Various beads, designs, texture sheets, etc...
f - Other info
          - I choose to give them that old picture/gray stone feeling cause I found the effect interesting.
          - only 1 and 2 are actually done, rest I destroyed after making, was only for testing and I want to remake them into a better version.
          - 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 I did these textured pattern sheets,  let me know.

Thank you for your support!
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Gradient color mix - 7 of 366 creative days

7/366
This is seventh 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 colors

         1 - 5x75(chocolate)+1x26(cherry red)
         2 - olive green made from an old mix, don't remember+a pinch of 50(apple green)
         3 -10(lemon)+15(sun flower)+014(transparent white)+ a pinch of 26(cherry red)
         4 - 1x404(translucent orange)+1x374(translucent blue)+2x014(translucent)+ a pinch of 53(tropical green)
         5 - 1x404(translucent orange)+3x014(translucent)+a pinch of 26(cherry red)
         6 - 50 (apple green)
         7 - 53(tropical green)
         8 - 80(dolphin gray)

b - Tools

         1 - Tissue blade
         2 - Pasta machine
         3 - Some random items I keep gathering for textures

c - Techniques

2. Polymer clay gradient

         1 -I use the method called Skinner blend

d - End result

3. Polymer clay beads

         This isn't made from gradients, took me too much time to make those and i wasn't able to think how I will mix them. I made those beads from the rest from unmixed colors to test out some textures and colors.

e - Used for

http://shapeshadecolor.blogspot.com/2016/06/polymer-clay-beads-experiments-71-of.html
       
f - Other info
         - nothing is baked(cured)
         - 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 I made this let me know.

Thank you for your support!

Water ball and flower made with Adobe Illustrator

   Look what I found in a folder somewhere. Is from the time I was trying to do a website for someone(that I didn't finished) and needed a water drop made in illustrator.

Ball made with Illustrator

   Of course no tutorial over the internet so I made one looking at someone elses trying to figure out how. Wasn't easy at all but...And of course, I think I lost the .ai file so now if I want to make another one I need to start it all over, but I think I wrote some steps on a notebook somewhere.

   Also found a flower that I made inspired by a real one that I had between the sheets of a book, very old flower, looked like the one in the picture, but more brownish. Was a cactus flower and had some little dots on it that I left aside.

Transparent Flower made with Illustrator

White background

   The petals are transparent and I have the original .ai file so I can see the steps in case I want to do something similar. Is been so long I think I forgot even the tools.
   I wonder if I can use this shadow effect in polymer clay and so something similar, just for the kicks...