Gradient Flower
December 16th, 2006
When I realized that I haven’t done any polymer clay work this month, I set out to play with them. I immediately remembered exactly why I haven’t been touching them for a while. I have spent most of my day fighting with my camera. There was sun light on my desk but not at all uniform and at a really bad angle for photographing. As I struggled and hours passed, things only got worse and I ended up using flash at the expense of quality. But at least I didn’t give up and here is the result: gradient flowers cane.
I have selected fushsia color. For the color you select, you can form the scale of colors as shown above by mixing the colored clay with changing proportions of white.
After forming the scale of colors, roll the clay pieces to same thickness. Form a cylinder from the darkest tone. Then roll the other sheets around the core cylinder in the order shown in the picture below. This will form the petals of the flower pattern.
Now to prepare the core of the flower, form another cylinder from the darkest tone and wrap it with another color of your choice. (purple in my case)
Now we have the petals and the core of the flower. All we need to do is to make a cane out of this combination.
By placing thin purple cylinders to the gaps between petals and by applying light pressure with fingers, slowly merge the petals and the core.
Be careful at this stage. You can easily distort the pattern. As a last step, I used another sheet of purple clay to wrap around this cane. The end result is shown at the top this post. I will post an application of this cane soon.
like candy… soft water taffy?
It has been fun getting to know you this year. Wishing you a happy holiday and a peaceful new year!
Hey,
Nice cane and a good tutorial!
I wish you all the best in the new year and a lot of nice creations!