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A coloured pencil and marker illustration of a dear family we know.
Hi guys! Well I know the focus at HeArtfully Creating has been polymer clay, because that reflects where my main creative juices have been flowing into these last few years. You know what I mean! However, illustrating/drawing and painting were my number one focus or medium. And yes, painting in three dimensions, using polymer clay so to speak, has become my newest method of art making, but I still do enjoy drawing in two dimensions. However, modern technology has lead me to digital illustration. More on that in a future post.
But for today, I wanted to share a Celebration of Illustration in a video compilation of my hand drawn illustrations. Some were for fun, for gifts and because I was commissioned to illustrate for cook books and learning materials.
All of what you are about to see were created using either fine tipped permanent marker, pencil, coloured pencil, and/or coloured markers.
Watch Celebration of Illustration Below!
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Anita
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Hi guys! Hope you are all enjoying some form of creativity. It has been a productive time for me thanks to discovering those great bracelet cuff templates (check that out here) and because of some special projects for those I love. Stay tune for more about my most recent one, a special birthday gift
I got to give to my Dad yesterday. He turned 75 today! I will call it a learning experience in resin and polymer clay. You will see sometime by the weekend!
My last tutorial was about using those great bracelet cuffs but I was using a Spiral Skinner Blend Can that I just made up using some old bulls Eye canes I had. However, I was so excited about sharing that, that I didn't share how to make the purple spiral skinner blend cane. So here is the "Learn with me tutorial," on that. Just watch below. I started working on an illustration to show you how to do the skinner blend itself, but as often happens, I draw too many details and didn't get it done in time. Thankfully if you search "skinner blend tutorial" on You Tube, you will find many great tutorials. Here is one by Cool Tools. Watch My Learn With Me Tutorial Right Below:
What You Need To Make A Spiral Skinner Blend Cane?
💓A Polymer Clay Skinner Blend Cane (about 2 inches long and about 1 inch across.
Make sure you have a contrasting outer layer of clay on the outside of your cane. I used Premo Pearl for this cobalt blue and fuschia pink cane- that creates a gorgeous purple.
Make sure you have a contrasting outer layer of clay on the outside of your cane. Storing Or Using Your Cane
As you can see in the tutorial video and in the pics, my cane is created with spirals but once it is reduced and ready, the spirals are in various shapes. I purposely want my spirals to become abstracted designs that would work well to us in a variety of projects.
You can slice it thin or thick, depends what you want. I used it and some others as a veneer or covering to make cuff bracelets. Now even if my slices are a bit skewed, I just roll them out to join seams. That distorts them some more. Which for my purpose is cool. That way there is more variety to my pattern.
To store canes and polymer clay in general, make sure it is in a polymer safe container. I have alo rolled or covered mine in wax paper and ziploc brand plastic baggies. If they are stored for a long time, they will crack when you slice them. It is best to re-squeeze or roll them to warm them up.
Some people have no problem using old canes. I have decided they are only okay if it is a project that won't require too much flexing. In my case, the canes still seem to crack to easy and I get disappointed. Which has caused me to conclude that instead of making so many canes and even pre rolled sheets ahead of time, I should make what I need as I need it. That is just my lesson learned so far. Yet, I did have a large flower cane and it worked out well a couple years later. I think the canes with translucent clay and alcohol inks are the most prone to future cracking. You try what you want and see what happens. Room temperature makes a difference too. Warm is great for me, makes clay easier to condition. Cold temps, too frustrating to work with.
Question Time
Have you noticed a difference working with polymer clay if your environment is warmer or colder?
a) YES b) NO c) SOMETIMES
HeArtfully Creating,
Anita
Hope you re inspired to try making a simple fun cane like this or even making a bulls eye cane. That is the starting point for so many other great canes.
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Hi guys! I hope you all enjoyed the changing of seasons. For us it became spring. Recently, I have been hooked on learning how to make cuff bracelets with the help of an Easy Cuff Kit by Teresa Selgado of Tiny Pandora. And here is the link to her great tutorial You Tube channel. Worth buying (not sponsored :o)
I am going to share the tutorial about how I made the Skinner blend Spiral cane for the cuffs today. So stay tuned. Hope you are inspired to create after watching the tutorial below! Watch!
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Anita
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My UV resin fun, cube beads with glow in the dark powder inside!
Hi guys! Hope you have been enjoying the beginning of March so far. Well, below is a learning with me style video about UV Resin. The coolest result of my fun was seeing what happened with the glow in the dark powder I used. To see some really pretty results, watch the resin fun video that I just uploaded minutes ago! Watch And Learn With Me Below
Hello everyone! Hope you have been creating in whatever way shape or form you prefer. Today, I want to share a video tutorial, a very simple one at that - about how to make some very simple and beautiful polymer clay beads. Beautiful because they are textural (click here to see my previous articles on making texture plates and rollers) and enhanced with pigment powders. Since I adore chrome chameleon nail art powders and flakes, that what I used. As well as, the forever tried and true, mica powders. If you don't have these powders, you can use sparkly eye shadows. Just don't use them on your eyes after.
You Will Need
💕conditioned polymer clay
💕Texture sheets or stamps
💕bead pins for piercing holes and baking
💕Pins or needle tools, and/or toothpicks or bamboo skewers
💕Mica, nail art and/or pigment powders
💕baking pan
💕card stock folded into a fan fold to lay beads on to bake
💕a bead baking rack or hand made one (skewers or stiff wires running across a baking pan -see my original one here)
💕Aluminium pan or foil to cover beads in oven
💕Ceramic tile to lay on bottom of pan
💕water based stirred polyurethane or glaze suitable for polymer clay
💕An oven set to 275 f if using Premo
Love drawing illustrations to accent my blog articles and such, this drawing was created using my bamboo wacomb drawing tablet. Digital drawing devices are great. It does take a while, depending on the software, to get used to drawing straight lines again. It is often free. If you want to try drawing digitally, you don't even need a tablet, you can draw with your mouse and a free drawing app. It is great fun! Checkout The Video That This Illustration Was Made
