Hi guys. Here is the updated faux stained glass video. The last one had annoyingly loud music so you can't hear the tutorial very well. Click here to see the written part of m tutorial..
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Showing posts with label window clings. Show all posts
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Polymer Clay Journey: More Faux Stained Glass Window Clingies
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Thursday, March 2, 2017
Polymer Clay Adventure: Faux Stained Glass Effects
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The first piece below is a two piece window decoration. It is about 14 or 15 inches in total length and about six inches wide. It was created to be a special housewarming gift. Watch the video to Find out more. This piece was made using translucent Premo clay, that was coloured with little bits of solid
When it was all completed, I flooded some epoxy resin over the whole thing. I clearly did something wrong because in some spots the resin is starting to lift off. So I suggest investigating that issue more before recommending a coating of resin over a piece like this.
Once I did have the flower petals all laid out around the frame pieces. I've been rolled out long thin strips of clay to spell out the word welcome. Then I was described in the video, the Open areas and lettering was flooded with coloured liquid polymer clay. The brands for this one was Kato.
Never Be Boring:
Something that works really well when working with coloured liquid polymer clay, is to Drop alcohol or colouring agent into the liquid clay once it is already poured out into your shape. If you look at the pictures closely in the background part of this piece, it is not one solid colour. Actually, neither are the wee little dangle drops that he made. I am a pretty mixed coloured liquid clay with alcohol inks, then take a toothpick and dripped in another colour. Just enough to swirl it with a pointy end of the toothpick. It just makes things more interesting. I am sure he goes back to my art school university days. Remember to mention Moe, one of my our professors, in my last Article? Thanks to her I learned all about giving things a painterly look. In fact look at the paintings of Cezanne, to see what painterly look means. Just look at all those layers of brush work and colour, layer after layer... Never boring. We actually had an assignment where we were to copy one of his famous paintings. Moe said we would only get an A grade if we copied his painting exactly. That was the first and last time, I ever did an assignment like that. After copious amounts of praying, let's just say I got in A.
So playing around with colour, trying not to keep it solid or flat unless absolutely necessary, is a great thing to do to make your pieces interesting.
The following photo is what I did with those flower cans that I use in the sun catcher above. I coded them with clear liquid clay just to hold them together and it Turns out, if you bake liquid polymer clay on a very smooth tile or glass, the piece is actually cling to the window! That was a delightful surprised to learn. Of course now that I looked it up online, it wasn't a profound discovery - but at least now I know.
Lesson Alert!!
Huge lesson learned when making imitation stain glass out of liquid polymer clay:
We all love sparkle and litter don't we? Well I is trying to make a sun catcher for my mom's birthday (in the end, she ended up with the vase that I assured a couple of weeks ago) and I totally wrecked it. How you ask? Aside from adding a
Miniature Drops:
As I mentioned yesterday here is my most recent imitation stain glass, liquid polymer clay project.
So just check out the video to see more detailed photos I listen to me babble on about some of the house use and lessons learned.
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Wednesday, March 1, 2017
POLYMER CLAY JOURNEY: Earring dangle Drops Using A Faux Stained Glass Effect
Stained glass is so amazingly beautiful. The light shines through the coloured, translucent glass. We have a side light stained glass window that is so beautiful, handmade by a friend. When I remember, I will take a photo!
Due to a variety of reasons, I can not work with stained glass as an artist. It requires physical ability that I do not have. But, I discovered (thanks to all the online tutorials), that we can use liquid polymer clay or translucent polymer clay, coloured with alcohol ink or if it is already coloured then you can use as is.
I do plan on putting the many great photos I took of a variety of faux stained glass pieces. But for now, I wanted to share a mini tutorial for earring dangles.
Materials Needed To Create Faux Stained glass Mini Dangles
💗Polymer clay blended to colour of your choice for the "leading line."
💗Kato Liquid Polymer Clay OR FIMO Liquid Clay (a.k.a Deco Gel)
💗A shiny and smooth Ceramic Tile to work on and then bake.
💗Alcohol inks of your choice
💗A craft knife, small ball tools and needle tool
💗A baking pan used just for your Clay work
💗An aluminum sheet or baking pan to cover your peace while it bakes
💗Toothpick
Step number one: Create the Leading for the Line
Real stained glass as you may know already, has something called leading that forms the patterns and shapes that run around the coloured glass pieces. since we are making faux stained-glass and using liquid clay, we need to create something that represents leading. I used a bit of metallic silver and black Premo Clay. It is up to you what colour of lime you would like. I just thought it would be cool to try to replicate actual stained glass.
Step number two: Planning and Making the Shapes
To prepare the clay to use it to draw your shapes, just Roll out pieces of clay super thin and long enough to make the outlines and details for your little mini dangles.
Plan your shape, it just works better that way. You can be whimsical and just start making shapes out of your polymer clay colour mix. Or you can pre-draw out the shapes first. I drew the shapes in my sketchbook first because it was important that I remembered to make Twins of the same shape but in reverse. By reversed I mean when E-Ring dangles are created, I think it looks best if the shapes our mirrored images of each other. Now if you happen to make say, a cat and you forget to make a mirror image, both earrings will look identical. So you would have on your left ear say, the tale Close to your face and on the right here the tale away from your face. Okay I just realized how confusing that maybe, by think you know what I'm trying to say. Of course if your images are squares circles, something that is already symmetrical then it doesn't matter you can just draw one shape and make a copy of both for your dangles.
Step number Two B: Laying Down the Line
Now you can take your thin rolled Clay and lay it down on your drawings to match up the shapes and then transfer that onto a shiny ceramic tile, or, because the shape is so delicate, I suggest trying to make it directly on the shiny ceramic tile. It is important that the raw Strip of clay adheres to the ceramic tile. This is why it is important that the tile is shiny so that there are no air pockets there would be in a textured tile. If you don't have a tile a smooth piece of glass works well too.
Step Number Three: Preparing the liquid Clay
I wanted to see which liquid clay come out the clearest and most stained glass like, so I used both Kato liquid polymer clay and the FIMO liquid polymer clay, also known as Deco Gel. The conclusion was that both clays work well. I learned from watching online polymer clay tutorials that the Kato liquid polymer clay can be made much more glossy and translucent buy putting a heat gun on to it after it has come out of the oven. I have not tried this, but I have seen it transform in videos. I was still happy with how it came out just the way it was.
Back to preparing the liquid clay.... On a separate non-porous surface, either glass or ceramic tile or actually even a piece of card stock, I placed Little quarter sized blobs of liquid clay, been added drop by drop, the alcohol ink. Just mix it with a clean needle tool or toothpick until combined.
Step number Four: Adding the Coloured liquid clay
Sorry I don't have a photo or video of this, but to Music colour to to liquid polymer clay to my shapes, it works well to pick up the clay with the toothpick. Make sure it is close by so it doesn't drip off. Point the toothpick downward, so the Clay can drip into your form. Push the liquid clay right up against the edges of the shape and pop any bubbles. That's it.
Step number five: Baking your Pieces
Set your oven to the correct temperature for the solid clay. You may notice that liquid polymer clay bakes at a different temperature. So I set the temperature that is correct for the Premo polymer clay, which is 275°F.
Place your tile into the baking tray. Lay tin foil over top to protect from scorching. Then bake for about 20 to 30 minutes. Normally, I follow the polymer clay tutors advice and bake solid clay for at least one hour, even if the pieces are small. In this case, use your own judgment because it is liquid clay and like I said, the temperatures are different.
When it's done, let cool on its own and do what you want with them!
Check out the extra pictures down below!
Save Money! Colour Mixing 101 Tip:
The alcohol inks are a great tool to have in your art studio, but they can be very costly to buy every
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Not Black!
It may be easier to squeeze Black out of the tube, but as Moe, drilled into our heads in our painting class, never ever ever, use black out of the tube. It makes things muddy and just doesn't look right. Much better to make your own black. Not a big fan of black, but obviously, we need something to create drama and paint two dimensional images, to appear three-dimensional.
The higher the contrast from light to dark, the easier it is to achieve that look.
If you ever watch any of my videos, you may see you in the background that their are some paintings hanging on the wall. All of the flour and fruit and vegetable paintings you see, contain absolutely zero black acrylic paint from a tube. Pthalo Green and Alizarin Crimson, mix the perfect black.
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Okay one more idea about shading with black. I also like using indigo or just mixing opposite colours to create a neutral like brown, can be a great alternative to using black for depth.
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