So
this week I decided to challenge myself and you as you follow along
with this produce series. I chose to make some celery. This is a
project that will require a lot more patience from you as you work on
it because of the details. My best advise is to bake often, I think
most of my bunches of celery saw the inside of the oven at least 4
times. Be sure you are baking at the correct temperature, usually 230
degrees Fahrenheit because of the translucent clay. I only baked for
about 3 minutes each baking until the final one then I gave a final 5
minutes to make sure everything was baked through.
Speaking
of clay, I used Fimo in this project. The first time I tried this
project I was out of Translucent Fimo so I tried it with some Premo
translucent that I had on hand. It was way, way too soft for this
project so I really recommend using Fimo on this one. Fimo soft is
just a bit more firm than the Premo so I was able to get the celery
to hold its texture, the Premo was so soft that the texture just
disappeared on me.
The
clay blends used:
The
white- Fimo White 1 part
Fimo
Translucent 3 parts
Green-
Leaf Green 1 part
White
mixture (above) 1 part
Yellow
2 parts
It
will really help to have some celery on hand to match the color to,
you may need to tweak your color mixture a bit to match your celery.
This
project also really needs to bake on a surface like a paper plate to
avoid ruining the bottom side that rests on the baking surface.
As
I mentioned in the video, this project really surprised me in the
amount of clay it actually took to make. I am usually pretty good at
judging how much clay I will need and can almost always mix up really
close to the right amount. Sometimes I will mix in two batches so I
can show you on the video how to mix it but I
do that on purpose and know how much to mix. This time I ran out of
clay twice and mix a third batch. So either mix more than you think
you will need or at least have extra of the colors so you can mix
more.
I
hope you enjoyed this project, be sure to check out the Facebook page
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Dear Joanne,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing and maybe one day I'll try to make vegetables. I've made oranges once.
At the moment I'm working with paper.
Greetings Dorien
Dear Joanne,
ReplyDeleteThis was some challenge and I loved every minute of it...got my juices flowing. After lots of tries I finally got it down pat. The celery came out great. I totally enjoyed this challenge thank you for sharing with all of us. Have a great day.