This
week I am showing you how to do the Skinner Blending Technique for
polymer clay. This wonderful method of blending colors of clay to
make a smooth transition from one color to the next is really much
easier than a lot of people think.
When
you look at the process it makes so much sense and is really an easy
thing to do. I think really what you need the most is a bit of
patience, because you do need to run the clay through the pasta
machine a minimum of 20 times to get a good blend (I did count how
many times I ran the blue blend through on video, I did 28 times
through if I counted correctly)
No
matter how many times I do this technique I am still fascinated by
watching the color change as I work. It is almost like magic and I
have done this so many times over the years. For this video I wanted
to show you how changing the angle and placement of the cut within
in the clay changes the blend. Once you practice a bit you can really
do so much with this.
I
use this for many foods and I have shown you a short bit on it in at
least one previous video. I have something planned to show you soon
and rather than try to quickly cover the blending again I decided to
go a bit in depth on it for one time. Now I plan to just add the link
to this video when it is a technique used in future projects.
Sometime in the future I will show you some more variations with this
using more colors too.
I
took some closer pictures of the individual blends to post here on
the blog so you can really see how this turns out.
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| all the colors |
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| cut corner to corner |
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| a little bit away from the corners |
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| more distance from the corners |
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| just a bit of blending in the center |
Great idea. Your color choices are great too!
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