Project designed by Nan Roche. Materials: Liquid Sculpey polymer clay in translucent and white
polymer clay in a variety of colors
Sculpey diluent
dry powders or pigments
metallic gold powder
gold leaf
rubbing alcohol
10 medicine cups
wooden coffee stirrers
bamboo skewers
wooden tongue depressors
toothpicks
shallow plastic basin
pasta machine
tissue blade
glass with sanded edges
combs or picks with variety of spaced teeth
mirror
plastic or glass work surface
jewelry findings - pin backs
paper towels
apron
vinyl gloves
Loctite Gel super glue
tissue paper
patterned scissors Steps: Marbleizing on Water - Fill basin about one inch deep with water.
- Prepare the marble colors by mixing pigment powder into a small amount of Liquid Sculpey. Thin the mixture with the diluent until it is the consistency of heavy cream.
- Use a wooden stick to carefully drop some of the colors of Sculpey onto the water surface. Cover the surface of the water with a variety of colors. Some of the colors will disperse rapidly, and others will be very slow.
- Using the wooden stick, needle tool or comb, rake through the colors to create a unique pattern (figure A).
- Roll a thin sheet of clay (No. 6 thickness on pasta machine) in a contrasting color.
- Carefully lay the sheet on top of the water and the marbling.
- Pick up your sheet, trying not to smudge the colors. Allow to dry (figure B).
- Bake the clay according to the package instructions (generally bake at 265-degrees for approximately 30 minutes).
- Use a paper towel to clean the extra pigment from the surface of the water bath.
- Roll a sheet of clay for the background.
- Cut up pieces of the baked clay then use them to create a collage on the background clay. Press the pieces into the background.
- Trim the background clay, and re-bake according to the package instructions.
- Glue on a pin back.
Marbleizing on Glass - Clean the glass surface with rubbing alcohol.
- Prepare the marble colors by mixing pigment powder into a small amount of Liquid Sculpey. Thin the mixture with the diluent until it is the consistency of heavy cream (figure C).
- Use a wooden stick to carefully drop some of the colors onto the glass.
- Using the wooden stick, needle tool or comb, rake through the colors to create a unique pattern. If the colors are transparent, add gold leaf to give depth (figure D).
- Bake the clay according to package instructions.
- Roll a sheet of clay for the background.
- Cut up pieces of the baked clay then use them to create a collage on the background clay. Press the pieces into the background.
- Trim the background clay, and bake according to the package instructions.
- Glue on a pin back.
RESOURCES :
powders, pigments - Douglas and Sturgess, Inc.
Douglas and Sturgess, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Toll Free Phone: 888-278-7883
Email: sales@artstuf.com
URL: www.artstuf.com
video - Special Techniques in Polymer Clay with Nan Roche
Mindstorm Productions
Freehold, NJ
Toll Free Phone: 800-400-7099
Fax: 732-431-2986
URL: www.mindstorm-inc.com
adhesives and glues - Loctite
Available at local hardware, craft and art stores.
Manco Inc. / Loctite
32150 Just Imagine Dr.
Avon, OH 44011
US
Toll Free Phone: 800-321-0253
URL: www.loctiteproducts.com
Sculpey polymer clay
Polyform Products Inc.
Products available at craft and hobby stores.
Website: www.sculpey.com
The New Clay: Techniques and Approaches to Jewelry Making
by Nan Roche (ISBN: 0962054348)
Click here to order this title.
Flower Valley Press Inc.
Glen Echo, MD
US
Phone: 301-654-1996
Toll Free Phone: 800-735-5197
URL: www.flowervalleypress.com
GUESTS :
Nan Roche
Artist / Owner, Nan Roche
4511 Amherst Road
College Park, MD 20740
Email: nan@nanroche.com
URL: www.nanroche.com
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