The Basics
These tutorials and tips are all about the basics of working with clay.
- Using Canes to Decorate a Sheet of Clay
- Making Round Beads
- Figuring Out How Much Clay to Use
- Adding a Simple Hanging Loop to a Clay Pendant
- What You Can Do With One Ounce of Cane
- Colour Recipes: Premo Alizarin Crimson Ultramarine Blue Cadmium Yellow
- Colour Recipes: Premo Cobalt Blue Cadmium Red Cadmium Yellow
- Colour Recipes: Premo Zinc Yellow Turquoise Fuschia
- A Method for Making Canes from Pictures
- How to Make a Skinner Blend Plug
Projects
Making Canes & Beads
Want to try making canes? Here’s your chance. These aren’t advanced but you’ll want to have a pasta machine and knowledge of Skinner blends, if possible.
- A Simple Heart Cane
- A Flower Centre Cane
- Six Petal Flower Cane
- Shaded Leaf Cane
- Ivy Leaf Cane
- Canada Flag Cane
- Baseball Cane & Beads
- Candy Corn Cane Beads I
- Candy Corn Cane & Beads II (YouTube only)
- Pumpkin Cane & Beads (YouTube only)
- Make Backgroundless Flower Canes (YouTube only)
- Make Backgroundless Flower Cane Beads (YouTube only)
- Make Starlight Mint Canes (YouTube only)
- Christmassy Stripes and Bullseye Canes
- The Heart Cane from Scraps (YouTube only)
- The Blue Aster or Sunflower Cane (YouTube only)
- Snowman Scene Cane Process Video (YouTube only)
Me Making Other People’s Canes and Beads
- Feather Cane Speed Build (YouTube only)
- Rose Cane Speed Build I (YouTube only)