Polymer Clay Canes for Beginners

27 videos, step by step, beginner cane workshop beginner Cane Tutorial What people are saying about this tutorial. jennifer rose Just finished this first workshop on how to make canes, and I must say I learned so much. This is exactly what I have been looking for, someone who could explain cane making in a step by step that process that I could replicate. I watched the videos, went into my studio and began to create all of the canes Alice showed. I finally have results I can be proud of, and I say thank you so much for doing this workshop. My only question now is when do we get more workshops. If you are only going to take one online class let it be this workshop. Thank you Alice for your hard work, and your dedication to helping others learn the joys of polymer clay.

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On Going Polymer Clay Cane Mapping Experiment

Single fish - polymer clay cane mapping

I’m trying other ways to display the fish that I shared with you the other day. I still like the black background so I decided to see how a lone fish would look in a square frame. I can see a group of these on the wall. I like this as well as the larger grouping.

Still, nothing is permanent yet, plus I used very small glue dots to hold the pieces in place. They are used in scrapbooking and it only takes one or two to hold each item and I can easily remove the polymer piece if I want to. They will mess up your background though so keep that in mind.

This is a 9″ x 9″ frame and the fish is only about  3  1/2″ from lips to tail, so you could use several in a grouping.

June 12th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: cane mapping, Canes, Fish | 4 comments

Cane Mapping Mosaics With a Little Bling

mosaic bling

These fish with their own bling are a part of a WIP, but I wanted to share them with you today because I am excited about how they look.

It’s one of those slap myself on the forehead moments…ever since I attended a class with Kathleen Dustin, I’ve had every color of  Gilding Material, gold leaf, variegated blue leaf, red variegated and silver too. This class was years ago maybe 2005, can’t remember. Anyway I made a few thing using the techniques I learned in her class and then move to other things.

This metal leaf has just been patiently waiting for me to remember it. Today, 6? years later I incorporated it in these cane mapped mosaic fish. You can learn the basic mosaic technique by signing up for my newsletter in the upper right hand side of this page.

I’ve been framing some of the other fish that I’ve done for my classes and I wanted to create a large piece that contains several  fish and other subjects. So I’m not finished yet, this has exploded me into a whole different group of ideas.  Like I need anymore to add to the ones I haven’t gotten to yet. But maybe I’ll add some of these to the front of the list.

It’s so great to be able to share what I’m doing each day. I know there is someone out there checking in once in awhile, thanks……….

June 4th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: cane mapping, Canes, Fish, mosaic | 10 comments