In today’s video I show you a basic and very helpful polymer clay technique. It’s called the Skinner blend and it’s a wonderful way to get shadings of different colors. In the video I go from blue to yellow and my cane turns out to go from dark green to light green.
In this photo you can see some beautiful canes going from a rainbow of colors each to white. Using white and putting it in the center gives that lovely look of glowing light.
(My apologies that I cannot properly attribute this photo. It’s from an empty Etsy store, BySusi. I tried contacting the owner but had no reply. If you know her please let me know so that I can properly credit this photo. it’s a wonderful example of Skinner blends.)
(This photo is also one where I could not contact the author. It’s by Almu on Flickr. Again, if you know her or are her please contact me so I can give proper credit for this wonderful tutorial.)
As you can see by the photo in the upper left this very complex looking cane starts with just a Skinner block, like I will teach you to make, and two bull’s-eye canes, one going from light to dark and the other going from dark to light.
Each is wrapped in black and then reshaped into different shapes and sizes and when you get done at the end you have a gorgeous kaleidoscope of color.
By the way, here are links to the free online classes I mention in the video:
- my classes at CraftArtEdu (one free)
- all free classes at CraftArtEdu
- sign up for their newsletter to receive regular coupons and sales – I’ve never paid full price for a class 🙂
I hope you enjoy this technique and have fun applying it to your polymer clay projects. Be watching on Monday for a jewelry project using a polymer clay Skinner blend.
Enjoy the video and happy creating!
You can watch the Friday Findings-Polymer Clay Skinner Blend Tutorial over at YouTube.
That looks like fun!
It IS fun. I love making the blends and working with them.