MASTERING THE NEW CLAY
Instructional series on DVD and VHS
Volume 1:
Foundations: Beginning Workshop
Everything you need to start now!
Includes all the information you’ll need to begin work in polymer clay.
- Make five finished pieces
- Learn polymer’s most popular techniques
- Try a variety of polymer clays
- Watch excerpts from later classes
- Your finished pieces will include:
a whimsical brooch,
a collection of beads
a small decorative bowl.
- Supplemental materials are enclosed, including a materials list and reference card
90 minutes
Volume 2-B:
Metallic Surface Techniques
Shimmer! Sparkle! Luster!
Create beautiful surfaces using metallic foils and powders.
- Learn to use composite metal foils and leaf, texturing and embossing with metallic powders, metallicized applique, and stenciling with metallic powders.
- Your finished pieces will include:
a four-bead necklace,
a barrette,
a paperweight.
- Create a workbook of unique design examples for your studio.
- Combine these approaches to personalize your esthetic.
Supplemental materials enclosed, inclulding materials list and artist’s workbook for your samples.
80 minutes
Volume 2-A:
Introduction to Surface Techniques
Images and textures galore!
Introduces a rich sampling of surface effects for jewelry and objects.
- Learn flecking, texturing, embossing, applique, prebaked inlay, photocopy transfer, and the use of paint.
- Finish this class with two completed pieces
- Compile workbook of design samples for your ongoing work
- Supplemental materials enclosed, with materials and tools list, tyour artist's workbook, a copyright-free photo transfer, and an optional drawn outline for the first project.
77 minutes
Volume 4:
Molds, Stamps and Tools
Create your own unique molds and tools!
All you need to make molds, stamps, and tools with polymer clays.
- Make personalized tools that suit your hands and your own projects
- Learn:
Shallow press molds
Dimensional molds
Rolling molds
Two-sided positives
Mold releases
Paints and polishes to finish
- Make and use stamping instruments - You will finish:
a set of molds and tools
a mirror frame
a bookmark
Supplemental materials: a list of materials and an illustrated review of mold-making basics.
85 minutes
Volume 3:
Bead Shapes
Invent your own bead shapes!
This tape shows how to form a huge variety of bead shapes, and ideas for further variations.
- Start with basic shapes done well.
- Learn to modify and vary them into dozens of alternatives.
- Create multi-holed beads
- Learn to to incorporate these into your jewelr
- Also a great 'quick trick' for heart-shaped beads.
Supplemental materials: a list of materials and tools
86 minutes
Volume 5:
Buttons and Embellishments
For your textile projects!
Includes all you need for a variety of buttons and embellishments .
- Understand the basic engineering of the polymer button
-- Learn specifics of attaching polymer to fabric
- Make buttons with varying shapes and surface treatments:
Design patterns into clay body
- a randomized pattern
- a coil
- a cane.
- Create buttons using molds and metallic powders
- Incorporate yarns and threads
Supplemental materials: a list of materials and tools
82 minutes
Volume 6:
Mokume Gane
The ultimate ‘oh wow!’
Create endlessly gorgeous and varying patterned layers of polymer!
Mokume gane , and ancient Japaneses technique, rhymes with ‘show new clay all day'.
- Learn the basic process that creates these stunning layers.
- Learn a more complex 7-step method for beautiful finished pieces.
- Expand your design range:
use different colors,
use different opacities,
use metallic foil effects
- You’ll make:
a large round bead,
a flattened pendant bead,
a barrette, and
four brooches
Supplemental materials and tools list enclosed.
90 minutes
Volume 7:
Vessels - Boxes, Pots and Bowls
Contain yourself and your art!
Create beautiful vessels from polymer clays. Three different and very useful approaches to vessels!
- Make a bowl, and see how to vary it
-Learn a caning technique to pattern this bowl.
- Make a cylindrical pot, learning a very versatile approach to shapes you will love!
- Make a rectangular box
- Learn how to create a fitted lid
Supplemental materials include an optional diagram for the rectangular box, and a materials list.
80 minutes
Volume 8:
Recreating Turquoise and Lapis
Learn to imitate Turquoise and Lapis from the one who invented these stunning and influential techniques!
All the information you need to create beautiful jewelry and objects that simulate the colors and textures of turquoise and lapis lazuli.
- Learn how to imitate two kinds of turquoise bead:
a Southwestern turquoise nugget,
a Chinese turquoise disc.
- Learn to make a sumptuous flat lapis lazuli pendant.
- Learn antiquing and finishing techniques for polymer clays.
Supplemental materials and tools list included
77 minutes
Volume 9: Recreating Bone and Ivory
Learn to imitate exciting ivory and bone from the one who invented these stunning and influential techniques!
- Learn to make a clay body that mimics ivory and bone
- Learn a caning technique to make a checkerboard cane
- Carve into the baked surface
- Sand and use paint for antique effects
- Create pre-baked inlays.
- Embed mosaic-like pieces replicating coral, turquoise, and tiny checkerboards
- Learn finishing techniques of sanding and polishing
- Make three different types of beads:
a flat pendant,
a curving tusk
shell heishi.
Supplemental materials and tools list included
112 minutes