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Tongues Of Fire Review to see earlier efforts with TOF 10-29-19: First Efforts With Old Clay |
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 First
efforts with making Tongues of Fire beads with the rejuvenated old
polymer clay. I tried three different products and you'd be
surprised to learn which one worked the best. |
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As I wrote to the
CITY-o-Clay Google Group: I have not fallen off of the clay wagon. I've been wrestling with my old clay. As I mentioned in the last video I was tested Sculpey Diluent, Baby Oil, and Translucent Liquid Sculpy TLS, on old clay. Turns out that TLS was not the best thing to use on my black clay, which was just as old and neglected as the red clay. I tossed it in the food processor two more times with TLS and it still was very crumbly when pressed through the pasta machine. So I took a small amount of the black clay, like a sheet that was 3 inches by 5 inches, crumpled it into pieces, and added a few drops of Baby Oil. I mashed it by hand and got the Baby Oil, then I ran it through the pasta machine a half dozen times to distribute the Baby Oil and loo and behold it worked! I didn't know whether to weep or to faint. I tested some Tongues of Fire designs, which I started before the wild fires happened here in California. Now I sort of feel bad for doing TOF but in for a penny - in for a pound, as they used to say. I made a few snake beads, some TOF tear shaped beads, and did chop and toss with scraps. |
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cane on the right was made of layers of white, yellow, red, and black. Sheets stacked and cut into strips less than a half inch wide. I cut four sections off the strips and set them in a cross formation, then pressed them into a circle. I cut another strip as wide as the cane bacame and made a surround layer. Then covered it all with black. I reduced it, cut slices and made the snake beads. I'm not crazy about them, but it's a start. Chop and Toss Natasha beads from scraps. |
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like the tear shape TOF beads more because they show the flame designs
better. I tried making some disks with the cane, using a brown scrap clay inside. They didn't turn out good so I flattened the disk, rolled it up, chopped it and added TOF scraps for those four square natasha beads. The Bi-Cone natashas were with TOF scraps only. |
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this is what I'm aiming for with the Tongues of Fire technique. I took a slice of the cane, flattened it, made a bowl, added a small ball of scrap clay, and pinched it to be the curled end. Pressing the clay into a snake the edges of that cane slice becomes ruffled. When I got to the end of the first ball of scrap clay I added another for the tear shape end. Wrapping the ruffled end of the flattened disk around the scrap clay I pulled over to meet at the tip. The stretching and pulling causes the layers of colors to stretch. That makes the flame effect. |
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