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Vol-083-1: Video #645: Introduction: In this 6 part video tutorial series, you will learn how to use some polymer clay colors, a tiny stretched canvas, some glaze and a couple of simple tools, to create wonderful textural landscape paintings… using polymer clay as your medium instead of traditional paints. You will be thrilled at the new possibilities… from making painterly blended backgrounds… to mixing your own polymer paints… to creating dimensional elements… and even making your own custom glazes. There is definitely a lot packed into this awesome tutorial.
Vol-083-2: Video #646: Landscape Blend: In this video, I’ll teach you how to create a fantastic color blend that looks exactly like a landscape. Depending on the colors you choose, your landscape could be rolling hills, a sunset at the beach, an Arizona desert… it really is up to you. And the whole thing is done with just a couple tablespoons of polymer clay! It doesn’t have to be new clay either it can be done in scrap bits of clay, in the colors of your choice.
Vol-083-3: Video #647: Clay On Canvas: In this video, you will learn the tips and tricks for adding your landscape blends to a miniature stretched canvas. I’ll share with you the secrets of getting seamless edges where the design wraps sound the outsides of the canvas, as if you had laid the strokes there with a brush or a palette knife. You will also learn the correct baking process for these tiny polymer paintings, and why it’s important to bake for less time than what I normally recommend for polymer clay. These techniques will work on any size canvas or canvas board. Other surfaces such as boxes, frames and jewelry would be a fun option as well.
Vol-083-4: Video #648: Polymer Painting: In this video, I’ll show you a neat way to mix up your own polymer paints, using both solid and liquid polymer clay. Then I’ll demonstrate how to apply the paint with proper contrast, shading and highlights, just like you would do with a painting done in traditional oils or acrylics. You will also learn how to use an artists palette knife… and how to bake the elements or layers of your painting that you do like… so that you can easily remove what you don’t like… without actually damaging what you do like. It will all become clear when you watch the video.
Vol-083-5: Video #649: 3Dimensional Elements: In this video, you will learn how to add 3D sculptural elements to your polymer clay paintings. I will show you how to form these elements and attach them to your canvas. I’ll also discuss the importance of making barrier layers, so that mistakes can safely be erased if necessary. You’ll learn how to make an abstract spring tree in this lesson… but the ideas and techniques can be extended to all kinds of different features and embellishments depending on the theme of your landscape painting. Again, the options are only limited by your own imagination!
Vol-083-6: Video #650: Glazing And Highlighting: In this video, You’ll learn how to bring your polymer clay landscape painting to life, using your own custom made glazes and proper finishing techniques. Layers of glazing medium bring a lovely sheen and depth to the piece, while giving a rich tone to the colors and an overl all professional look. You are going to love what you learn in this action packed tutorial series! I can’t wait to see your inner Rembrandt revealed!
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1-A: Kelp 2-A: Pikes Weed 3-A: Coralina 4-A: Seaweed . . . |
Kelp is the golden brown color of the wavy sheets of kelp seaweed first up from the left, on the branch of driftwood. Pikes Weed is the name for the dusty coral pink of the seaweed next in line, with the long pearly strands. Then comes Coralina which is the ruffled bright pink clumps of Red Algae (not technically a seaweed at all). And Seaweed is the dark green color of the Sea Lettuce seaweed chunks, intertwined amongst the other more colorful varieties.
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Customer Reviews: Polymer Clay Landscape Painting (6 Videos):
- You have GOT to be a mind reader! How did you know that I was looking for exactly this type of technique? ~Patt-W
- I always wanted to do something like this! Since I retired, a year ago last November, I wanted to get back into painting. Now, it looks like I will but with polymer clay!!! Yeah!!! ~Catalina-L
- Thanks, Cindy. Once again you and Doug have come up with a fascinating tutorial. No prize for guessing where I am headed first thing tomorrow… to the art store for mini canvasses! An idea occurred while watching… for those of us who do not have any spare canvas lying around maybe we can set side one of the mini canvasses in the 4 pack and use that for texture? Right now I am seeing a saguaro in an Arizonan landscape. I’ll have the colours picked out before the canvas is bought home :-) This tutorial is a Bobby Dazzler as we say in Australia :-)) ~Chrissie-F
- Just watched your take on mini polymer paintings. Really turned out cute and I love that you can use up all those scrappy bits and pieces. I used to make trees paintings from dough and used to add fluffy animals, like sheep, rabbits etc. Thanks Cindy we are all going to have some fun….cheers xx. ~Elaine-F
- That is very much like the way I do my covered jars. I make the little footballs for the leaves also but find that a straight pin pressed gently along the length make a very nice imprint down the middle of the leaf and doesn’t lift it away as the larger surface of the ball stylus does. It also makes it easier to lift and place the leaf onto the tree. I love the way you did the trunks too. I was making larger snakes for the trunks flattening them somewhat then once again dragging the straight pin up and down and along the branches to make the bark surface. Now that I have finally gotten the discs in my neck removed and replaced with grafts and the thyroid is finally removed, I can sit and work without pain or other symptoms that had made it impossible to do much of anything for so long and now that I am fully recovered I have been wanting to get back to work and this was the perfect tutorial. My empty jars have been piling up so there is a shelf full of fun waiting for me to get started. Thanks again for bringing just the right thing at just the right time. ~Cheyrl-B
- Love this tutorial! I’ve been wanting to try some clay painting! I’m not a painter but your method makes it look so easy! ~Gayle-T
- Well – you came thru AGAIN!!!!!!!!! So exciting. As an old (!) landscape oil painter, I can really run with this. I did get 5×7″ canvases, as I used to paint on 18×24″, 5×7 seems tiny to me. You have opened up a new avenue to to explore! I can hardly wait… My canvases will be here Sat…. jumping up and down….. BIG GRIN!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!! I REALLY MEAN IT!!!!!!!!! ~Patt-W
- These are adorable little canvas’es. I watched another tutorial from the Polymer Clay Adventure and was fascinated with painting with polymer. It was a much longer more tedious project. When I found out you were having this, I decide to wait on buying any canvas so I could see what you were going to be doing. I am glad I did. Pre-making the background in all one sheet is a brillant idea. I loved the way the seascape bracelet turned out so your technique is much simpler and saves a lot of time. I’ll bet this would work great on glass also. Thanks Cindy, you came up with another winner. ~DixieAnn-S
- I liked the way these polymer clay landscape paintings looked in the demo, but I was convinced it was beyond me to do. But after watching the full tutorial I can see that it’s not complicated at all and really does look like an oil painting. ~Mama-H
- I just bought some small canvas squares. Now I know what I am going to do with them. Don’t think this will be one of my most often used tutorials but I am still very excited to try it out. If I enjoy this and don’t have a lot of difficulty with it I am going to try it on some glass jars also. Do a lot of candy and recipe ingredients in jars at Christmas for gifts so a snowy scene painted on them using this technique is a great idea to improve my gifts with a more personal touch. Thanks again for delivering a tutorial to yet improve my artistic talents even more. Great Tute Cindy and Doug!!! ~Peggy-B
- Patt, your landscape sounds great! Craggy is a word – a very good one to describe a landscape :-) Love your coining of the Artistic License – it certainly suits what Cindy and Doug have given us with this tutorial. ~Chrissie-F
- Hi Cindy, well well, I do have these small canvases on the easel stands. This is a wonderful tutorial for these size canvases. Often thought about Polymer painting but never got to it. Now with your tuition, no excuses. Just awesome to watch. Poly clay being my first love, so adore watching your very informative tuts. I don’t get in here as much as I would like (I am fortunate to have been here with you for so long), but know when I do, there is always something more than interesting to blow my mind. Keep up your wonderful work. Bye from Oz, love you all, and thanks Cindy for a great tut once again. ~Elizabeth-K
- After I finished the back ground on this canvas, I liked it so well that I changed my mind as to the finishing. So far, the background looks (to me anyway LOL) like a craggy (is that a word?) landscape. I was going to add a saguaro or a Palo Verde Tree, but….. think I will do another canvas, while I decide. I really don’t want to cover up this background…… THIS IS SOOOOOOO MUCH FUN !!!!!!!!!!!!! I love that you gave us so many ideas, and it is like a smorgasbord – pick and choose what you like….. Sort of ARTISTIC LICENSE,TY for such a lovely tute!! ~Patt-W
- Thank you for all the work that Doug does filming and getting the camera zoomed in just perfectly so we can see it as if we are there, and his help on the computer end as some of us are not as computer savvy. And I do appreciate all that you do with your knowledge of clay and the recipes. The colors in Premo are beautiful, but you soon find yourself wanting to not make everything the same color as you learn more about making jewelry. Thanks again. ~Suzanne-H
- Thanks Cindy. I just finished watching the “painting” video and enjoyed it. I’ve been getting your newsletters at a different email address (one that I use for free subscriptions) and have enjoyed your free tuts. When I saw your intro painting video with its gorgeous backgrounds in the newsletter I just had to finally join your site and up my game. I had made my first pendant depicting the view out of my window about a year ago when I first started playing with polymer clay. I just smooched clay until it was really oozy and gooey and used my fingers and a toothpick to smoosh and layer away. I’m excited to make some new items using these techniques! Thanks for the great videos and the fast response to my support inquiry. ~Anne-H
- Cindy, in addition to great videos, you always supply exceptional support too. Thanks again. ~Christie-AH
Customer Reviews: Seaweed A-series Color Palette (4 Recipe Cards):
- This palette is beautiful. Nature puts together the perfect palette! ~Cherie-H
- Oh yummy, what a luscious palette. The colors look so festive all thrown together like that. Nice Photo Doug! I never would have believed the colors would all go together so well. Leave it up to you Cindy for another winner! ~DixieAnn-S
- Don’t think I have ever used the word “luscious” to describe seaweed, but there ya go, it fits. They are, Cannot wait to use the recipes, might add a tinge of green to really make the red combo pop. As always, your descriptions and musings take me back to my favorite memories. I smelt the ocean, heard it lapping, and saw the possibilities with our native Irish Moss varieties. ~Jocelyn-C
- The Mermaid’s Scarfs… A Poem By Elaine Faulks
She perched on the wet rocks, combing her hair
This pretty mermaid, oh so fair
Her scarfs were draped in fine array
Now, which one should I wear today?
This Kelp will contrast with my flaming curls
Or to choose another to match my pearls?
I think I will ask this crustacean creature
The one to choose to enhance my best feature.
“Well I’m too busy” he sadly said
“But my favorite color is firey red,
Whatever you choose will look just great,
Tell me, are you going on a special Date?”
Yes, she replied and I must not tarry
Tonight at the Ball I hope to marry.
He’s tall and dark and his hair is Green
And if all goes well he will make me his Queen.
She slipped off the rocks and dived into the water
To meet her true love, later on, at the Altar
Trailing all the scarfs behind
As she still couldn’t really make up her mind.
But we’ll never know what one she wore
Pink or red, gold or green
In this secret rite to make her a Queen.
So if you walk by the shore
Pay attention my dears
For among all the pieces left there at high tide
You might find the one that was worn by our Bride.
~Elaine Faulks
- I really like the picture format with the palette samples because it can inspire you to create using that particular palette of colors. Sometimes you have the color cards in front of you and it takes awhile to decide how you will incorporate them into your piece whether it be jewelry or something else. Thanks so much and looking forward to new recipes… keep them coming! ~Lupe-M
- I do love your color palettes. I find fabulous inspiration and I’ve actually started saving the recipes now (when I first started I didn’t) but I have actually mixed up very few of them because somehow I feel like I’m cheating if I do (not that anyone else should feel this way, it’s my Color Theory and Design professor’s voice in my head). But I use them as inspiration for my own color mixing times and I find them utterly invaluable. Thank you so much for the inspiration! ~Melinda-H
- Cindy! Thanks so much for all of your striking palettes…your color recipes are just phenomenal! ~Phaedrakat
- Your colors are so beautiful! One of my clay resolutions for the new year is to use only custom colors from the library in my creations — as much as possible, anyway. ~Elizabeth-S
- I do love the idea of using nature as a palette and creating Skinner blends. My mom always told me that to match colors, “…ask the pansies. If God put it on a flower you can wear it too”. The photo reminds me of her, and makes me want to work on more blends based on nature. ~TK
- I love how you interact with nature, Cindy. It is also an inspiration when you share how you come by your palettes. I picture myself walking the beach with you. Looking forward to seeing what this artistic community will do with it as well as what you will show us sometime soon. ~Joyce-M
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