Friday, December 17, 2010

Make Polymer Clay Beads With a Flower Pattern

Making polymer beads with flowers is really easy, and between caning and sculpture the options are limitless as to what can be done with them. When most people think of flower beads, the first thing that comes to mind are beads done with a basic five-petal bull's-eye flower cane. This cane takes only three or four colors for the most basic manifestation of it and takes very little time. First, roll your main flower color into an even log. Cut that log into five pieces, then arrange around a like-sized log that is your center color (generally yellow, or a darker shade of the main color). Place wedges of a contrasting color around the arranged...

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Folk Art Pottery Face Jugs

Pottery face jugs are storage jugs that have been designed as a normal jug might be with the exception that the side has been decorated with a distorted face. These faces may appear humorous or they may look more sinister and scary. They first started appearing in the US around the 1700s, predominantly in the southern states of South Carolina and Georgia. There are a few stories about the origins of face jugs...

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