Some rules are meant to be broken, especially if you are Teresa from Polymer Claydate with Pandora.
As an award-winning, self-taught clay artist, Teresa isn’t afraid to push the boundaries and bring her students along for the ride.
Tired of typical polymer clay caning techniques, Teresa created her own style of mixing sculpting and caning to create stunning designs. (You can try her ‘scayning’ technique with her Polymer Clay Picture Frame Craft lesson.)
“After a while I wasn't satisfied with just slicing cane and putting it side by side,” said Teresa. “I had the desire to bend it and to see what it would do in another dimension.”
Interested in trying polymer clay art for yourself? Now is a great time to get started.
“When Autumn kicks in I fall in love with caning all over again,” she said. “When it’s nice outside I feel guilty spending hours a day making cane, but as soon as it get’s cold I don’t have to feel guilty about it anymore.”
All you need is a clay or pasta machine, a sharp blade, and at least two colors of clay to get started according to Teresa.
To see more from Teresa from Polymer Claydate with Pandora, check out her Polymer Clay Kaledioscope Caning course. Keep an eye out for running column in Polymer Cafe Magazine and her book “The Cane Mutiny: Bending Millefiore” coming out in 2015.
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