Be careful so that you get the same patterns on each side of the triangles together, if not your pattern will not make any sense and you loose the kaleidoscope pattern. If the cane now is too soft, put it in the fridge for half an hour. I prefer the last approach as I then can get several patterns, not just one, so I will do that here. You can either cut the cane in 6 pieces and put them together into a kaleidoscope cane, or you can cut slices and put them together on the work surface. This cane is only one sixth of the total kaleidoscope pattern, so reduce it quite a bit, or the finished pattern will be very large. You do this by carefully pinching and pushing it thinner lengthwise on the work surface, and twisting and pulling it with your hands. When the cane is shaped well into a triangle, you need to reduce it. Try to get the ridges as sharp as you can. Use a glass plate or something similar to flatten the three sides thoroughly and with as little distortion of the pattern as possible. And place the skinner blend canes in the curves on each side of it, as you can see on the picture.Ĭarefully begin to shape the patterned cane into a triangle. Put the two halves of the translucent cane against the flat sides of the bulls eye cane. Split the black bulls eye cane in two halves, and put them together again with the vaulted sides against each other. Do the same with the translucent bulls eye cane.Ĭut all three canes in two and in the same length. Reduce the skinner blend cane to the thickness of a pencil. Wrap the log in the white sheet, and then the black sheet. Run white and black clay through the pasta machine on a medium setting. Run white cay through the pasta machine on the thickest setting and wrap the black log in it. Put it aside.Ĭondition some more white, translucent and black clay. Roll the strip into a cane starting on the white side. When it is thoroughly blended, run it through the pasta machine on thinner and thinner settings, until you have a long strip ranging from white to black. Make a graduated skinner blend with black and white clay. Condition the clay and roll them through the pasta machine on the thickest setting. You are going to make three canes for this kaleidoscope pattern. I have used only black, white and Translucent clay in this tutorial, but you can of course use colors of you own choice. Are you ready to give it a try? OK! Let's start on your first kaleidoscope cane. Then you shape this cane into a triangular cane, cut slices and put them together into marvellous pattern. You make a patterned cane from several canes put together. This will make the clay firm enough to hold the pattern while you work. You can however put the canes in the freezer or fridge for half an hour after you have made them, and do the same when you have made the patterned cane. If the clay is to soft, the patterns will be uneven and it may be difficult to get the pattern remain the way it was meant to. The firmer the clay, the less distortion of the pattern. The kind of clay you use for caning may be the key to flop or success. What is good I keep, what is not, becomes scrap clay. I am no big master at this art, and use the last approach most. But despair not, you sometimes get some amazing result from randomly put together canes also. To be good at this, you need to have a perspective on how they will complement one another when you put 4-6 slices together into a pattern. In the long run, it all boils down to simple canes being put together to enhance one another and together build a pattern which is again put together into another pattern, and so on. Some polymer clay artists master the art of caning to perfection, and create pattern that seems impossible to achieve for mortal polymer clay artists like me. The use of contrasting colors can make striking patterns and toned down colors leaves a hint of mystery to your designs. It is a wonderful way to use leftover canes. You can naturally not change the patterns rapidly, but using simple canes, you can make several patterns one slice at a time. Working with polymer clay, you can make your own kaleidoscopes. And there is something magic about them, their varying patterns, the lovely colors and the mystery of how they are made. I was awestruck by the beauty they presented, just as I was as a kid. He even had a big one in which you could see the surroundings through a pattern changing lens. He used the beat of music to change the patterns, made some of seeds and pearls, buttons and pins.
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