If you don’t want your colors to blend together in your canes you can put a very thin sheet (thinnest setting on your pasta machine) of white between your colors. This acts as a barrier and helps keep the colors separate with no bleeding.

As far as distortion, this happens if you get air spaces when packing your backgrounds, even tiny ones. Distortion also happens when the clays are different softness’. The softer clay will move faster than the hard clay and will quickly distort.

Sorry my question wasn’t very clear. I try to make petrogliph cane and by the time I reduce it all the colors and the shape of the image gets distorted and colors are all blended together. I like and use fimo only. What I meant by making the base was I try to make a block about two inches high of the base color and cut the shape of the image in there and then fit the image inside the base, which it didn’t work. Then I tried to creat the image about one inch and build the background around it and then reduce it. That didn’t work either. By the way the background color usually is mixed of different colors or just translucent.

Do you have a DVD as to how to make petrogliph with Polymer Clay?

Thanks
Rezvan

Are you trying to build a cane? Or trying to use little strips of clay for the design? Or something else?

When I make this petroglyph in clay I make a 3-D cane and the cane is built in steps. I couldn’t really explain how to do it here in the comments but do plan on doing some image canes in video soon. If you would like to look at another similar type of cane click the link by my name.

Thank you
Rezvan

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