May 12, 2008
A Basic Skinner Blend Polymer Clay Cane Project
Tip #53: Very Simple To make… Yet Oh So Versatile To Use In So Many Other Polymer Clay Creations:
The most basic skinner blend cane is essentially a jelly roll cane made from one layer of color blended clay. In comparison, a standard jelly roll cane is made using multiple layers of clay, each layer being a different color.
If you start to roll your skinner blend at the dark edge of the clay, then the resulting jelly roll cane will be dark in the center and light around the outside. On the other hand, if you start rolling from the light edge of the skinner sheet, then the cane will end up with a light center and a darker outside surface.
In future posts, I'll talk about how to use slices from these skinner blend canes to make beautiful flower canes.
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"Skinner Blend Canes" Video Description: The full version of this tutorial is currently posted in the VIP backstage members area. In it I demonstrate how to roll a couple different kinds of skinner blend canes.
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Cindy Lietz from Polymer Clay Skinner Blend Technique @ 6:23 pm
Sometimes when one of your colors in your Skinner Blend is more dominant, most of the blend will be tinted that color. For example if you make a Skinner blend of Alizarin Crimson and White, the blend will be mostly red fading to a smaller portion of pink and an even tinier amount of white.
To balance the colors better in your Skinner Blend Cane add a log of white to the center before rolling (white in the center, red on the outside) or wrap the cane in white after rolling (red in the center, white on the outside).
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