{"id":18011,"date":"2013-11-07T03:05:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T11:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18011"},"modified":"2013-11-08T17:57:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T01:57:23","slug":"polymer-clay-skinner-blend-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-skinner-blend-instructions\/18011\/","title":{"rendered":"Polymer Clay Skinner Blend Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18011#video\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" alt=\"Stepped Graduated Color Blend\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2013-11\/07-90356-pt0-skinner-blend-instructions.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Video #356:<\/span> Combining triangles geometrically so that your colors blend into smooth gradients.<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080; font-size: large;\"><strong>Topics Covered In This Video:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">How to make a Skinner Blend &#8211; A polymer clay color blend that gradually shifts from one color to another.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You can make a 2 color Skinner Blend from white to black for example. Or you can have a multi-color blend that more like a rainbow.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In a previous video I demonstrated the old school way of making a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/stepped-graduated-color-blend-gradients\/18009\/\">Stepped Graduated Color Blend<\/a>, where you mix individual colors by hand in stepped proportions from one pure color to another pure color, with multiple hand mixed shades in between.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A few years ago (20yrs? or so), a polymer clay artist by the name of Judith Skinner, developed a technique that made blending from one color to another, much faster and simpler.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In this video I show you how to make a two color Skinner Blend. You will see the biggest effect if you use two colors of polymer clay that have high contract.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I then demonstrate how to make an Off-Set Skinner Blend.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In a future video I will show you how I developed an even faster way to make color blends&#8230; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/lietz-teardrop-blend-color-shifts-polymer-clay-tutorial-video\/13005\/\">Lietz Teardrop Method<\/a>.<a name=\"video\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZEfaZItHWek?rel=0\" height=\"431\" width=\"575\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: large; color: #808080;\">Question of the Day:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Have you ever made one of these Skinner Blends? And do you have an challenges making them?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">By the way, if you have a polymer clay question or challenge you&#8217;d like me to address in an upcoming video vlog, do post it in the comments below. I&#8217;d love to help you find quicker and easier ways to bring up the professionalism in your polymer clay art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808080;\">Oh and don&#8217;t forget to give these videos a<em> Thumbs Up<\/em> click at YouTube if you are enjoying them. The more <em>Likes<\/em> a video gets, the higher it rises in the searches. And that means even more people will be able to join in on this polymer clay journey of a lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Also, by subscribing to our YouTube Channel directly, you will receive notifications as soon as new videos are uploaded. To subscribe, click here&#8230;<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZEfaZItHWek\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">How To Make A Polymer Clay Skinner Blend<\/a><span style=\"color: #808080;\">. The Subscribe Button is right near the top of that YouTube page.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Looking forward to hearing from you!<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 575px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 200px;\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cindy Lietz Signature\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/cindy-sig.jpg\" width=\"114\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Tutor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutor.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video #356: Combining triangles geometrically so that your colors blend into smooth gradients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2663],"tags":[2679],"class_list":["post-18011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pct-mini-tutes","tag-patterns-sheets-color-gradients-mokume-gane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}