{"id":18034,"date":"2013-11-11T03:05:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T11:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18034"},"modified":"2013-11-11T12:40:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T20:40:54","slug":"lietz-teardrop-blend-color-gradients-made-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/lietz-teardrop-blend-color-gradients-made-easy\/18034\/","title":{"rendered":"Lietz Teardrop Blend &#8211; Color Gradients Made Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18034#video\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" alt=\"Lietz Teardrop Blend\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2013-11\/11-90452-lietz-teardrop-blend.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Video #452:<\/span> Making smooth color blends without having to measure &amp; cut out tedious triangle shapes.<\/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;\">Last week I demonstrated how to do 2 different polymer clay color blending techniques&#8230;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">(1) The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18009\/#video\">Stepped Graduated Color Blend<\/a>&#8230; where each color shade is mixed individually by hand and then placed next to each other, to give the impression of blending from one color to the next. It is quite labor intensive and is difficult to get a smooth blend without a lot of work.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">(2) The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18011\/#video\">Skinner Blend Method<\/a>&#8230; created by Judith Skinner, who took a more Scientific approach by cutting out triangles and positioning them to create a much faster and smoother color gradient.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In today&#8217;s video, I am going to share with you my Teardrop Blend. It&#8217;s probably the easiest and fastest way to make professional looking color blends, because it takes most of the measuring and thinking out of the process. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The following link will take you to some of the early <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=2708\/#links\">Lietz Teardrop Blend Articles<\/a> posted here at my Polymer Clay Tutor blog. And you will find even more references by using &#8220;teardrop&#8221; as the keyword in the search box at my blog.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If you have ever had a challenge with doing a Skinner Blend in the past (especially multi colored blends), then you are going to LOVE this Tear Drop Technique!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In today&#8217;s video I show examples of some jewelry items made using Teardrop Color Blends, based on the following PcT Tutorials&#8230;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=16728\/#video\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Easter Lily Cane<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=15955\/#video\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Sweet Pea Earrings<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=14979\/#video\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Frosted Rainbow Flower Beads<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=17362\/#video\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Coneflower Beads<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=13628\/#video\">Parrot Tulip Beads<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">With my Lietz Teardrop Blend you can easily create the same color blends using teardrop shapes of clay in any number of colors, without measuring cutting or needing to use math at all. You can even control the amounts of clay by simply changing the size of teardrop you start out with.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I originally developed this technique about 10 years ago, by accident. I was rolling out shapes of clay, trying to figure out something new to make, and ended up laying out some teardrop shapes next to each other in an alternating fashion. It was then that I realized the shapes actually resembled triangles, and that they would probably make a great start for a Skinner Blend. Then with some tweaking, I came up with this easier and faster way to blend polymer clay colors&#8230; and never looked back!<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a name=\"video\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nLAfFTcfSA8?rel=0\" height=\"323\" width=\"575\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Challenge of the Day:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">What I would like you to do, is go grab your favorite colors of polymer clay, and go make yourself a Teardrop Blend. Then come back and tell us how it went, in the comment section below.<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=nLAfFTcfSA8\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">Lietz Teardrop Blend &#8211; Polymer Color Blends Made Easy<\/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 #452: Making smooth color blends without having to measure &amp; cut out tedious triangle shapes.<\/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-18034","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\/18034","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=18034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}