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Advanced Millefiori 2
A sequel for those who want to create more advanced Millefiori designs. Learn how to make face canes, lacy spider web designs, decorative plaid patterns, intricate moon & stars canes, then personalize your projects with a signature cane.
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Advanced Millefiori Techniques 1
Learn how to create a variety of intricate Millefiori designs. Make woven canes, cathedral glass, sunflower, rose and leaf, and attractive butterfly canes using Skinner shaded rods of color. Take the mystery out of making the complex Millefiori designs, one of the most popular polymer clay techniques. Canes can be miniaturized and applied to dollhouse projects.
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Creating Vessels (Master Artisans: Polymer Clay)
As I viewed the tapes, I was impressed by the careful balance Kato strikes between project-oriented and technique-oriented material. Those who need to see a completed project in order to visualize the end result could work though the instructions from start to finish and happily complete jewelry or home decor items. An experienced viewer could pick up new techniques just by watching, then apply them to her own work.
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Imitating Metal
Transform common objects found around your home into decorator pieces. Learn how to simulate gold, copper, bronze and other metal effects using special pigments, then make decorative impressions on the surface of the clays using rubber stamps, push molds and ordinary household items.
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Introduction to Polymer Clays
Transform ordinary objects around your home into artistic treasures. Let renown Master Polymer Clay Artisan, Donna Kato, take you on a tour of the many ways you can use the new clays, the most versatile and user-friendly art medium available. Simply bake it in your home oven and within minutes, the clay is "cured." Learn how to make a simple lime cane, sculpt a bear, create molds, simulate stone, decorate with mosaics, transfer images, plus many other easy to follow techniques and projects.
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Millefiori Basics
Enter the world of millefiori canes, a technique borrowed from ancient glassworkers. Let Master Polymer Clay Artisan, Donna Kato, show you how to simulate stained glass or batik fabric; make jellyrolls and rainbow checkerboard patterns; create a flower cane, then "reduce" or miniaturize the picture; and for fun, learn how to make a watermelon.
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Potpourri of Techniques (Master Artisans: Polymer Clay)
If you have tried working with polymer clay and would like to learn a variety of possible designs using the clay, try this tape. Be warned that the instructor uses a great deal of clay, which can get expensive. If you don't already own some of the tools needed for the projects you may incur some added expenses for these as well.
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Sculpting Whimsical Faces
Learn how to sculpt whimsical expressions starting from any face mold using polymer clay, the clays that "cure" right in your home oven. Create whimsical expressions from an endearing toothy smile, to anger, to an outright cry. Make an elderly grandma, a Bandido, a cigar smoking lady, a wicked witch and many more delightful characters.
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