How To: Creating a Skinner Blend
Published: September 13, 2004
Here's a quick rundown of how to make a Skinner bland with polymer clay. You can also watch our video on this technique - just check out the yellow links at the bottom of this page.
Skinner Blend:
Run two different colors of clay through the pasta machine separately and cut each slab into a rectangle. Cut each rectangle diagonally to make two triangles of each color.
Fit a triangle of the first color next to a triangle of the second color so that the diagonal edges meet [1]. Run the bicolored rectangle through the pasta machine once or twice to fuse the seam.
Fold the slab in half, bringing the short edges together [2].
Run the slab through the pasta machine three to four times, folded-edge first [3].
Repeat steps 2 and 3 five times until the colors begin to make a smooth gradation. |