Hi guys, its Cindy Lietz, your Polymer Clay
Tutor, and today’s PcT Mini Tute, I’m
going to show you how to do a Teardrop blend
shift.Now this is a really neat little trick
for color mixing that I figured out a few
years ago, and it’s actually fairly similar
in a way to the ‘Color Plus One’ method
that I taught in a previous tutorial, but
this has to do with working with color blends.Now
recently, I showed you how to do the Rainbow
Teardrop blend, which is a multicolored Skinner
blend that is very easy to do…and if you
don’t know how to do that, check that out
in our previous video, but there’s some
cool things that we can do with a blend like
this, we have…I mean there’s canes and
all kinds of stuff, but you can also shift
these colors a bit.
We’ve got a fairly pure Rainbow happening
here, a little on the pastel side because
of the types of colors we used, but you can
also shift this to another color way, and
first I’ll show you what that is.
Now I can take a sheet of White clay, and
I have quite a thin sheet here, it’s just
about 4 cards…playing cards thick, and I
can just take a section of my Rainbow blend…and
you can play with this, you could do all kinds
of different amounts that you want, and I’m
just gonna lay it right on top of my sheet
of White clay, then what I’m gonna do is
I’m going to run it through the pasta machine
just like I was doing a color blend, so I’ve
got it here, just gonna fold it in half.
Now right now it is just normal with some
White behind it, but as I continue to fold
in half and run through the pasta machine,
what will happen is that White clay will get
evenly distributed through that whole Rainbow
blend and it will lighten the whole thing
up, which is really cool.
So you could really play with this and get
all kinds of different color combinations,
you can see it’s starting to happen here,
and I will just fold this and make it a little
easier to deal with, I’m gonna push it in
on each end, ‘cause once it gets too wide,
it won’t run through the machine very well
anymore, and now what I’ll do is just control
it at the sides, keep it from getting too
wide, and we’ll continue to run it through
the machine.
Now right now, it just looks like a weird
mess…kind of a cool weird mess, but as the
colors get thoroughly mixed together, you
will have a nice pastel blend.
Now let me just do this a few more times,
‘cause you don’t wanna sit here and watch
me do that, so… and then I’ll come and
show you what it looks like when it’s blended
further.
Okay, isn’t this cool, what’s happening
here?
Now as you can see, the whole blend, there’s
a rainbow happening in here, but it’s a
lot lighter, and that what I call the shift,
now you don’t only have to use White, you
can use all sorts of other colors.
I’ve taken this same blend, and mixed in…
on here I’ve mixed in a little bit of 18
karat Gold Premo, on this one I added a little
bit of Black to it, and you can see it’s
quite a bit darker, you almost lose the Rainbow
but you get this kinda neat pastel thing happening,
and then on this one here, I mixed it with
Ecru clay.
And I’ve done this before, any of my members
that have been around for a long time know
about this, but I’ve got another sheet here
to show you that you can do all kinds of different
types of colors as well.
Now here is a Rainbow blend that’s done
with much brighter colors, this is done with
some of the metallic colors, actually they
don’t make them anymore, otherwise I’d
show you how to do them, but there’s a Red
metallic, a Gold, a Blue Pearl, there was
a Red Pearl, and then like there’s a…I
don’t know, another Red Pearl, anyways,
so that’s how that blend looks.
I showed that I did the same blend in a Skinner
blend, the traditional way that everybody
does it, then I also did the blend with the
Teardrop blend, and you can see they are identical,
so as long as you’re using the same colors,
you get the same blend, and then here are
the shifts that I did with it.
Now I took a little strip and added different
colors and shifted them different directions,
so this first strip shows that I didn’t
add anything to it, and you can see that it’s
the same as it was before.
Now this one I shifted using White clay, and
it’s quite pastel looking.
This one I shifted with Black clay, and you
can hardly see the Rainbow at all in this
one.
This one I shifted using Ecru clay, and it
has kind of an earthy pastel look to it.
This one I used Cadmium Yellow to shift it,
and you can use whatever color you want, and
I was quite surprised to see that I ended
up with kind of a Coppery color at one end
and totally Green on this end, so it really
didn’t have much of a Rainbow look at all
to it after it was shifted with the yellow.
Now, here I shifted it with Raw Sienna which
is kind of a light Brown color, and it’s
also made it quite earthy looking.
And this last one I shifted with Translucent,
the color didn’t change much, but if you
were to bake it, you would notice the difference.
So this really gives you a ton of options
with any of your color blends, you can add
a little bit of a color, or a lot of a color,
you can add a lot of your blend or just a
little bit of your blend, and you can get
a much wider range from the same sheet of
color.
So I hope you learned something from that,
do let me know if you liked this video.
And if you have any ideas or comments, things
that you would like help with, other types
of issues that you would like me to make a
video on, make sure to leave those in the
comment section below.
So we’ll see you next time and bye for now.
