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Curious Mondo: Creating Realistic Mushrooms from Polymer Clay
Time table:
9 hours
Level:
Beginning / Intermediate / Advanced
Target market:
Sculptors, polymer clay artists
Main objective:
Learn how to create realistic looking mushrooms from polymer clay
Prerequisite:
None
Class 01:
- About the instructor
- Supplies needed
- Cremini Mushrooms: Clay prep (crackled surface)
- Psilocybin Mushrooms: Clay prep (Skinner Blend variation)
Class 02:
- White Elm Oyster Mushrooms: Create a sublime, glowing, luminescent clay mixture
- Apply Mushroom shaping processes
- Impress and form mushroom
- Create “gills” with innovative usage of standard studio tools
- Add “blush” to mushroom throat
- Cure using highly effective and advanced curing methods
Class 03:
- Cremini Mushrooms: Layer and manipulate mushroom cap
- Form and apply sturdy and durable stem
- Cure using highly effective and advanced processes
Class 04:
- Cremini Mushrooms: Style variations
Class 05:
- Psilocybin Mushrooms: Form mushroom cap with innovative usage of standard studio tools
- Create luminescent stem
- Assemble and “treat” mushroom
- Cure using highly effective and advanced processes
Class 06:
- Assemble an arrangement using realistic mushrooms and bonus class items
Class 07:
- Museum-quality backing on arrangement, with instruction on bail and pinback
Class 08:
- Shaggy Mane Mushrooms: Blend clay
- Shape and layer mushroom cap
- Create durable stem base
- Apply mushroom cap texture with innovative usage of standard studio tool
- Apply “shaggy” texture to stem with a tool swiped from another medium
- Cure using highly effective and advanced methods
Class 09:
- Surprise Class Additions! Organic Seashell Beads: These lightweight, magical, spiraling seashells seem to defy the abilities of polymer. A truly innovative technique!
- Millefiori Cane Makeover: Learn how to bring a disappointing millefiori cane from fugly to gorgeous! Like magic, you’ll learn how to salvage all those less-than-desirable canes and turn them into lovely wonders using techniques I developed (one of my proudest discoveries:). This is a happy-making method for caners who have scads of seemingly unusable canes! Learning this technique will allow you to profit from old, unattractive canes you put time into, but thought wasted. The price of this course will quickly be covered with your ability to sell old (but now new) canes! You will also learn in this segment, how to store and keep canes so they stay fresh, soft, pliable, and “like new”, even after a decade of storage!
BONUS
- Materials List
- Grasses: Learn my innovative technique for using a basic grooming tool to create delicate, fine grasses that will add life to any piece you create!
- Fantastical Mushroom Pods: Learn to create these sweet little pods using basic tools, scrap clay (always a win!) and not much effort — yet they look so complex! Add a spot of interesting whimsy to your work with these colorful pods.
- Realistic Twine: When basic materials are combined and treated in a specific way, realistic looking twine is born! You’ll learn the tricks in this class! Reishi Mushrooms: Reishi’s grow in wild varieties, and in this class you’ll learn innovative skills to create two varieties that can then be altered to achieve other varieties of Reishi shrooms. The process is fun and “out of the box”, and opens your mind up to new ways of combining polymer clay and alcohol inks!
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