tribal polymer clay veneer tutorial

Steps To Making A Tribal Polymer Clay Veneer

• To start you’ll need to condition and roll your clay.
• You will need two squares of white rolled out at the thickest setting on your pasta machine.
• Now take your chosen alcohol inks and drip one color onto each square. I’m using turquoise and indigo.
• Smear the alcohol ink over each square and let it dry for a few minutes.
• Now fold each square over itself to form a triangle. The alcohol ink side should be sandwiched inside.
• Now place the triangles together the same way you would for any other two part skinner blend.
  
  For more information see my 2 Part Skinner Blend Tutorial
  
  
• Run the triangles through the pasta machine to create a Skinner Blend. Continue until your blend starts to form. It’s up to you when you stop, but this time I stopped about half way so that I had a broken Skinner Blend. You could go until it’s a full Skinner Blend if you wanted to.
• Take your chosen texture stamp and lay it face up on your work surface. Spray it with water.
• Place your Skinner Blend polymer clay veneer on top of your texture stamp.
• Spray water over the sheet and press it into the stamp using your fingertips. Work from one side of the stamp to the other to expel any air bubbles.
• Gently lift the clay out of the stamp once you’ve got a nice imprint. Wipe away any remaining water.
• Use your fingertips to rub silver mica powder over the raised areas of the clay.
• Texture the raised areas of the clay with coarse sandpaper by pressing it gently over the clay.