Polymer cane

Sometimes, when I start a project, I carefully plan everything out with sketches and color chips and recipes. Sometimes I just grab some clay and start creating. Whenever I can't decide on a color for a project, I gather all the little bits and pieces of one color family and just mix them together, using whatever color I end up with. (I am a little more careful with the coordinating colors.) That's what I did with this one. It's a good way to use up all of those bits and pieces of pretty…

Scraps from canes can be from any part or stage when constructing a cane; it can be from the petals stage or the cane ends after reduci...

UPDATE 05/10/2017 CraftArtEdu has unfortunately now closed, if you would like more information on this cane here is Claire Wallis Facebook Page. Earlier this week I took some time out to make this Water Cane, I purchased the tutorial for this cane from CraftArtEdu designed by Claire Wallis. Its a fairly simple tutorial for those that have experience in caning involving skinner blends. Polymer clay water cane in the making You get two tutorials for the price, the water cane and another…

These canes from PolymerClayWorkshop’s Meg Newberg look very convincing. If you’re a cane aficionado, this will tickle your fancy. Building the cane with translucent means that thin slices will take on the color of any background clay. Don’t you love how polymer can fool the eye? I hope Meg releases this tutorial to her big […] Read more

I post these on my facebook page, but I wanted to assemble a few of the best all in one place. For more complex canes, please visit my etsy shop.

In this polymer clay cane tutorial I’ll demonstrate how to make a kaleidoscope cane using a simple skinner blend with stunning results