For
this project you'll need:
- A clean smooth
tile to work and bake on
- A Sculpey clay gun (or you could take the extra time to roll
a long thin rope)
- Premo! Sculpey clay (I chose Premo! Sculpey gold, with a pinch
of Premo! Sculpey copper)
- TLS, Translucent liquid Sculpey
- Pearlex or other metallic powders to highlight your leaf, I
used Aztec gold by Pearlex
- A few toothpicks
- Disposible
paintbrush or similar tool
- Oil
paints in your colors of choice
- A
small dish or tin, clay dedicated, to mix your colors in
a piece of texture fabric to texture the clay
Directions:
1:
Load your clay into your claygun and extrude a long rope.
2: Using
a template or your imagination shape a leaf directly onto the
tile, play with it a bit, it can be complex, but
simple looks beautiful too.
3: Using your textured material press down all over the leaf.
This adheres the clay to the tile, as well as giving it some
detail to highlight with the powders.
4: Dip your fingertip into the powder and tap off as much
as you can. Carefully smooth the powder all over the leaf shape.
5: Now you're going to pour your TLS into your dish and choose
your oil paint. Using a toothpick scrape off just enough paint
from the bottle to tint your TLS, too much and it will lose
it's stained glass effect.
6: I've premixed both my colors of TLS and now I'm using my
paintbrush to drizzle the color right onto the tile. This doesn't
need to be perfect, we're trying to reproduce the random coloration
of fall leaves.
7: Using both colors fill in the leaf, spreading it out, but
not too thin. It's okay for the colors to combine at the edges.
8: With your toothpick pull the center color into the yellow,
creating little veins if you'd like, or even marbling the colors
together. Keep pulling the colors without blending them until
you like the look.
9: Cure (bake) at 275 Degrees F for around 30 minutes right
on the tile. When fully cooled gently peel off leaf. You can
leave it just like this or finish with a little Sculpey glaze
as I did, to give it a glassy shine! Now, just wet the back
of the piece and press onto your window, no hanging tools whatsoever!
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