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Materials:
- Inexpensive salt and pepper shakers- even the grocery stores sometimes carry these.
- Sculpey Naturals Multi-pack
- Sculpey Super Slicer
- Sculpey UltraLight
- Needle or Needle type tool
- Acrylic Paint in Burnt Umber
Directions:
1. Mix ½ bar of Sculpey Vanilla Crème with an equal amount of Sculpey UltraLight.
Mix ½ bar of Sculpey iii Hazelnut with an equal amount of Sculpey UltraLight. Condition and mix each new color until thoroughly mixed.
2. Make a 1 ¼" ball of each mixed color roll them in 3" coils and flatten each one with your fingers into a rectangle that is as high as the shakers are and that almost goes around the shaker.Press one end of the rectangle to the shaker and wrap around to meet the end butt the edges and smooth together.
3. Press the rectangle towards the top of the shaker, turn it over and press the rectangle towards the bottom, roll the shaker between you palms, you will feel and hear air bubbles in there, cut into them with your Super Slicer and push the clay back together, do this until most of the bubbles have been removed.
4. Trim away the excess from the bottom of the shaker and trim away the excess from the top of the container. You can roll this again between your palms to even the layer out.
Trim away any excess again.
Push the upper edge down a little to finish it.
 
5. To make the carrot you will need two ½" balls of Just Orange, roll those into elongated cones and flatten just a little, place one onto each shaker on opposite sides. Mark lines in each side of each carrot some long some short but not all the way across the carrot.
Take a ½" ball of Granny Smith and ½" ball String bean, roll each into 1" coils and twist together, Pinch and roll a piece into a 3/8" ball and roll into a cone flatten the cone and place the point on the top of the carrot, make marks on the top with you needle tool.
 
 
6. To make the tomatoes - Pinch off and roll into 3-¼" balls for each carrot and roll those into football shapes.
Place two on each side of the top and one in the middle to make the top of each carrot.
Press them on to the top.
For the tomatoes pinch off and roll into ball 2-1/2" pieces and flatten a lot into 1" disks.
Place one on each shaker next to the carrot, but remember to mirror the images on each one.
Make marks in the bottom center of each tomato in a "V" shape.
Make Longer and bigger upside down "V's" on the top of each tomato.
Roll 3- ¼" balls of the green mix for each tomato into long teardrops and place one on the top right side of the tomato with the thick end in the center and one on the other side with the thick end in the center,
Place the last one in the center with the thick end in the center of the other two.
 
 
7. To make the green peppers - Roll 1- 1/8" ball of the green mixture for each tomato into small teardrops and place one on each tomato to make the stem. They will go right over the center leaf with the point of the teardrop down.
To make the Bell Peppers you will need for both of them 4- ¼" balls of Granny Smith and 2- ½" balls of Granny Smith and roll these into teardrops and flatten to about 1/8" thick.
Place two small flattened teardrops next to each other points down, ¼" apart next to the tomato. Place the large teardrops point down over each set of the smaller ones.
Roll 2- 1/8" balls of String bean into teardrops and place point down over each pepper for the stem.
 
Bake these in a 275 degree pre-heat oven for 25 minutes shut off the oven and let cool for awhile inside when you can touch them with your bare hands take them out of the oven and let cool all the way.
When cool take the stencil brush, dry, and work the burnt umber acrylic paint into the surface and indentations of each shaker, wipe off the excess with a damp, not dripping paper towel. |
