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Materials:
- Dedicated
Pasta Machine for rolling sheets of clay (#1 is the largest setting
referenced)
- Sculpey
Super Slicer
- Dental pick
or needle tool
- Ruler
- Small tray
for baking and transporting your finished project (small enough
to fit into a convection or toaster oven)
- A few sheets
of copy paper or index cards
- Premo! Sculpey
clay in the following colors and quantities:
- Glow in
the Dark #5703 (Two 2-oz. bars)
- Fluorescent
Green #5521 (One 2-oz. bar)
- Orange
#5033 (One 2-oz. bar)
- Raw Sienna
#5392 (One 2-oz. bar)
- Black
#5042 (One 2-oz. bar)
- Ultramarine
Blue #5562 (One 2-oz. bar)
Instructions:
- Mix up the
two packages of Glow-in-the-Dark with 1/2 of the package of the
fluorescent green. This makes a nice glowing, green color.
- Take a small
amount of black and roll it into a long tube, about 20 mm long.
- Once the edge
of the green sheet meets up with the other side, roll back so you
have a cutting mark. Cut the sheet of green clay at the mark with
the Sculpey Super Slicer.
- Roll up the
black tube, meeting and butting the ends of the sheet.
- Add 2 more
sheets of glowing green to the bulls-eye.
- Now take this
"eye cane" and reduce it to 40 mm in length.
- Add another
sheet of glowing green and cut the eye cane in half.
- Now, let's
make the witch's nose. Form a rectangle of the glowing green that
is 30 mm long, 20 mm wide, and 20 mm deep.
- Then make a
tube of glowing green that is 20 mm long.
- Next, wrap
the nose cane with a sheet of glowing green.
- Add triangles
of glowing green to fill in the background of the nose cane.
- Add a sheet
of black that starts in the middle of the bottom of the nose, and
wraps up around the side of the nostril. This is our witch's mouth.
- Wrap a sheet
of glowing green around the mouth area.
- Add the eye
canes that we made earlier.
- Add triangles
of glowing green to start filling in the forehead area.
- Add small triangles
of glow in the dark green in other areas to make sure the cane does
not distort out of shape.
- Add sheets
of glowing green to the top and bottom of the witch cane to round
out her head.
- This is what
your witch cane should look like at this point after a bit of reduction:
- Mix a tiny
bit of the original fluorescent green into a tiny bit of the glow-in-the-dark
clay that is left over. Roll out a thin tube of the mixed clay and
apply it to the top of the witch cane as a register stripe.
- Now, reduce
your witch cane to the desired diameter. I usually reduce all of
my face canes to 3/8" inch.
- This is what
your witch should look like at this point:
- Now, let's
make some hair for our witch. Taking the orange and brown clays,
stack 4 sheets of orange and 3 sheets of brown clay.
- Reduce the
hair cane until you can put it through the pasta machine. Cut the
hair cane into 2 separate lengths that are as long as the witch
cane, and wide enough to fit on the side of the witch's head.
- Apply one length
of hair to the top of the witch's head, lining it up straight with
the register stripe, and then repeat on the other side.
- Turn the witch
cane upside down, and smooth the hair around both sides of the witch's
head.
- This is what
your witch cane should look like at this point!
- It is time
to give our witch her hat. Roll out a black sheet that is as long
as your witch face cane, and as wide as you would like. This will
be the hat's brim.
- Apply the brim
to the top of the witch's head.
- Roll out a
sheet of the ultramarine blue as long as the witch cane and as wide
as you would like it. This will be the band on our witch's hat.
- Apply the band
to the hat brim.
- Next, make
a long triangular tube of black that is as long as your witch face
cane. Apply the triangle of black to the top of the sash.
- Here's your
finished witch face cane all ready to be made into beads or used
in other projects!!!
Baking
Instructions:
Bake
your canes by this rule of thumb: Bake on an index card or on copy
paper in a calibrated oven (check dial temperature with an external
thermometer and adjust accordingly) at 275 degrees F for 30 minutes
per 1/4" of thickness for Premo! Sculpey.
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