Salt technique polymer clay lesson. Master class: polymer clay beads using the salt technique. Required materials and tools

If you want to do polymer clay and do not know where to start, then the salt technique is what you need. A minimum of tools, a block of clay of the chosen color - and in an hour you will have warm, cozy, slightly velvety beads for a necklace, bracelet, earrings or something else.

So, we go to the store for baked polymer clay. You can stop at just one color you like. Just a little tip: don't use translucent colors. The salt technique is good for its rough surface. In a translucent design, this roughness will be lost.

In the master class, I took two colors (scarlet and white pearl) to complicate the result a little due to a slight color transition. In addition to the clay itself, you will need: sugar (or salt), toothpicks, a knife (or just a blade) and a piece of foil (you can do without it).


So, first we cut off a piece of clay of each color and knead both pieces properly. "Properly" means that the well-crushed clay sausage, when folded in half, does not break at the fold, but stretches pliantly.


We make triangles of approximately the same size from crushed clay and fold them, as shown in the photo.


This is one of the easy ways to make a color transition. True, it will not be smooth, but slightly stepped, but in some beads it looks good.

We cut the triangles folded into a rectangle across into the required number of blanks. I settled on the number 8: it's easier to divide this way, and the size is quite suitable.


Then we mix each workpiece until a uniform color. We dip the finished balls in granulated sugar and strongly press the sugar crystals into the clay. Instead of sugar, you can choose salt (it's not for nothing that the technique is called "salt"): fine or coarse. This will not change the sculpting principle.


The technique is good because even small children can sculpt in this technique. There was only one sharp knife, and even then it could well have been replaced with a plastic stack.

So, rolled balls in sugar. Then you can pierce them with a toothpick (so that you do not drill holes in the baked clay later). I decided to flatten the beads a little, because I plan to collect them in a bracelet. In my opinion, flat beads in a bracelet are more versatile, round beads do not look good on every hand.



Small comments. The toothpick should not be stuck in, but screwed into the bead: this way it will deform less. After piercing it all the way, take out the toothpick and insert it again, but on the other side. With this simple operation, you will trim the puncture points of the bead.

And second: you can bake it without a lump of foil (I did it out of habit). Since the beads are flat and in sugar, they can be baked on a paper napkin, their shape will not be affected when baking.

Gently remove the hot baked beads from the toothpicks (it will be difficult to remove the cooled ones) and throw them into a bowl with cold water. In water, the beads will cool down and be freed from sugar (it will simply melt).

We take the beads out of the water (I also washed them out of the dissolved sugar under running water), dry them and admire them.


From these beads, as planned, I assembled a bracelet. And also enough for earrings ...


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To create a porous surface on polymer clay, use salt or sugar. They are added to clay or applied on top of the product before baking, and then removed by dissolving in water.

The more salt or sugar particles there are, the larger the pores on the clay are.

This technique is called "salt" or "sugar". It is one of the easiest to work with polymer clay, so it can be recommended for beginners.

Required materials and tools

Getting Started

Roll out blue and white polymer clay, cut out triangles and fold them into a rectangle, as shown in the photo.

Divide the rectangle into nine equal pieces and cut with a razor blade.

Knead each strip of clay between your fingers until a uniform color is obtained and roll into a ball. These will be beads for a bracelet, and for earrings, mix an arbitrary amount of white and blue clay and roll the same balls.

Dip each ball into salt, roll in it, and then between your palms so that the salt does not crumble.

Put the workpieces in the refrigerator for 15 - 20 minutes or in the freezer for 5 - 7 minutes.

Pierce the balls with a needle from top to bottom, being careful not to deform them.

Bake in the oven for 20 minutes at 110 - 120 C.

Dip the balls into a container of hot water and let the salt dissolve.

When the balls are dry, you can start assembling. Cut the cable, about 30 cm long. Pass one end of it into the clamping bead, the clasp and again into the bead, tighten and clamp it with pliers.

Type the bracelet by alternating resin beads, cups and glass beads. Pass the other end of the cable through the clamping bead, the ring, and again into the bead.

February 6th, 2013, 11:58 am

Original taken from lizkin_bizkit в Beads in the "salt" technique. Master Class.

We will make beads using the salt (or sugar) technique and then assemble a bracelet from them.


We will need:

Baked polymer clay

Utility knife blade

Toothpicks

Sugar or salt

A glass of water

Elastic,

Decorative beads for decoration.

So here we go!

We take three colors, you can not be especially zealous with kneading at this stage. We form triangles, which, when added to each other, will give a rectangle (or almost a rectangle)

Then we cut our rectangle into as many strips as we want to make. Each strip will contain pieces of both colors, in different proportions. When mixed, it gives us a smooth color transition.

Mix the colors thoroughly. At first, the plastic will be quite tough, so I got used to heating it on the battery - I put small pieces on a couple of sheets of paper and in 5 minutes they become warm and it is much easier to knead them. Then we roll the balls. The accuracy of the figure is not very important here. These are the balls:

Now we pour sugar (or salt, the larger the crystals, the more effective the surface will be) and roll our balls one by one. The more you press the ball with your palm against the sugar, the more it will be imprinted on the surface. And the more beautiful the bead will be.

Now we put the sugar balls in the freezer, literally for 5 minutes, so that the polymer clay cools down and hardens a little. This will make it easier to make a hole in the ball.

Simultaneously heat the oven at 110-130 degrees (I bake at 120)

One at a time, we take out the cooled balls, and, with a twisting motion, pierce them with a toothpick. The more actively you rotate the toothpick around its axis, the less deformation of the bead will be. Better to twist than crush! Let's form a round bead shape.

We leave the beads on our toothpicks and bake in this form. I stick the loose ends of the toothpicks into a piece of foil so that the beads bake vertically without touching anything. Or you can buy cornstarch, put it in a heat-resistant container and bake the beads right on it. This method allows you to bake non-planar parts so that "bedsores" do not form (smooth spots remaining from the contact of plastic with what the product lies on)

If you use a conventional oven, I recommend using a large jar with an iron screw top (always with a wide neck!). In such a jar, plastic vapors will not settle on the walls of the oven and you will not have to wash it after each time. But it should be borne in mind that because of the can, the baking time will need to be increased by 10-15 minutes. In this case, the jar was not used, so we bake for only 15-20 minutes, let it cool and, then, wash off the sugar from the beads in a glass of water, dry it. This is what a beauty we have!

I found suitable wood and felt beads in the bins of the Motherland and decided to add them to the bracelet.

We collect our product with an elastic band. The bracelet is ready!

You see, absolutely nothing complicated!) By the way, for those who doubt their abilities - even kids 5 years old have done this job!) You simply have no chance not to succeed!)

I wish you creative success! Do not be afraid to experiment, because only the fearless achieve greatness!

Elizaveta Novikova.

Good afternoon, dear accomplices!

I decided to post a couple of master classes for beginners: beads in the salt technique and 2 ways to sculpt oranges


In my opinion, the journey into the magical world of polymer clay jewelry should be started with the salt technique: it is quite simple and effective:

1. Required materials: plastic (in this case, Polish), a stationery knife, a toothpick, sugar, a container of water on the stove.
2.3. cut the plastic into pieces of the desired size and knead.
4. make balls (I hope everyone understands how to twist the balls in their palms) here the accuracy of the figure is not the most important thing.
5. put our blank bead into a container with sugar, press sugar a little into it
6. roll the ball, rolling sugar.
Then we repeat item 5.6 several times so that the plastic "takes" more sugar (the more, the more interesting the drawing is)
7. We put the sugar balls in the refrigerator for a while so that the plastic cools down from our hands and hardens a little, so it will be easier to make a hole. At this time, turn on the gas under a saucepan with water and heat it to a boil.
8. With a toothpick (needle, syringe, awl and, in principle, anything sharp), gently make a hole with a doctoring movement.
9. In boiling water, put one ball at a time (so that they do not stick to each other). And we leave them to cook for 10-15 minutes, depending on the size of the beads. Then give and let them cool down.
10. Putting the beads into beads and getting an exclusive decoration.

OK it's all over Now. It is not necessary to cover with varnish.

As a result, we can collect the following decoration:

Now oranges, this is a little more complicated:

1 way easier

1. Required materials: white and orange plastic, stationery knife
2. Form a ball out of orange plastic and flatten it to form a cylinder.
3. Divide the station. knife in half
4. Between the two halves we put a white strip and connect it together, seal it a little, returning the shape of the cylinder.
5. Cut across and re-insert the white strip. We repeat the steps until we get 8 slices. Recommendation: before each cutting, it is better to put the plastic in the refrigerator for a short time so that it cools from the warmth of the hands, then it will be easier to cut and the shape will not be lost.
6. We wrap our cylinder with slices of white plastic.
7. We wrap our cylinder with orange plastic slices.
8. Squeeze the resulting sausage
9. Bottom line: orange slices.

Method 2 - the slices are more realistic

Because There are too many photos, so I optimized everything as much as possible, but I'll tell you more in the description:
1. Required materials: plastic in two colors - orange and white
2. Roll the sausage out of orange plastic, wrap it with a white strip and set the mode into 8 equal parts - orange slices.
3. Flatten each part on one side, getting the shape of a droplet
4. We roll a small sausage out of white plastic - this is our middle. And we collect slices around it.
5. We roll a thin white sausage and divide it into 8 parts equal to the height of our orange. We put them between the slices.
6. We wrap the resulting sausage with white plastic
7. We wrap the resulting sausage with orange plastic
8. Gently squeeze the sausage to the required size
9. Result.
Let me remind you that before you cut the sausage, it must be cooled from the warmth of your hands, then it will be easier to cut the pieces evenly.

Creative success!

For example, beads can be made from orange sausage:

Thank you for your attention!

For these beads, it is best to use beautiful leftovers. There are such layers, when you mix different colors and here you look - wow, what a beauty it turned out) this is for such cases. But let's imagine that today we do not have scraps, we will make them ourselves from what we have. In addition, you need salt and molds, but you can do without them:

To make such beads you’d better use the rests of your canes. Sometimes you look at the rests of your canes that have mixed into a beautiful color combination and you don’t know where to use them. Today I'll show how to use them. But in case you don’t have such rests, we’ll make them from any pieces of clay we have at hand from the very start. Besides we’ll need salt and cutters, but if you don’t have them do not worry, you can manage without them.

You will need 2 colors - one bright for the top layer, and for the inside, the color is dark, similar to rust. I do not take a plain one, but fold it in stripes and roll it several times in a pastam machine:

We’ll need two colors of clay - a bright one for the upper layer and a darker one (close to a rust color) to make the inner part. I make a mixed layer joining stripes and roll it through the Condition Machine several times:

I roll out the dark color thicker, and the blue very thinly. Once again I fold it in half with the dark inside and roll it out.
I roll a thick dark clay layer and a thin blue one. I again fold the layers leaving the darker one inside and then I roll them.

It is necessary for the blue to be as thin as possible, almost transparent. Cut into circles:
The blue layer should be very thin, almost transparent. I cut rounds:

Sprinkle well with salt, flatten it and roll it up around the toothpick with a tube:
I powder salt onto them, press them a bit and curl them with a help of a toothpick:

I bake, then dissolve salt in water:
I cure them and dissolve the salt in the water. (After baking, I wash the beads with water, the salt dissolves)


An interesting effect can be obtained by using textures on a salt surface:
You can get an interesting result if you apply textures to the salted cuts before curing:

I think that it is possible to come up with a more complicated assembly, but I am simple on a jewelry cable with a toggle clasp:
You can set the components in a more complex way but I’ve preferred a simple way with a crystal thread and a toggle-clasp:

Beads closer. the photo shows how the salt reveals the color inside:
At the photo downwards you can have a closer look at the beads and see how salt reveals the inner layer:

For inspiration, here are some more photos of patina on metal and simply beautiful surfaces:
Here are some more photos for your inspiration - patina on metal surfaces and just some other beautiful surfaces:

I hope that not only I will now sculpt these beads at night, trying all the colors of the rainbow)))) Join us!

Now I hope I won’t be the one who is making beads mixing all colors of the rainbow all night long. Join me!

 

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