{"id":11140,"date":"2015-09-25T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=11140"},"modified":"2015-09-25T06:10:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T12:10:26","slug":"going-with-the-grain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/going-with-the-grain\/","title":{"rendered":"Going with the Grain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rather than another example of great faux wood effects (and there are many more!), I spent time digging up some faux wood tutorials because maybe you want to try your hand at a bit of this. I have three here for you; all have their merits and offer a slightly different approach and outcome.
\n\"clause<\/a>If you like it quick and breezy, check out this YouTube video <\/a>by Italian clayer Claudia aka Polymer Claus<\/a>. I like the break up of the clay that occurs in spots due to the paint mixed in with it. However, I would be itching to go at it with a needle tool to put some dimensional lines into the raw clay or with a bit of a wire brush attack after it came out of the oven. That would give it a bit more of a worn wood look, but also a very realistic look as the grain would be tactile and not just visual. But that’s me!<\/p>\n

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For those of you who would like a more distinct grain pattern or believe you’d prefer taking a\u00a0caning approach, try this photo tutorial<\/a> created by a French clayer that goes by\u00a0CilooMina<\/a>\u00a0on Flickr. This fairly traditional approach creates\u00a0bold wood grain with eyes and just a little distortion for a realistic effect.<\/p>\n

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And for the perfectionist that we all love and admire out there, Sylive Peraud has a very thorough class on Faux wood on Craft Art Ed<\/a>u. Sylvie is a meticulous artist and a meticulous teacher. Although I have not had the pleasure of trying out this online class, I have had a live class with her and her workmanship and tips are amazing.<\/p>\n

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So let’s get woodsy this weekend. We did just have the first day of fall so season appropriate organic polymer creations do seem in order!<\/p>\n

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Rather than another example of great faux wood effects (and there are many more!), I spent time digging up some faux wood tutorials because maybe you want to try your hand at a bit of this. I have three here for you; all have their merits and offer a slightly different approach and outcome. If…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4433,4432,356,4435,11,4436,4437,4434,48,79,298,148,4438],"class_list":["post-11140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-ciloomina","tag-claudia-aka-polymer-claus","tag-faux-wood","tag-faux-woodgrain","tag-polymer-clay","tag-polymer-wood","tag-polymer-woodgrain","tag-sylive-peraud","tag-technique","tag-texture","tag-tutorial","tag-tutorials","tag-woodgrain-in-polymer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-2TG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}