{"id":8654,"date":"2014-10-13T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=8654"},"modified":"2014-10-22T10:53:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T16:53:14","slug":"little-flower-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/little-flower-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Flower Details"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DIY-Nice-Polymer-Clay-Flower\"<\/a>I just got back from nearly\u00a03 weeks\u00a0in California taking care of family matters and have 4 days before I am off again to the Racine Art Museum polymer symposium, so I will be looking towards the fine examples and ingenuous ideas of others this week to keep you inspired in case my words fail me. I have noticed a number of very clever tutorials and tips roaming about the online waves. Most are, after you see them, very obvious little tricks and ideas, but it’s so often only obvious after you see it!<\/p>\n

Take this flower petal texturing method. I have seen many examples of lines in canes to create the visual look, but the actual tactile look of lines running across petals is far less common. Here is a very simple way to get those tactile lines into the petals: just scratch a series of lines into a soft but sturdy material and press\u00a0your petals into the texture. I think texture was created on foam of some sort, but you could, of course, use polymer and bake it. It adds a wonderfully realistic quality to the petals. Here is the full visual tutorial.<\/a><\/p>\n

Are there other items you tend to texture with hand tools that you could create a basic texture form to press or stamp with instead? It’d be worth a try if you think of something.<\/p>\n

All I know about the creator of this tutorial is that he or she is going by Lufy, or did, on Livemaster.ru, but the Livemaster link for Lufy is not working, and this tutorial is spread all over on various sites without credit. Maybe we can correct that? Does anyone know who the craft artist\u00a0is? Let me know if you d,o and I’ll dig up more about this clever clayer.<\/p>\n

Note added on Oct 14th: Thanks\u00a0Natalja for solving the mystery!\u00a0 It is not Lufy, but -Luly and the artist’s name is Julia Kotselova. Here is the link to her Livemaster shop.<\/a><\/p>\n

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