Stormy Skies, a Polymer Clay Painting

Create dark Stormy Skies and bright autumn leaves with this painting effect using Polymer Clay. It’s easier than you think, no painting or drawing skills needed, and this little Autumnal scene is a great one to start with, needing very few tools and only small amounts of Polymer Clay. So, sit back, relax, and watch as I show you step by step how to create the scene, then have some fun and make your own.

The music from the video is English Country Garden by Aaron Kenny and Waterfall by Aakash Gandhi, both available from the YouTube Free Audio Library.

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Here is the link to my conditioning Polymer Clay video -    • Conditioning Polymer Clay Quickly - s...  

Here is the link to the Skinner Blends video –    • Basic Skinner Blend Tutorial from Pol...  

Polymer Clay is oven baked/cured, always follow the manufacturer’s instructions for the brand of clay you are using.

I used FIMO Soft Polymer Clay, but all well-known brands of polymer clay will work well for this project. I used mixes of left over colours from other projects, just small amounts of each, and mention in the video subtitles the amounts and rough colours that I use.

I used a Pasta Machine dedicated to Polymer Clay use to create blends and condition the clay. My Pasta Machine is an Atlas 180, and it has setting 0 as its thickest and 9 as its thinnest.

There is a standard way of calculating the thickness of clay required, by using stacked playing cards. On my machine the thicknesses are as follows: Setting 0 = 8 playing cards, setting 1 = 7, setting 2 = 6, setting 3 = 5, setting 4 = 4, setting 5 = 3, setting 6 and 7 = 2, setting 8 and 9 = 1 card.

If you do not have a pasta machine, simply stack the above number of playing cards on either side of your clay and roll it to that thickness.
The large oval cutter I use to size my initial design is 3.25 inches / 8.5 cm wide.

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Have fun with this one, and I cannot wait to see what you create.

Thank you so much for watching.