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Tooaquarius
Canada
Registrace 17. 05. 2017
Welcome to my studio! Tooaquarius is a polymer clay studio on the Canadian prairies that has been all about polymer clay beads and canes for a bit now. Find tutorials, walkthroughs, and blog content about being a working artist here and on my site.
Make a Spooky Cute Black Cat Face Cane for Halloween
Every year I try to make a few seasonal canes for Halloween. One of this year's is this spooky cute black cat against a moon background. I use canes like to make cute beads because everyone needs more cute beads.
By everyone I mean me. I need more cute beads.
The clays are all Premo - black, white, mocha pearl,, yellow and pink scraps. I'm using an Atlas 150 pasta machine.
LINKS
IG: tooaquarius
Shop: shop.tooaquarius.com
Site & Blog: www.tooaquarius.com
Etsy: tooaquarius.etsy.com
MUSIC
Epidemic Sound - get a free month: bit.ly/3HHq4ep
By everyone I mean me. I need more cute beads.
The clays are all Premo - black, white, mocha pearl,, yellow and pink scraps. I'm using an Atlas 150 pasta machine.
LINKS
IG: tooaquarius
Shop: shop.tooaquarius.com
Site & Blog: www.tooaquarius.com
Etsy: tooaquarius.etsy.com
MUSIC
Epidemic Sound - get a free month: bit.ly/3HHq4ep
zhlédnutí: 201
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Making House Plant Leaf Canes from Polymer Clay
zhlédnutí 831Před 2 měsíci
A little bit ago, someone asked for a fittonia white or nerve plant leaf cane and I got to it recently. I decided to jump right in so there's a white and green version that's a bit of an experiment and then a fittonia 'red' that's a little bit more cohesive. With both canes, the green is Premo Forest with either black or grey added to it. The red in the fittonia red leaf cane is Soufflé turnip ...
How to Make Feather Canes with Polymer Clay
zhlédnutí 406Před 3 měsíci
Here's a feather cane - in turquoise because I love the colour - done in the style I did a few years ago on this channel which is DEFINITELY based on the one I learned on the now defunct(?) Polymer Clay Central site, by the always awesome Donna Kato. Feather canes make great leaf canes, too, and you can get great fern like effects. Just use some fun leaf colours. Or for much more whimsical feat...
Making a Dogwood Flower Cane from Polymer Clay
zhlédnutí 348Před 3 měsíci
I'm loosely working on the provincial (and it turns out, some of the state flowers too) flowers so here's a dogwood flower. This one is white although I hear they come in very pink, as well. I use white and Premo's 18K gold to blend a nice off white block. The translucent and other colours in the cane are all Premo colours. My pasta machine is an Atlas 150 with a hacked together motor LINKS IG:...
A Really Simple Flower Cane from Polymer Clay
zhlédnutí 438Před 4 měsíci
Here's a pretty basic 5 petal flower cane made as a simple wood violet. This is a great, cheerful little flower cane to get started with caning in polymer clay. I've used translucent clay for the background here and about one package each of purple and light purple. LINKS IG: tooaquarius Shop: shop.tooaquarius.com Site & Blog: www.tooaquarius.com Etsy: tooaquarius.etsy.com This ca...
Make a Sweet Forget Me Not Flower Cane
zhlédnutí 569Před 4 měsíci
Here's a little forget-me-not style flower cane to try! I love the delicate blues the ones I find come in and for this one I used a mix of scrappy light blues that probably started as Premo Ultramarine and a lot of white. LINKS IG: tooaquarius Shop: shop.tooaquarius.com Site & Blog: www.tooaquarius.com Etsy: tooaquarius.etsy.com MUSIC Epidemic Sound - get a free month: bit.ly/3HHq4ep
Cute Polymer Clay Ivy Leaf Cane and Bonus Beads!
zhlédnutí 353Před 4 měsíci
Long ago - in 2006 my notes tell me - I made a written English ivy cane tutorial on my website. Here's the video version in slightly darker, more dramatic colours. Written tutorial: www.tooaquarius.com/tutorials/ivy-leaf-cane/ I used Premo Spanish Olive for the lighter green and Premo Jungle (a discontinued dark green I will miss a lot) for the darker green. It made a GREAT dark, moody blend an...
Make Some Daffodil Canes from Polymer Clay 🌼
zhlédnutí 369Před 4 měsíci
Somehow I had never made a daffodil cane before - beads, yes, but not a full cane. So here's my first crack at a 3/4 profile with the little daffodil centre pointing off to the side. I like it even if it's a bit wonky here and there :) This was all Premo clay - the yellow is Cadmium Yellow. The orange-y colour is 50% cad yellow and 50% orange. The translucent is regular Premo translucent. LINKS...
Making Custom Jewelry Findings from Polymer Clay
zhlédnutí 638Před 5 měsíci
When I did my cherry blossom cane a month ago I set aside a chunk of the petal cane to use for flower beads and little floral headpins. I sell the beads online but I tend to make the headpins for my own finished jewellery projects. Polymer clay is fantastic for making custom findings for your jewelry making. I like these bracelets because they're a great way to show off fun beads, findings and ...
Make A Fern Like Leaf Cane
zhlédnutí 2,4KPřed 5 měsíci
Because everyone needs a fern style cane in their cane garden here's one take on it! This one is made with the regular stuff - Premo Spanish Olive, white, gold, some translucent. LINKS IG: tooaquarius Shop: shop.tooaquarius.com Site & Blog: www.tooaquarius.com Etsy: tooaquarius.etsy.com This cane on Etsy: www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1689374367/long-fern-leaf-cane-polymer-clay-green? M...
Make a Polymer Clay Lily Cane
zhlédnutí 689Před 5 měsíci
The prairie lily, a reddish orange lily, is the provincial flower where I live and there's scads of them. It's a shorter, sturdier flower than the daylily although the general idea is pretty similar. I love the little freckles on the petals of the lily flowers and make this cane a regular in my catalogue of designs. I used Premo orange, ecru, gold, and translucent for this flower. The freckles ...
Little Polymer Clay Projects Using Canes
zhlédnutí 578Před 5 měsíci
This is chatty little video about what I mostly do with canes when I don't just straight sell them to other clayers. Like a lot of us, I make jewellery and sell at shows, as well as online, so this is some of that process, too. The projects I specially mention in the video are: Poinsettia Slab Project: czcams.com/video/HaQV8KFfqP0/video.html Make Round Beads: czcams.com/video/G_nLrYwxq1Q/video....
More Polymer Clay Leaf Canes - Make a Watermelon Peperomia Leaf
zhlédnutí 388Před 6 měsíci
I briefly considered colour grading the whole video to make the greens more grey-green like the actual watermelon peperomia usually is but it's probably best to be honest about it. This is just a greener leaf. I mostly make little tiny beads and slab pieces out of these but they make ADORABLE miniature potted plants as well. I'll have a video with some examples of finished items next week. The ...
Make a Spring Leaf Cane from Polymer Clay 🍃
zhlédnutí 567Před 6 měsíci
After a couple weeks of spring flowers I felt the need for a spring-y leaf cane to go with them - particularly with last week's cherry blossom flower cane - and so I made one of my usual shaded leaf canes in brighter, spring-y greens. The green in this cane is Premo Bright Green Pearl and the outline and vein colour is Premo 18K Gold. The combo is pretty bright but it works for what I was going...
Make A Simple Cherry Blossom Cane from Polymer Clay🌸
zhlédnutí 662Před 6 měsíci
Cherry blossom flower beads are one of the long time favourites in my shop but I think I've never actually made a regular cane of them so here we go! This version doesn't have the little indent in the petal tip but you could add that in the cane construction of course! This is the second in a series of spring flower projects and I've made a play list for them now: czcams.com/play/PLgSHGUkJ61h2H...
Spring Flowers in Polymer Clay 🌺 Crocus Cane
zhlédnutí 677Před 6 měsíci
Spring Flowers in Polymer Clay 🌺 Crocus Cane
Make a Whimsical Valentine Polymer Clay Cane💟
zhlédnutí 174Před 6 měsíci
Make a Whimsical Valentine Polymer Clay Cane💟
Make a Polymer Clay Rose Cane 🌹 Polymer Clay Cane Tutorial
zhlédnutí 929Před 7 měsíci
Make a Polymer Clay Rose Cane 🌹 Polymer Clay Cane Tutorial
Make a Fun Polymer Clay Coffee Cup Cane ☕
zhlédnutí 224Před 7 měsíci
Make a Fun Polymer Clay Coffee Cup Cane ☕
Make a Santa Claus Face Cane with Polymer Clay
zhlédnutí 266Před 8 měsíci
Make a Santa Claus Face Cane with Polymer Clay
My Very Belated Jack O' Lantern Cane for Halloween! 🎃
zhlédnutí 111Před 9 měsíci
My Very Belated Jack O' Lantern Cane for Halloween! 🎃
Make a Word Cane in Polymer Clay for Halloween
zhlédnutí 319Před rokem
Make a Word Cane in Polymer Clay for Halloween
Polkadots are Fun! Polymer Clay Leaf Cane Tutorial
zhlédnutí 3,3KPřed rokem
Polkadots are Fun! Polymer Clay Leaf Cane Tutorial
Make a Fun House Plant Leaf Cane - Polymer Clay Maranta
zhlédnutí 781Před rokem
Make a Fun House Plant Leaf Cane - Polymer Clay Maranta
Make a Snake Plant Succulent and Miniature from Polymer Clay
zhlédnutí 807Před rokem
Make a Snake Plant Succulent and Miniature from Polymer Clay
Making Flower Canes with LOTS of Petals
zhlédnutí 451Před rokem
Making Flower Canes with LOTS of Petals
"Repeat forever."😂😂😂 My attention span is only about a half inch long so making beads feels like an eternity! I really do like these beads so I will have to suck it up!
So cute. Love it 😍
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Very cute. ❤
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Just saw your color recipes on a string. It takes me way too damn long to come up with and to mix colors for a project and i'm contently fighting with the minimal daytime lighting of NY state where even summer days are typically cloudy, so naturally you know how much colors are a struggle for me when mixing, the worst thing about it is the sunlight not really being there and those artist lightbulbs usually aren't as good as actual sunlight. So now i'm cataloging every color i come up with, the problem is ill end up with a lot of colors, i don't want to store them like other polymer clay artists do because they tend to use folders and binders, if i do that i'll end up with way too many folders, so my other option were storing them stacked on each other in boxes sectioned off in a rainbow color order pattern, but polymer clay densely packed with each other becomes heavy and every plastic and wooden box/drawer storage option I've seen have weight limits that are too small for the clays, also when i do the math ill have too many clays most likely anyway.... Although i still prefer the box/drawer method, realistically if i want to keep every color i make it would become too many boxes too even though my clay squares are only at a #2 thickness and are only 20mm tall... Then today i saw someone with theirs on strings. The only difference is i plan on labeling my colors on the backs of each color chip, like their names, then ill have notebooks with those names and what colors went into making them.
Back when I started I got into clay to make beads so stringing my tiles was just a matter of course. I made lots of notes for the swatches at the time but the formulas have all changed in the 20ish years since then so now I'd say they're more approximate. I have strings with larger, flatter, tiles for with their formulas written on them as well but the fun long strings are my favourite.
@@Tooaquarius Oh i also have color chips for those color recipes. I have the 20mm square pieces that are #2 pasta machine thickness, and on the backs i'll carve the names i give them then paint white around the words on the back and get black paint in the recesses of the carves because i found out that sticker labels are a no for polymer clay (the brand i use don't want to stick also some writing inks transfers to polymer clay when they touch, it's probably better to paint anyway). I'm also going to gloss varnish the backs to see what those colors look like with gloss varnish. Then while making those i also cut a much smaller piece from that color batch. The tinier ones won't be labeled i'm just going to dump them all in containers as a color randomizer for when i want to mix and match colors for spontaneous colored projects. I recently started working on translucent mix recipes too, like how much of a color goes into translucent clays, specifically colored polymer clay (i haven't used anything like alcohol inks yet), and each batch i also have 3 different thicknesses being #9,#3, and #1 and an extra ball-ish shaped one to see what those clays may look like if i made thicker rounder projects, those will also be on strings. I'm probably going to repeat the translucent color mixes again with another brand besides just Premo, like Pardo since it's one of the most translucent clays but since i mainly use Premo brand i want to do both. I may one day do the same with other accent clays like golds or silvers but since i haven't used them in any project, their recipe mixes are irrelevant right now. I'm not going to make a whole rainbow of colors though, i only use one color mixed with the accent clays, the color I've settle on for those is turquoise since it's a medium dark clay and has both blue and yellow in it.
Oh that sounds like fun! Once I went 'pro' with my clay I do so much less experimenting - I still do swatches and colour chips but not like the first few years.
@@Tooaquarius I don't really have much of a choice, the daylight wont work with me and i'm often indecisive with how much of any color i'm adding into my mixes thinking it's too juvenile of a color or too dusky grey, i'm over it, now i just want lines and lines of colors to choose from like when painters look at pantone colors in paint stores, then i can go in knowing what i want. When they eventually discontinue the colors i'll just look around for info or wing remaking those colors in premo, i'm good at replicating colors i just struggle with daytime lighting. As for the translucent, it's completely necessary because for some reason when i go in blind i always mix it wrong, most times on my own i make it too opaque, and i can't find any decent online tutorials showing how to mix certain amounts of opaque color clays into translucent clays, it's all alcohol inks and even those aren't that great of tutorials in my opinion because they usually have massive sheets of clay, i like to use how much i know i'll need per project and store the extras in plastic sheets flat in folders because i don't buy huge batches of clays, only certain colors i buy in bulk. Also the translucent tutorials also don't show anything on different thicknesses per amount of mix racio.
I think this is sooo cool! Are you doing ok? Seems like it's been awhile since I've seen you 🥰
I love the plant too, went out and got myself one after seeing how the cane worked lol. I'm fine just having less free time to sit down and edit videos with other work commitments! Which means uploading kinda infrequently, sigh.
@@Tooaquarius I totally understand that! 😂
What kind of pasta machine do you use?? I love this video!!!
I use either an Atlas 150, older style one or a newer Atlas 150 'wellness' machine but the settings are similar - 0 or 1 are thickest setting.
You are very talented 🧿
Thanks! I have been at this for a while!
Im the one tell you to make fittonia 🎉 thanks to you lot show me fittonia red too ❤❤❤❤❤
It came together in the end! I hope you have some fun with it!
Nice!
Thanks!
Brilliant! The veins in the second one are much more realistic!
Yeah I felt that way too! I should have probably done a few ahead instead of jumping right into filming. The next time I do it will probably be better yet!
I admire your tenacity in pursuing the replication of this type of leaf! Not an easy thing to figure out. Well done!
Thanks :) I've been doing it so long that at least some designs seem pretty straightforward by this point
Gorgeous!
Thanks!
😍😍😍 Truly magnificent Pansy cane. Thank you so very much for sharing your skills with us. ❤️
Awesome, easy to follow tutorial. I love this leaf. It is gorgeous. Thank you for posting, it is much appreciated! ❤️
Oh so pretty!! If I don't have those colors can I use my oils to dye my clay or powders? Sorry, I'm new & can't remember the proper names. Thank you❤
Wow, that turned out beautiful!! Thank you!!
I have fallen in love with your cane work, especially this one. Thank You
thanku for this tut , i wanted to watch the second part but yr link in the comments section replays/ repeats this same first one - pls help
Géniale, faut que je fasse cette rose 😊 merci 🙏🏻 🎉
it's my favourite rose colour combo!
I love the little spikes;very appealing-
Yay! Thanks!
I learn something great from you in every video thank you 🎀🎀🎀
ha ha! i'm happy to hear it! Every video is a learning experience over here, too.
Your skills always amaze me...and your flowers are so beautiful!
Thanks :) Flowers and leaves are some of the more forgiving canes to do!
A very cute but elegant flower cane. TFS. ❤
Thank you! 😊
Beautiful
Thanks so much :)
Stay in camera.
Probably some good advice there!
Love your flowers 🌈🎀
Happy to hear it because I am stuck on them 😊
This was great 🌈🎀
Thanks!
Love it.❤
Thanks!
Linda rosa !
This is so beautiful 🤩
These are always some of my favourites for shows!
Love it!!! Thank you for the wonderful tutorial ❤
Thanks a bunch! 😊
Love your videos ❤
Thanks so much 😊
I find it so relaxing to watch you make canes. This one is beautiful ❤️
Thanks so much 😊
Sweet!
Its beautiful cane ❤
Thanks :)
How much of the white are you starting with in your half circle? I've failed twice so I'd like to get it right this time. I think the amounts are what the problem is.
It's proportional but usually when I do this cane I go with one 2oz/56g pack of white clay to a similar amount of very light grey. If you don't need that large of a cane - it makes a lot of baseball - reduce by half across the board and make your red lines proportionately thinner..
Very awesome!! So pretty and cute. Love it. TYFS!!!
Thank you so much!
So pretty 😍
Thank you!! 😊
That's all scrap? Yer scraps would be my hog heaven, holy cow! Let me know if you ever have a scrap box give away, or a contest winner picks a number and gets that box 🤣 cause I wanna play 😂
he he... everyone's welcome to drop by the studio and grab a few handfuls but mailing from rural Canada is a pain!
@@Tooaquarius IKR especially with the rates. Thank God for the "if it fits, it ships" boxes😁
Ohhh ..so pretty 😍 I love your canes.
Thank you! 🤗
Beautiful as always, thank you for the wonderful tutorial 💞
Thanks so much 😊