Rainbow Teardrop Blend (Multicolored Skinner Blend)

00:00:03 –> 00:00:08 Hi guys, its Cindy Lietz, your Polymer Clay Tutor, and today’s PcT Mini Tute, I’m

00:00:08 –> 00:00:12 going to show you how to do a Rainbow Teardrop Blend.

00:00:12 –> 00:00:18 Now, in a previous video, I showed you how to do the Teardrop blend just using 2 colors,

00:00:18 –> 00:00:23 but…and then I talked about doing multiple colors, but apparently, it wasn’t super

00:00:23 –> 00:00:28 clear on how to actually do the Rainbow blend, so what I’m doing is going to do just the

00:00:28 –> 00:00:31 Rainbow blend specifically.

00:00:31 –> 00:00:35 Now, you can use a rainbow blend for all kinds of cool things, you can make a sheet…which

00:00:35 –> 00:00:42 I’m going to show you how to do today, and it just blends from your Reddish color, to

00:00:42 –> 00:00:50 your Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue to Purples…all the way through, you can use that to make

00:00:50 –> 00:00:59 things like a Rainbow blend cane, you can make a square cane which is also called a

00:00:59 –> 00:01:06 Skinner blend plug…so this is a Rainbow plug, you can use that to make beads and all

00:01:06 –> 00:01:08 sorts of cool things.

00:01:08 –> 00:01:09 And look at…

00:01:09 –> 00:01:15 I made just recently with my extruder, and a cool flower disc…I’ll show you how to

00:01:15 –> 00:01:20 do that sometime in the future, and this is done by putting the cane right in the extruder,

00:01:20 –> 00:01:25 so there’s some extremely cool things you can do with the Rainbow blend.

00:01:25 –> 00:01:32 Now all you need for a Rainbow is three colors…your primary colors of course, so you need a Red,

00:01:32 –> 00:01:39 Yellow, and Blue, now I’m using…I’m kinda doing a funky brighter pastel kind of

00:01:39 –> 00:01:47 blend, so I’m using…these are Premo colors, I’m using Fuchsia, Sunshine Yellow, and

00:01:47 –> 00:01:55 Turquoise, now you could use a different combination of a Red, Yellow and Blue, and now, the way

00:01:55 –> 00:02:02 a Rainbow works, is it…you know the ROY G BIV thing, where you’ve got Red, Orange,

00:02:02 –> 00:02:09 Yellow, Blue, Indigo, Violet…well, they keep repeating, so it would go from the Fuchsia

00:02:09 –> 00:02:13 color that we’re using as our Red, all the way through to the Purple, and then it would

00:02:13 –> 00:02:19 start as a Fuchsia again, so what I need, when I’m doing my blend, is I need to have

00:02:19 –> 00:02:24 some Fuchsia at the beginning of the blend, and as well at the end.

00:02:24 –> 00:02:29 Now I’ve got… for the amounts I’m using, now you can use whatever amounts you want,

00:02:29 –> 00:02:35 and each different color is gonna have a different strength to it, but for these particular colors,

00:02:35 –> 00:02:41 the Fuchsia’s pretty strong, and the Sunshine Yellow and the Turquoise aren’t quite as

00:02:41 –> 00:02:46 strong, so I’m gonna use twice as much of these 2 colors, than I am of the Fuchsia,

00:02:46 –> 00:02:51 so I’m using a half a block of the Fuchsia on each end, and then…I mean not block,

00:02:51 –> 00:02:53 section, of each one.

00:02:53 –> 00:03:01 Now, I’m going to shape those into teardrops, now I’ve warmed up this clay already a bit,

00:03:01 –> 00:03:06 and conditioned it, so I’m gonna take a Fuchsia ball here, warm it up in my hand,

00:03:06 –> 00:03:13 rolling it in a ball, and then turn it into a teardrop shape…now this is a much easier

00:03:13 –> 00:03:20 way to do a Rainbow blend than the traditional Skinner blend way, so I’ve got my teardrop

00:03:20 –> 00:03:21 sitting there for the Fuchsia.

00:03:21 –> 00:03:27 Next, I need my Yellow, so I’ve got Sunshine Yellow, you can see this ball is twice as

00:03:27 –> 00:03:32 big, and that’s the cool thing about this Teardrop blend, is if you have a weaker color,

00:03:32 –> 00:03:37 you just make a bigger ball of it and you can still do the blend just as easy, so I’m

00:03:37 –> 00:03:42 making it into a teardrop…make sure to have a good, decent point on the end there, you

00:03:42 –> 00:03:48 want it pointy so that it’s like a real triangle shape, laying it right next to it.

00:03:48 –> 00:03:56 Go to the Blue, which is Turquoise in this case, warming that up…if you have really

00:03:56 –> 00:04:00 soft clay, it’ll be easier to do, and if it’s really hard clay, then it’s gonna

00:04:00 –> 00:04:06 be harder to blend, but still doable, gonna lay this one right next to it.

00:04:06 –> 00:04:16 And the next one…like this…now I’m making…because these Fuchsia ones are less clay, I still

00:04:16 –> 00:04:21 have to make them tall…the same height, so they’re tall and skinny, let me just

00:04:21 –> 00:04:29 show you how that looks next to each other, like that, see?

00:04:29 –> 00:04:34 Now what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna flatten this out, gonna flatten it with my

00:04:34 –> 00:04:42 hands first, you wanna put it through the pasta machine, but you don’t wanna be hard

00:04:42 –> 00:04:45 on your pasta machine, you don’t wanna make it work too hard, so you gotta thin it out

00:04:45 –> 00:04:52 a bit…now I also have a video where I show you how to do a Teardrop blend without a pasta

00:04:52 –> 00:04:55 machine, so you can watch that if you don’t have a machine.

00:04:55 –> 00:04:59 Now…so I’ve got my colors lined up like this, and I’m gonna run them through the

00:04:59 –> 00:05:06 pasta machine at the thickest setting, like this, so that my colors are going…you’ve

00:05:06 –> 00:05:11 got the Fuchsia at the one end, Fuchsia at the other end, don’t turn it this way, don’t

00:05:11 –> 00:05:16 have your Fuchsia at the bottom, have Fuchsia at each end, then we’re gonna run it through

00:05:16 –> 00:05:20 the pasta machine like this.

00:05:20 –> 00:05:31 Now don’t worry if it looks like its kinda coming apart, once you’ve put those two

00:05:31 –> 00:05:34 ends together, it’ll all start working out.

00:05:34 –> 00:05:41 So I’ve just folded it in half, keeping everything going straight up and down, and

00:05:41 –> 00:05:50 then we’re blending it through like this, we’re gonna fold it in half, over and over

00:05:50 –> 00:05:52 until they start to blend together.

00:05:52 –> 00:05:59 Now one thing that we can do is we can speed up this process by rolling it, so I’m just

00:05:59 –> 00:06:06 gonna roll it at one end, and basically this is like folding it over and over and over,

00:06:06 –> 00:06:14 ‘cause each roll is another fold, and it just speeds up the whole process, I can tuck

00:06:14 –> 00:06:22 in any ends that are kinda gettin’ out of control, flatten it right down, and run it

00:06:22 –> 00:06:24 through the machine again.

00:06:24 –> 00:06:28 Now I like to put my fingers to the side, to keep it from getting too wide, now right

00:06:28 –> 00:06:38 now it doesn’t really look right at all, but as we continue to blend it over and over,

00:06:38 –> 00:06:44 you’ll start seeing the colors starting to blend, and they’ll start to make sense,

00:06:44 –> 00:06:46 and start looking like a Rainbow.

00:06:46 –> 00:06:49 So I don’t know, this is gonna take me a little while ‘cause there’s quite a bit

00:06:49 –> 00:06:57 of clay here, but let me go for a while longer and I’ll show you what it looks like a little

00:06:57 –> 00:06:59 further on down the road.

00:06:59 –> 00:07:05 Okay, so now we’re a little bit further along, we’re not quite done yet, I can see

00:07:05 –> 00:07:11 that my Yellow was a lot softer than my Fuchsia in this case, and so the Fuchsia is kinda

00:07:11 –> 00:07:16 getting lost along the edge here, I’ll keep going and see what happens, I can always add

00:07:16 –> 00:07:20 just a little strip of Fuchsia to this side if it looks like I’m losing it too much.

00:07:20 –> 00:07:25 But I’ll keep blending until it’s no longer streaky like this and you can see the Rainbow

00:07:25 –> 00:07:28 starting to happen, alright, so I’ll keep going.

00:07:28 –> 00:07:37 Okay, I was right, this Yellow is dominating, not because it’s a stronger color, just

00:07:37 –> 00:07:43 because it was a lot softer, anyways what I can do… and this is part of what you do

00:07:43 –> 00:07:49 with Polymer clay, is you learn to adjust a little, I can take a little snake of Magenta

00:07:49 –> 00:07:55 (Fuchsia) and just add that to the side here, and what that will do is just fix that up

00:07:55 –> 00:08:03 again as I blend it, so I’ll go and do that again, so you can just fold that right in

00:08:03 –> 00:08:05 there.

00:08:05 –> 00:08:09 Now another thing that can happen is…now this isn’t too bad, but these edges can

00:08:09 –> 00:08:15 come out of alignment, just kinda yank…oop, yank that one up a bit, and kinda pull up

00:08:15 –> 00:08:21 the corners and get them lined up a little bit more and that’ll help, so I’ll run

00:08:21 –> 00:08:24 that through a few more times and then we should be good.

00:08:24 –> 00:08:29 Alright, so we’re pretty close here now, and as you can see, the blend has gotten wider

00:08:29 –> 00:08:36 and wider, and I’ve done this in a previous video before, but what you can do when your

00:08:36 –> 00:08:43 blend gets too wide, you can either roll it or fold it up a couple times like this, and

00:08:43 –> 00:08:50 like that…try not to trap any air in there, and then we can just squish it up, pushing

00:08:50 –> 00:08:55 in from end to end and then that will control the width of your blend, so that you don’t

00:08:55 –> 00:08:58 have one coming off of the side of your machine.

00:08:58 –> 00:09:07 So, that’s how you do a Rainbow Teardrop blend, let me just run it through one last

00:09:07 –> 00:09:08 time here, I’ll show you…

00:09:08 –> 00:09:23 now that I’ve shortened it up, control it on the side, there you go, isn’t that cool?

00:09:23 –> 00:09:29 So I hope that was helpful for you, if it was, do let me know if you liked this video,

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00:09:43 –> 00:09:46 So we’ll see you next time and bye for now.

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