软陶教程搓条文字说明【英文】.doc

先看一下成品图1.Condition at least 1 block of light color and 1 block of dark color clay. Make a light color log and a dark color sheet.2.Size the sheet so it can completely wrap around the logs perimeter. You now have a simple bullseye cane.3. Get creative with your new cane. Feel free to add a couple more sheets of various colors.4.Pinch the middle all the way around to form an hour glass shape. Gently and evenly pinch, pull and roll, working towards both ends. Watch the cane grow in length and shrink in diameter. This is called reduction.5.Make the cane at least 18 long and an even thickness from one end to the other. 6.Use a thin sharp blade to cut your cane into 7 2.5 inch long segments.7.Use one of the segments as a center and place the other segments around it. Gently press them together.8.Now pinch and reduce this log just like you did before until its 18 inches long.9.Cut your cane into 7 same length segments. Are you starting to get the idea? 10.Use one of the segments as a center and place the other segments around it. Gently press them together.11.Okay. Youve got the idea. You can repeat this cycle of cutting, combining and reducing until you are satisfied with the pattern that forms.12. Once you are satisfied with your bullseye lace cane, youre ready to decorate beads and many other things.13. Making and decorating beads: Roll a small piece of clay into a ball about the size of a marble. If you plan to cover the entire surface of bead, you can use scrap clay (leftovers from the ends of the cane or some old muddy color clay). If you wish for portions of the bead to show through, use a matching or complimentary color. Cut a few thin slices from your lace cane. (Hint for making same sized beads - roll out a sheet of clay, use an object to cut out pieces. Since all the pieces contain the same amount of clay, they will be the same size.)14. Left half: solid color beads, cane slices have been applied to one. Right half: scrap beads, cane slices have been applied to one.15. Place a covered bead in between the palms of your hands, apply even pressure while rolling the bead around.16. As you roll the bead about, the slices will gradually meld into the bead, forming one solid smooth finished surface. 17. Using a needle or needle tool, push straight down the middle of the bead.18. Pick up the bead and allow the needle to just barely poke through. Pull the needle out and push it into the bead from the other end. This technique will create nice smooth openings at both end, without leaving exit wounds.19. Its best to apply cane slices to spherical or cylindrical shapes, then, if desired, change to shape to something more complex. Generally, polymer clay cane slices can be applied to many different objects, not just polymer clay. Look around for something to dec