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Bake Your OOAK
This may look like a glass convection oven, but don't be fooled, this is a great item for baking your OOAK polymer clay creations. I use this model of convection oven to bake my creations and it works beautifully for small items and fairies and such. No more baking polymer clay in the oven you cook dinner in (which is a bad thing to be doing)
Click the image to see the Deni Glass Convection Oven at Amazon.com
I’ve been too busy to get much work with polymer clay in, much less write about what I am doing (or rather not doing) with my clay projects. I am still around, though, and would love to be working on things here. I have plans to maybe change the site around some, so that might just happen before too much longer, we’ll see. I don’t want to mess with the links I know are out there on the Internet, so I am going to be sort of careful in just how I do this.
What brought me here today was the discovery of a kewl video on inking in crosshatching on a Manga drawing (you know, like Speed Racer) by a guy that has a bunch of drawing tutorials up on YouTube. The tutorials are by Mark Crilley, who does the Miki Falls: Spring (Miki Falls) books by HarperTeen (available in bookstores) and show what it takes to create Manga artwork. I’ve included one of the videos he has up at YouTube here, just so I can be sure to find them when I have some time to play around with drawing again. This one is for drawing a character in a fighting pose:
I was asked night before last about the teapot that I was supposed to make a tutorial of. That sort of got sidetracked when my nephew’s dog had puppies under my desk and I moved out of the office for a bit so I did not run over puppy toes with the wheels on the desk chair. I do need to get back to that tutorial, but it is going to take a little bit since I am sort of zoning on minimal sleep this week and as a result have a lot of things I have to catch up on in work.
It has been a while since I have been to this site and the first thing I thought on sitting back studying it just now is that it is too busy looking. I need to do some work on it, prune a bunch of the “busy” out of the way it looks, but not right now, I am hardly focusing at the moment and sort of drifting along doing minor checks on sites and uploading links to a privacy policy here needed. I’ll revamp this site later on.
I have put up a picture showing a sampling of some of my crafts, these are things I am working on or have made recently. Just to show you the kinds of things I get into working on…
Okay, I know this is not exactly a crafty project, but I want to let you all know about this because it is very cool for a first contest giveaway. (and I wanna win it ::snicker::)
Really, though, you need to check out the food blog, she has some wonderful recipes. (Helen, check out the pineapple upside down cake she has there! It’s listed under “desserts” in the “courses” menu. Looks like the one I used to make when I was a kid. I’m gonna make one for mom an’ dad.)
I recently began using ProSculpt for my figures and it is the most amazing stuff, if you have never tried it before get at least one block, you will see the difference immediately.
I use Sculpy for all of my base work, it is very soft and easy to work with and makes great figures. I used this clay exclusively in creating the wyvern that won two ribbons at the Alaska State Fair!
Books
I love this book, I have a copy of it and the information is perfect for any level of artist, but most particularly the beginner.
Tools
This is the pasta machine that I use, it's great for rolling out clay to cover armatures or for softening harder clays.
