Amazing greetings from summer! You can make such tangerines yourself from polymer clay. What a beauty! Just like the real ones!
We will need:
- polymer clay self-hardening;
- thin wire;
- leaf mold;
- oil paints: yellow, red, green;
- stacks for rolling;
- flat brush;
- PVA glue;
- a ball of foam or similar material shaped like a tangerine;
- scissors.
First, let's make the polymer clay orange. Take the mass, knead it in your hands and add two colors: red and yellow. Mix thoroughly until the color is uniform. Then, right on the palm of your hand, roll out a thin layer with a stack. Apply PVA glue to it and wrap the Styrofoam ball around it.
You have got such an orange ball. To give it the texture of a tangerine skin, take a needle and poke holes. Then wet your hands with water and smooth the surface.
Now take a coarse sandpaper and go over the surface with it, just do not rub, but just press it. Thus, we get a porous surface of the skin. Then we take a stack with a ball at the end and make a recess in the center on both sides symmetrically. Make rays around one recess. Mandarin is ready.
Now let's make the leaves. Take a piece of plastic and mix green paint with yellow. Mix thoroughly. Roll up a small sausage. Also, on the palm of your hand, roll out the stack into a thin layer in the shape of a leaf.
Using mold, give texture to the sheet. Roll out the edges so that they are slightly wavy.
Dip a piece of thin wire into PVA glue and insert it into the central vein of the leaf. Pinch the center with your fingers so that the wire goes into the clay.
Bend the top of the sheet outward. Roll up another sausage and pull out the ends as in the photo below.
Then, using nail scissors, cut from one end into five petals. Turn them out.
Roll out each petal. Make an indentation in the middle.
Put glue in the middle of the fruit and glue the green flower with the convex side out. Then roll another sausage from the green mass, roll it into a layer and wrap a piece of wire. Smooth out the connection.
Take a leaf, bend the lower end of the wire and insert it inside the stem. Then go with a dry brush with green paint and highlight the veins. Leave to dry.
For work we need:
1) polymer clay translucent orange and plain white, orange and green;
2) needle or pin;
3) a plastic blade or a clerical knife;
4) rolling pin, something for rolling clay;
5) acrylic art paint white color and brush;
6) toothpicks;
7) sandpaper (the smallest);
8) gel (liquid plastic);
9) fine edible salt;
10) plastic varnish.
To begin with, let's knead the translucent orange plastic. You can take a ready-made one from a pack, or you can add literally a drop of ordinary orange plastic to a colorless plastic with a PP effect (translucency) and mix thoroughly. The process of kneading the material is very important - thanks to it, the plasticizer will be evenly distributed over the material, and the product will subsequently be more durable. Therefore, even if the plastic turns out to be soft, fresh and, at first glance, immediately suitable for work, it is necessary to “knead” it for at least 1 minute.
From the mashed piece we will form a “sausage” (just roll it with our hands on the table) and cut into small pieces, preferably of the same size. With our fingers, we will give each piece the shape of a tangerine slice, and from them we will already assemble a whole “tangerine”. On average, I get 7 slices per tangerine.
I’ll note right away that it’s better to work with polymer clay with gloves on, so there are no fingerprints left on the product, and it looks much neater. But in this case, the tangerine will go through another grinding stage, so it is here that the presence of prints is not so critical.
Next, with the help of a needle or pin, we apply grooves to each slice - one vertical in the middle and several short ones at different angles:
As a result, I plan to use tangerines as beads, so with the help of the same needle I pierce a hole in the middle, after which I send the blanks to the oven for the first baking. If you plan to make just tangerines, then you do not need to make a hole.
It is very important at the same time to observe the temperature regime indicated on the plastic packaging. The duration of baking at the first stage may be small - about 5 minutes, because. this process will be repeated.
After baking, cover the beads with white acrylic artistic paint. Perhaps other types of paints will work, but I have not experimented with them, so I can not recommend. It is convenient to do this by putting a bead on a toothpick, still on a warm workpiece - this way the paint will dry faster. It is important that the paint gets into all the grooves.
We are waiting for drying, and then with the help of fine sandpaper we remove the layer of paint, leaving it only in the depressions.
Now let's prepare the "peel" for our fruits. Let's knead a piece of white and orange plastic, roll each into a layer, put it together and roll it again so that the thickness is about half a millimeter.
We tear the resulting layer into pieces a little larger than the size of the “tangerines”, wrap them with a “peel”. In this case, it is better to drop a little gel inside at the places where the “peel” is attached to the fetus. Here's what it should look like:
To give a “roughness”, dip each tangerine in fine salt and roll it in your hands so that the grains stick to the “peel”.
Again we send the beads to bake for 5 minutes. After baking, we throw it into water, the salt dissolves in it, and traces remain on the peel. It remains only to add the "stems" of green plastic beads to the beads. They also need to be attached to the baked with a gel.
The last baking, now better than 10-15 minutes. In this case, we will be sure that the beads are exactly baked. Then we varnish the tangerines (with the exception of the rough “peel”). This will give them a shine, and also protect the paint from erasing.
This master class on modeling is devoted to the manufacture of figurines from thermoplastic. There are many courses and classes that you can take to learn this fascinating business, but why not try to figure out the intricacies yourself? This article will definitely help you with this, and at the end we have prepared for you a selection of video modeling lessons for beginners from polymer clay. We hope they are educational!
We sculpt tangerines from polymer clay with our own hands quickly and easily
For this master class, we will need polymer clay of the required shades, a thick needle, a stationery knife, a rolling pin, artistic white acrylic paint, toothpicks, fine sandpaper, liquid plastic, fine sea salt and varnish.
We prepare the form and the desired texture
First you need to thoroughly knead the orange polymer clay, for about one minute. This is necessary so that all its components are evenly distributed in the material and during baking it is all polymerized. From plastic that has already become soft, we form a sausage, which must be cut into small identical pieces and sculpt our tangerine slices from them. For one fruit, we need about 7 slices.
On each slice we draw grooves with a needle, like on a real tangerine. Once you have formed a tangerine and worked out the structure, they must be pierced with a needle in the middle (if you will use them as beads) and sent to the oven for 5 minutes at the temperature indicated on the polymer clay package.
Adding realism with paint
Having fixed the still warm tangerine on a toothpick, we paint over it with white acrylic paint making sure that all grooves are filled with paint. As soon as the paint dries, you should take sandpaper and carefully polish the figures so that the white paint remains only in place of the grooves.
We make the peel and stalks
It is necessary to knead white and orange clay, roll out a thin layer from each, put it on top of each other and roll it out again. As a result, you should get a peel about half a millimeter thick.
We wrap the resulting tangerine peel, attaching them with plastic gel.
Then we dump each tangerine in salt to create the effect of an orange peel. You can also make a few unpeeled tangerines by simply rolling the orange plastic into balls and rolling them in salt.
Then we sculpt the stems from green polymer clay and attach them to the fruits with the help of a gel. We also pierce a hole in the stem and bake for 10-15 minutes. Our tangerines are almost ready, it remains only to open the slices with varnish, leaving the rough peel intact.
Assembling the finished product
Of course, you can leave tangerines as a beautiful original decoration on the shelf, but they can be used in a lot of jewelry, both as jewelry and as a decorative element.
Master class on creating a playful cat with plastic sausages
And now let's try to mold a wonderful figurine of a cat that will delight both you and your loved ones with its positive. In order to mold such a cat, we need polymer clay, dry pastels, a set of stacks and a fishing line that we use for whiskers. This task is a little more difficult than the tangerines from the first part, however, why not test your strength and give it a try. You will surely be able to sculpt it even prettier!
First, we qualitatively knead the plastic and form two balls of different sizes, then fasten them together with a toothpick, and give the desired shape to the body of the figure. With the help of modeling stacks, we make recesses for the eyes and draw a mouth.
From white and rose mastic we make eyes, muzzle and nose. We make holes for the mustache with a needle - after baking, the prepared fishing line will need to be glued into these holes with glue. We sculpt ears from gray and white plastic.
The next step is to blind his paws and tail. And we will connect all parts of the body together, and gently smooth out all the bumps.
We cut out the whiskers from the fishing line and proceed to the little chicken sitting on the cat's head. To do this, we take yellow (for the chick) and red (for the beak) plastic and sculpt a tiny bird.
Now we form sausages from a thin sausage. We connect all the elements together and send it to the oven “until cooked”, as indicated on the packaging of polymer clay. After baking the cat, you will need to decorate a little with dry pastel, glue the mustache and varnish it.
Compilation of videos for beginners
Try, experiment and creative success to you!
We present a master class on making tangerines from polymer clay in a fairly simple way.
To create a polymer clay tangerine, you will need:
1 piece of orange plastic;
- 1 piece of plastic of a lighter orange shade;
- various tools (in Fig. 1)
- 1 PC. old toothbrush;
- a real tangerine.
Polymer clay tangerines step by step:
Roll up a ball of lighter plastic and flatten it on both sides (Figure 2). Using suitable tools, start dividing the former ball into future slices (Fig. 3). First into two parts, then into four, and so on. Make a hole in the center with a toothpick (Figure 4).
In the hole formed in the center (and it can form on its own in the process of dividing into slices), put a small piece of white clay (Fig. 5). With the same toothpick, “structure” the tangerine (Figure 6). Fill the hollows between the lobules with thin flagella made of white plastic (Fig. 7). Send to the oven for 15 minutes.
Roll out the orange plastic, about 1 mm thick (Figure 8). Do the same with white plastic and put them on top of each other.
Press lightly, roll (fig. 9). Take a toothbrush and walk on both sides, pressing as unevenly as possible (Figure 10). Tear off strips of peel from the pancake, starting with a small piece for the back of the tangerine (Figure 11). Attach the peel to the already baked tangerine (Figure 12)
Make a peduncle out of brown-green plastic (Figure 13). Send to bake (time, temperature - see the plastic packaging).
At the end, the mandarin must be varnished in two layers, the peel in one layer. Polymer clay tangerines are ready! Compare the finished result with a real tangerine. From these tangerines you can collect a set of earrings or jewelry around the neck.
Polymer clay, or as it is also called thermoplastic, is an elastic mass convenient for creativity. It gives a lot of freedom for applying in various creative works. And today we will tell you how to make mandarin beads from polymer clay.
The main property of such clay is plasticity and softness due to plasticizers in the composition. And it hardens at a temperature of 100-130 ° C, after which it becomes solid and does not change its shape. In addition to color, there are thermoplastics with sparkles, liquid, translucent, stone imitation, etc. The resulting products are durable and are not afraid of water.
So, to create tangerines from polymer clay, we need:
Thermoplastic translucent orange and regular white, orange and green;
Pin or needle;
Plastic knife or clerical knife;
A device for rolling clay;
Acrylic white paint and brush;
Toothpicks;
Fine-grained sandpaper;
Liquid plastic (gel);
Edible salt (not coarse);
Lacquer for plastics
Work order:
To begin with, let's knead the translucent orange plastic. You can take a ready-made one from a pack, or you can add literally a drop of ordinary orange plastic to a colorless plastic with a PP effect (translucency) and mix thoroughly. The process of kneading the material is very important - thanks to it, the plasticizer will be evenly distributed over the material, and the product will subsequently be more durable. Therefore, even if the plastic turns out to be soft, fresh and, at first glance, immediately suitable for work, it is necessary to “knead” it for at least 1 minute.
From the mashed piece we will form a “sausage” (just roll it with our hands on the table) and cut into small pieces, preferably of the same size. With our fingers, we will give each piece the shape of a tangerine slice, and from them we will already assemble a whole “tangerine”. On average, I get 7 slices per tangerine.
I’ll note right away that it’s better to work with PG with gloves, so there are no fingerprints left on the product, and it looks much neater. But in this case, the bead will still go through the grinding stage, so it is here that the presence of prints is not so critical.
As a result, I plan to use tangerines as beads, so with the help of the same needle I pierce a hole in the middle, after which I send the blanks to the oven for the first baking. It is very important at the same time to observe the temperature regime indicated on the plastic packaging. If the temperature is exceeded, then the product can simply burn out, and with the release of very harmful substances. If the temperature is insufficient, the polymerization process will not go as it should - the plastic can become brittle, start to crumble or stick. But the duration of baking at the first stage can be small - about 5 minutes, because. this process will be repeated.
After baking, cover the beads with white acrylic art paint. Perhaps other types of paints will work, but I have not experimented with them, so I can not recommend. It is convenient to do this by putting a bead on a toothpick, still on a warm workpiece - this way the paint will dry faster. It is important that the paint gets into all the grooves.
We are waiting for drying, and then with the help of fine sandpaper we remove the layer of paint, leaving it only in the depressions.
Now let's prepare the "peel" for our fruits. Let's knead a piece of white and orange plastic, roll each into a layer, put it together and roll it again so that the thickness is about half a millimeter.
We tear the resulting layer into pieces a little larger than the size of the “tangerines”, wrap them with a “peel”. In this case, it is better to drop a little gel inside at the places where the “peel” is attached to the fetus. Here's what it should look like:
To give a “roughness”, we dip each bead in fine salt and roll it in our hands so that the grains stick to the “peel”. At this stage, I made a few more beads in the form of unpeeled tangerines, I need them as planned. I rolled up several orange balls, rolled them in salt, rolled them up, made grooves with a toothpick, and pierced a hole.
Again we send the beads to bake for 5 minutes. After baking, we throw it into water, the salt dissolves in it, and traces remain on the peel. It remains only to add the "stems" of green plastic beads to the beads. They also need to be attached to the baked with a gel. Don't forget to poke a hole.
The last baking, now better than 10-15 minutes. In this case, we will be sure that the beads are exactly baked. If the temperature is set correctly, then there is no danger of spoiling the work, even if we leave the tangerines in the oven for a longer time. Then we varnish the beads (with the exception of the rough “peel”). This will give them a shine, and also protect the paint from erasing.
With the help of various metal elements, tangerine beads can be assembled, for example, into such a set of jewelry (here, in addition to them, leaves and flowers, also made of polymer clay, were used):
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