SPOOL BEAD Project
A Few Supplies
Coat wooden spools with gesso and allow to dry.
Then coat spools with acrylic paint
and allow to dry
Roll out a sheet of scrap clay with a pasta machine or brayer.
Cover the sheet with cane slices and smooth with a brayer.
Use a sharp blade to carefully trim any too-thick seams (where cane-edge meets cane-edge)
Run sheet of clay through the pasta machine to smooth it out.
Trim clay to fit around spool.
(You could cut a template, but I just put the spool down
and eyeball it.)
Wrap clay around the spool, trim the length, and smooth edges together.
Use your blade, fingernails, or favorite tool to straighten out and neaten up the edges.
A variation upon the theme....
A few more supplies
Trim eraser to desired size with an old blade.
Design stamp on a piece of scrap paper and transfer it to eraser with rubbing alchohol.
Or simply draw design on eraser.
Carve away anything that isn't part of the design.
Safety First! Carve AWAY from yourself.
Wrap a wooden spool with clay (as in the first variation.) Then hold spool by wooden edges
and roll it along stamp, as if it's a wheel. You may have to pick up the spool,
and start back at the beginning of the stamp to cover the whole thing with texture. This is one
of those things that gets easier with practice.
Then, accent clay with Radiant Pearls. (or Pearl-Ex,or Lumiere paints, or tinted liquid clay,
or ?????)
Bake for the required amount of time, and complete with your favorite finishing technique.
(Leave matte, sand and buff, varnish with sealer, etc.)
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