Clay mushrooms in a jar. Panel "Mushroom Story" made of polymer clay. Polymer clay mushrooms. Master Class

MATERIALS:

• Foil sleeve
• Foil
• Adhesive plaster
• Wire (0.3mm, 1mm, 3mm)
• Shiloh (optional)
• Beads - 3-4 shades of green beads
• Floor tape
• Polymer clay
• Self-hardening clay
• Acrylic paints
• Primer
• Varnish or liquid glass.

PROGRESS:

The mushrooms came from a regular baking foil sleeve. I cut it into three parts and that's it! The sleeve can be replaced simply with foil or newsprint.

We attach the wire to the bushings and wrap it with foil. The shape should be oval, slightly elongated.

We carefully wrap our heads with adhesive plaster. We see that nothing moves.

We breed gypsum with PVA. The consistency is slightly thicker than sour cream. We coat the adhesive plaster thoroughly from all sides. There is no need to strive for smoothness at this stage. Just coat and let dry well.

Draw our face on the dry surface. Turn on your imagination, imagine what kind of expression you would like to convey to the mushrooms - funny, angry, surprised, playful, and maybe sad ...

I got them all a little the same. Kind of like a family of toes.

Choosing the right size for your eyes! The color of the beads is not important. We make holes with an awl in the area of \u200b\u200bthe drawn eyes - the first mushroom on the left. We drip a drop of glue into the eye sockets - a mushroom in the middle. We are waiting for the glue to dry a little and apply the mushroom beads on the right. We do this on every mushroom!

These are such scary beauties we get!

Here you can see from the side how voluminous the nose and the bridge of the nose should be.

We carefully select the brow ridges, the bridge of the nose, apply more masses in the area of \u200b\u200bthe temples and cheeks. And we begin to draw a little the area of \u200b\u200bthe lips.

It is more visible from the side where you need to impose more masses. We also stretch the shape of the skull a little.

At the back, we gradually begin to make a smooth surface. I slightly moistened the mass with water, thereby achieving greater smoothness.

These are the beauties we already get after modeling with self-hardening clay.

Don't worry if there are any roughness or inaccuracies. You don't need to grind anything yet.

We begin to work with polymer baked clay. We apply a mass in the area of \u200b\u200bthe eyelids.

Form the upper lip and cheekbones immediately.

We make the lower eyelids. It is not necessary to achieve symmetry, let us have a little cross-eyed mushroom.

We roll the balls for the nose and put a large ball in the middle, and two smaller ones in the area of \u200b\u200bfuture nostrils.

Smooth with stacks (preferably using a stack with a ball) the edges of the nose, wings of the nostrils and the bridge of the nose.

Profile view.

With a stack with a ball, smooth out the supra-labial space, cheeks, cheekbones. In the area of \u200b\u200bthe eyebrows, we apply an additional mass and also smooth it well.

Essentially, eyebrows are just sausages from polymer clay... Laying them out in a certain way, you can get completely different facial expressions.

We smooth out the polymer clay with a stack with a ball. The grooves left by the stack can be left. Let there be some wrinkling in our mushrooms.

We increase the cheeks.

We heat the clay and roll the sausage. We apply in the area of \u200b\u200bthe lower lip.

We smooth it out well, make dimples in the corners of the mouth. The mouth can be made ajar or closed. Each mushroom will turn out differently.

Smooth our muzzle before final baking. Then it will be difficult to fix it!

We put our grebes in plaster (plaster of paris plus water). From self-hardening clay we make rims on the head and smooth out the joints with the back of the head. If you have irregularities in these areas, then level them with self-sealing or keramoplasty. In some places near the mushrooms, I deliberately made tears in the rims on the caps. But this is not necessary at all.

We prepare a mixture of gypsum and PVA. We begin to coat our legs in the root area.

By the way, at this stage, you can still bend the legs as you wish. Do it now, otherwise it won't work out later!

We dilute the mixture of gypsum and PVA to the consistency of thick sour cream and begin to coat the legs.

After the mixture is applied, soak the brush in water and smooth out all the irregularities with a damp brush.

After drying, we go over our primer with a mushroom. If this is not at hand, then you can replace with any paint under the base or acrylic paint for interior work.

This photo shows the curves of the legs.

Grinding the hats. It is not necessary to achieve perfect evenness, because our mushrooms are more cartoonish than realistic.

By the way, at this stage, you can still add tearing in the rims. Just cut the tear in the right place with a file.

Let's start painting. Experimenting. I also decided to attach cilia to them !!! This is the second color option, but as it turned out, not final.

This was the first color !!! Paint the legs on top with the same paint as the face, and gradually darken the bottom ....

We paint our hats with brown umber!

The third color option.

We start growing grass. We string three beads onto a 0.3 mm wire.

Pull the wire back through two beads.

We string two beads onto one of the ends. By the way, you can try to play with color. Make the top lighter, and choose darker tones at the bottom of the petal.

Skip one bead and return to the axis by passing through the second bead.

We do the same stage from the other side.

We put one bead on both ends. This will be our axial part of the leaf.

By the same principle, we weave the second floor of the petal. We try to tighten the delay well!

So we weave five floors. At the end we twist both wires. The result is a scheme of 3 beads on top - 2 + 2 on the sides - 1 central - 2 + 2 - 1 - 2 + 2 - 1 - 2 + 2 - 1 - 2 + 2

The second version of the leaf is woven according to the same principle, only according to the scheme 3 - 3 + 3 -1 - 3 + 3 - 1 - 3 + 3 - 1 - 3 + 3 - 1 - 3 + 3. That is, the leaf will be slightly larger than the previous one.

We make the leaves in different shades. We weave 120 pieces.

We arm ourselves with a 1 mm wire. I have a knitting wire. We will tie our petals to this wire using a floral ribbon.

We make a couple of turns and attach another leaf and so on up to about 7-8 petals per rod. Combine different colors of petals on one rod.

I got ten such large branches.

Additionally, we simply weave loops from mixed green beads. The number of beads is different everywhere. This will be the grass in the root area.

We make holes in our stand with a hole punch (we have already painted it).

We cut off the extra roots from our branch, take a couple of additional leaves and put all this in a stand, pre-fill the hole with hot glue.

These are the beauties - do-it-yourself polymer clay mushrooms - we did it! We cover the work with liquid glass or any available varnish.

To create toadstool mushrooms, which has no analogues on the Internet. But this is not the main feature of this lesson, the main thing is that we will create very realistic, as close as possible to natural mushrooms. We need only two shades of clay, and a minimum of the most basic tools for working with polymer clay. The lesson is not difficult and any beginner will master it. These can be decorated in jewelry or as a decor for the same home pots with flowers.

Materials and tools used in sculpting:

• necessarily translucent white and a piece of brown clay;
• Light brown acrylic paint;
• Needle or toothpick;
• Blade;
• Acrylic rolling pin or paste machine;
• Round cutter with a diameter of 1 cm;
• Metal carnations

Polymer clay mushrooms. Master Class

Let's get down to:
1. First, we need to mix the white translucent plastic with a light brown tint to a uniform color. Take plastic in a ratio of 10: 1 (white: brown).

2. Peel off a piece of plastic and wrap it around the metal rod of the nail. So that he is completely hidden inside the clay. Give the leg a rounded shape in the form of a drop - wider at the bottom and thinner at the top.

3. With a very sharp blade, make scales (notches) on the entire surface of the mushroom stem. Do this carefully so as not to deform the leg. If the plastic is too soft and cannot be cut with scales, then put the legs in the freezer for five minutes, and then, while they are cold, make notches.

4. To prevent the scales from crushing, put the thin part of the leg on any hill so that there is a void between the working surface and the leg.

5. With the point of a needle or toothpick, make grooves in the widest part of the leg.

6. On a 4 mm wide pasta machine, roll out a layer of white-brown clay and use a round cutter with a diameter of no more than 1 cm to cut out two shapes.

7. Using your fingers, flatten the circle and with the side of the needle from the center of the circle, make diagonal grooves on the entire surface of the figure.

8. Form a drop of 1.5 cm long and at least 0.7 cm wide at the largest part using polymer clay of the base color.

9. Find in the house any rounded object with a diameter of no more than 7 mm and put the rounded part of the drop on it, since we need to make a depression in the drop - the future hat polymer clay mushroom.

10. Remove the cap from the rounded object and thread the metal bar of the stud into the recess.

11. Attach the bottom part with longitudinal grooves to the hat and firmly press the ends of the hat and ribbed circle, you can add slight waviness and bends to the ends of the hat.

12. Attach the stem of the mushroom to the cap, open partly inward. On the toadstool's hat, you can make scales in random order, the same as we did on the legs. You need to bake the products in a standing position, sticking the clove rod into the crumpled foil.

13. After firing, the effect of translucency will appear and you will see what an interesting shade the mushrooms will acquire. Using a thin brush, apply a light brown acrylic paint to the scales of the toadstool's feet and caps. Paint the ends of the mushroom (root) with plenty of brown paint. Be sure to cover the product with varnish so that the paint does not wear off over time from the finished product.

From the rod of the protruding metal nail, use round-nose pliers to make a loop and fix the hooks in them. Toadstool earrings or simply adorable ready!

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Today I will show you some of the steps involved in creating the Mushroom Story panel from polymer clay. It seems to me that it will pleasantly decorate the nursery, as in the end we will have a nice corner of "living" nature :)

For work we need: polymer clay (baked), a rolling pin or paste machine, a needle, a toothpick, a cutter, acrylic paints, glossy varnish, a toothbrush and our magic hands and imagination!

Our "mushroom story" will be located on the bark of polymer clay, which means that we are starting to imitate it stylized.

Take several colors of clay, knead in your hands, roll into sausages, connect and start twisting, tightly, from beginning to end, fold the resulting spiral in half and start twisting again.

Repeat this operation several times until the color lines are thin and smooth.

Roll the resulting workpiece along the lines using a rolling pin or pasta machine.

We put cardboard on the resulting layer (I have a square of 14 by 14 cm), cut off all unnecessary along the contour with a blade, but we do not crush the trims, they will soon come in handy. And we begin to "work" on the layer - first with a toothbrush, and then using a needle or a toothpick - we draw lines: deep and not very, long and short, that is, we do everything so that the layer becomes heterogeneous in texture and looks more like tree bark.

This is where the remains from the layer come in handy - we tear them along the fibers and put them on the layer in the upper part (there is no point in the lower part, since there will be mushrooms, leaves and moss) and continue to texture with these additions.

We proceed to the mushrooms, and the first ones are chanterelles :)

I will not show what colors I mixed ... You can take a "pure" color, you can make a "mixture" from different shades available, and chanterelles are different - bright orange, pale orange, yellow.

Roll a ball, then a drop, attach it with its wide part to anything, even to a finger, even to a table, it was convenient for me to attach it to a sculpting tool. Form the shape of a chanterelle and draw grooves with a needle.

Then, with the blunt side of the blade, lift the edges away from the ball and remove the mushroom. The first is ready!

You can form a chanterelle directly on the panel - a ball, a droplet, form a mushroom, immediately apply it to the base and draw grooves on it. But to be honest, this seems to be easier, but not very convenient ...

Now I show the process of creating moss (it can also be different, by the way) - take several colors of clay, mix slightly, tear off a piece and apply either to the base of the mushroom or to the base and begin to loosen the surface of the clay with a needle or sharpened toothpick. This should be done in a circular motion, without going deep into the clay, but almost on the surface.

Now let's make the leaves! Take several colors of clay, fold them together as in the photo and make a color transition using a rolling pin or a paste machine (the layer must be folded and rolled always in one direction). We simply cut the leaves with a cutter, transfer them to the base and add texture there - we draw veins with a needle or a toothpick.

If, according to the idea, you will not have flat leaves, but somehow beautifully curved, then first make the texture of the leaf, and then transfer it to the base, giving the necessary bends.

It was the turn to mold a porcini mushroom, how could it be without it in our mushroom history ?!

I mixed white clay and a drop of beige to make it milky white. Roll up two balls. Take the smaller one, give it the shape of a drop (this is a mushroom leg), attach it to the base, pressing it tightly, and begin to texture - make many, many notches with the sharp part of the cutter. We do not need deep cuts, but barely visible stripes along the entire leg.

Now make a hat from the second ball and place it on top of the leg. Press firmly.

The white mushroom's cap is smooth, but we will texture the lower part with a toothbrush.

And then we will use the scraps from the leaves and make the base near the white mushroom - cut off thin stripes and apply + moss balls and loosen everything.

We proceed to the central mushroom of our composition - and for me it is a boletus. I love these mushrooms very much!

We roll a leg in the form of a large drop from a milky white color, apply it with the base, press and take a needle. We texture the leg like this - we stick the very tip of the needle shallowly into the clay and pull out the needle with an upward movement. Clay crumbs will begin to appear on the surface - that's what we need. Later we will tint them, giving the leg a great naturalness. Next, you need to make a hat - I mixed orange with a small amount of brown clay, formed it with my hands and pressed a boletus hat to the leg and base. We will texture it on top with a toothbrush.

It's time to tint the mushrooms - I rub a little pastels of delicate shades (light orange, yellow, beige) - I tint the legs of porcini mushrooms with a soft brush - the difference is almost invisible in the photo, but in real life it is noticeable. Still, the leg of the white mushroom is not perfectly white ... We paint the hat with brown acrylic paint - the hats of the white one are also different - from dark brown to very light.

And we tint the boletus leg with black acrylic paint - put a little paint on the brush, then wipe the brush almost dry on a napkin and apply it to the leg with light patting movements.

Well, the last thing I will show is a caterpillar. Take a small ball, roll a "sausage" on your palm, roll it with the blunt end of the cutter on your palm, make circular notches. The shape of the caterpillar is ready ... then I painted over the recesses with a brush with black paint, and applied the yellow dots with a toothpick. You can plant it on a mushroom.

Well, the "Mushroom Story" master class has come to an end. The task was to show the leaf mushrooms, moss and caterpillar, as well as imitation of the bark. But the panel was completely "overgrown" with details and a spider web with a spider, a ladybug, a frog appeared and additional bark was added using the craquelure technique, and also someone unknown is looking at us from a mini hollow ... But who it is - I don't even know :)

I baked the work for 30 minutes at a temperature of 110 degrees, but you should definitely look at the temperature indicated on your clay. After the work had cooled down, I took it off the cardboard, covered the caps of porcini mushrooms, the eyes of a frog, a spider with Fimo's glossy varnish, and applied dew drops with gel. Then she designed it in a white IKEEV frame. You can admire :)

I hope you liked the process and the result, and I will be glad if it helps you come up with something of your own, no less original!

Keywords: children 2015, modeling workshop, mushrooms, forest history, polymer clay

Materials: polymer clay fimo (fimo), rolling pin, varnish, acrylic paints, modeling tools