Today I will show you some stages of creating the “Mushroom Story” panel from polymer clay. It seems to me that it will nicely decorate the nursery, since in the end we will have a nice corner of “living” nature :)
For work we will need: polymer clay (baked), a rolling pin or paste machine, a needle, a toothpick, a cutter, acrylic paints, glossy varnish, a toothbrush and our magical hands and imagination!
Our “mushroom story” will be placed on tree bark made of polymer clay, which means we’ll begin its stylized imitation.
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 become thin and smooth.
Roll out the resulting dough 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 excess along the contour with a blade, but do not crush the trimmings, they will be useful to us soon. And we begin to “work” on the layer - first with a toothbrush, and then with the help of a needle or toothpick - we draw lines: deep and not very deep, 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 remnants 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 there) and continue to texture with these additions. 
Let's start with mushrooms, and the first ones in our turn are chanterelles :)
I won’t show what colors I mixed... You can take a “pure” color, you can make a “mixture” of different available shades, and chanterelles come in different colors - bright orange, pale orange, yellow.
Roll up a ball, then a drop, apply the wide part to anything, even your finger, even the table; it was convenient for me to apply it to the modeling tool. Form a chanterelle shape 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 one is ready!
You can form a chanterelle directly on the panel - a ball, a droplet, we form a mushroom, immediately apply it to the base and draw grooves on it. But I’ll be honest - it seems easier, but it’s not very convenient...
Now I’m showing the process of creating moss (by the way, it also comes in different varieties) - take several colors of clay, mix lightly, tear off a piece and apply it 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. You need to do this in a circular motion, without going deep into the clay, but do it almost along the surface.
Now let's make some leaves! Take several colors of clay, stack them with each other as in the photo and make a color transition using a rolling pin or pasta machine (the layer must be folded and rolled always in the same direction). We simply cut out the leaves with a cutter, transfer them to the base and add texture there - we draw veins with a needle or toothpick.
If, according to your plan, your leaves are not flat, but somehow beautifully curved, then first make the texture of the leaf, and then transfer it to the base, giving the necessary bends.
It's time to blind White mushroom, how would we be without him in our mushroom history?!
I mixed white clay and a drop of beige clay - the end result was milky white. Roll two balls. Take the smaller one, give it the shape of a drop (this is the stem of a mushroom), attach it to the base, pressing 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 stem. Press firmly.
The cap of the white mushroom 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 of the white mushroom - we cut off thin strips and add moss balls and loosen everything.
Let's move on to the central mushroom of our composition - and for me it is the boletus. I really love these mushrooms!
We roll a milky white stem into a large drop, apply it to the base, press it and take a needle. We texture the leg like this - stick the very tip of the needle shallowly into the clay and pull the needle out upwards. Clay crumbs will begin to appear on the surface - that’s what we need. Later we will tint them, giving the leg more 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 the boletus hat to the stem and base. We texture it on top with a toothbrush.
It's time to tint the mushrooms - I rub a little pastel in delicate shades (light orange, yellow, beige) - I use a soft brush to tint the legs of the porcini mushrooms - in the photo the difference is almost not visible, but in real life it is noticeable. Still, the leg of the white mushroom is not perfectly white... We paint the hat brown acrylic paint- White hats also come in different colors - 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 you is a caterpillar. Take a small ball, roll it into a “sausage” on your palm, rolling it with the blunt end of the cutter on your palm, making circular cuts. The caterpillar shape is ready... next I painted the indentations with a brush 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. It had the task of showing leafy mushrooms, moss and a caterpillar, as well as an imitation of bark. But the panel was completely “overgrown” with details and a cobweb 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 even I don’t know who it is :)
I baked the work for 30 minutes at a temperature of 110 degrees, but you must watch the temperature indicated on your clay. After the work had cooled, I removed it from the cardboard, coated the caps of porcini mushrooms, the eyes of a frog, and a spider with a glossy Fimo varnish and applied dew drops with gel. Then I framed it in a white IKEA frame. You can admire it :)
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, master class on modeling, mushrooms, forest history, polymer clay
Materials: fimo polymer clay, rolling pin, varnish, acrylic paints, modeling tools
On the creation of 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 mushrooms that are as close to natural as possible. We will 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 can master it. These can be decorated into jewelry or as decor for the same home flower pots.
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 pasta machine;
- Round cutter with a diameter of 1 cm;
- Metal studs
Mushrooms made of polymer clay. Master Class
Let's get started:1. First, we need to mix white translucent plastic with a light brown tint until the color is uniform. 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 it 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. Using 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 about five minutes, and then make cuts while they are cold.
4. To prevent the scales from getting crushed, place the thin part of the leg on any hill so that there is a void between the working surface and the leg.
5. Using the point of a needle or toothpick, make grooves in the widest part of the leg.
6. Using a paste machine 4 mm wide, 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. Flatten the circle with your fingers and use the side of the needle from the center of the circle to make diagonal grooves across the entire surface of the figure.
8. From polymer clay of the main color, form a drop 1.5 cm long and the width of the largest part is at least 0.7 cm.
9. Find any round object in the house 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 round object and thread the metal rod of the nail through the loop inside the recess.
11. Attach the lower part with longitudinal grooves to the hat and firmly press the ends of the hat and the ribbed circle; you can add slight waviness and bends to the ends of the cap.
12. Attach the stem of the mushroom to the cap, opening part inwards. On the toadstool's cap you can make scales in a random order, the same as we did on the legs. You need to bake the products in a standing position, sticking the rod of the clove into the crumpled foil.
13. After firing, a translucent effect will appear and you will see what an interesting shade the mushrooms will take on. Using a thin brush, apply light brown acrylic paint to the scales of the toadstool's legs and cap. Paint the ends of the mushroom (root) generously with brown paint. Be sure to varnish the product so that the paint does not rub off from the finished product over time.
Use pliers to make a loop from the shaft of a protruding metal nail and secure the earrings in them. Earrings are toadstool or simply charming ready!
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MATERIALS:
- Foil sleeve
- Foil
- Band-Aid
- Wire (0.3mm, 1mm, 3mm)
- Shiloh (optional)
- Beads - 3-4 shades of green beads
- Floral tape
- Polymer clay
- Self-hardening clay
- Acrylic paints
- Primer
- Varnish or liquid glass.
PROGRESS:
The mushrooms came from a regular baking foil tube. I cut it into three parts and that’s it! The sleeve can be replaced simply with foil or newsprint.
We attach wire to the bushings and wrap them in foil. The shape should be oval, slightly elongated.
We wrap our heads well with adhesive tape. We make sure nothing moves.
We dilute plaster with PVA. The consistency is slightly thicker than sour cream. Cover the adhesive plaster thoroughly on all sides. No need for at this stage strive for smoothness. Just coat it and let it dry well.
On the dry surface we draw our face. Use your imagination, imagine what kind of expression you would like to convey to the mushrooms - cheerful, angry, surprised, playful, or maybe sad...
For me they all turned out a little the same. Kind of like a family of little shits.
Choose beads of the appropriate size for the eyes! The color of the beads is not important. We use an awl to make holes in the area of the drawn eyes - the first mushroom on the left. We drip a drop of glue into the eye sockets - there is a mushroom in the middle. We wait for the glue to dry a little and apply beads - a mushroom on the right. We do this on every mushroom!
These are the scary beauties we make!
Here you can see from the side how voluminous the nose and bridge of the nose should be.
We carefully highlight the brow ridges, the bridge of the nose, and apply more mass in the area of the temples and cheeks. And we begin to draw a little of the lip area.
From the side you can see where you need to apply more mass. We also stretch out the shape of the skull a little.
We gradually begin to create a smooth surface at the back. I moistened the mass a little with water, thereby achieving greater smoothness.
These are the beauties we already get after sculpting with self-hardening clay.
Don't worry if there are rough edges and inaccuracies. There is no need to sand anything yet.
Let's start working with baked polymer clay. Apply the mixture around the eyelids.
We immediately form the upper lip and cheekbones.
We do the lower eyelids. It is not necessary to achieve symmetry, let us have a slightly cross-eyed mushroom.
We roll balls for the nose and place a large ball in the middle, and two smaller ones in the area of the future nostrils.
Using stacks (it is advisable to use a stack with a ball), smooth the edges of the nose, the wings of the nostrils and the bridge of the nose.
Profile view.
Using a stack with a ball, smooth out the supralabial space, cheeks, cheekbones. In the area of the eyebrows we apply additional mass and also smooth it well.
Essentially, eyebrows are just sausages made of polymer clay. By laying them out in a certain way, you can get completely different facial expressions.
Gently smooth the polymer clay with a stack and a ball. The grooves left by the stack can be left. Let our mushrooms have some wrinkles.
Enlarging the cheeks.
Heat the clay and roll the sausage. Apply in the area of the lower lip.
We smooth it out well, making dimples in the corners of the mouth. The mouth can be made slightly open, or closed. Each mushroom will turn out differently.
We smooth out our face before the final baking. Then it will be difficult to fix!
We plant our toadstools in plaster (plaster plus water). We make headbands on the head from self-hardening clay and smooth out the joints with the back of the head. If you have unevenness in these areas, then level them with self-hardening or ceramic plastic. In some places on the mushrooms I deliberately made tears in the rims on the caps. But this is not at all necessary.
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 according to your desire. 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, wet the brush in water and smooth out any unevenness with a damp brush.
After drying, we go over our mushroom with a primer. If you don’t have one at hand, you can replace it with any base paint or acrylic paint for interior work.
This photo shows the curves of the legs.
We polish the caps. 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 use a file to file away the tear in the right place.
Let's start painting. Let's experiment. I also decided to add eyelashes to them!!! This is already the second coloring option, but as it turned out, not the final one.
This was the first color!!! We paint the legs on top with the same paint as the face, and gradually darken the bottom….
We paint the hats with brown umber!
Third color option.
Let's start growing grass. We string three beads onto a 0.3 mm wire.
Pull the wire through the two beads back.
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 colors towards the bottom of the petal.
We skip one bead and return to the axis by passing through the second bead.
We perform the same stage on the other side.
Place one bead on both ends. This will be our axial part of the leaf.
Using the same principle, we weave the second floor of the petal. We try to tighten the wire well!
So we weave five floors. At the end we twist both wires. The result is a pattern 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 pattern 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 leaves in different shades. We weave 120 pieces.
We arm ourselves with 1 mm wire. I have knitting wire. We will wrap our petals to this wire using floral tape.
We make a couple of turns and attach another leaf, and so on until there are about 7-8 petals per stem. We combine different colors of petals on one rod.
I ended up with ten such large branches.
Additionally, we simply weave loops of mixed green beads. The number of beads is different everywhere. This will be grass in the root area.
We use a hole punch to make holes in our stand (we have already painted it).
We cut off the extra roots from our branch, take a couple of extra leaves and put it all in a stand, first fill the hole with hot glue.
These are the beauties we made - DIY polymer clay mushrooms! We cover the work liquid glass or any available varnish.
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