My First Bird Polymer Clay Cane
Last Friday I shared my first buttons in polymer clay. This week I’m sharing my first bird cane in polymer clay. For those of you who do not know what a ‘cane’ is in polymer clay, it is a long roll of clay that has other colors and patterns in it. When you make slices from the end, the same pattern appears with each cut. Look at last Friday’s post for better pictures. I decided to make a bird we have locally, the Black-headed Grosbeak who lives in our pine-oak forests. I had those colors of clay and I like him. He has a short stout beak for seed cracking and is butterscotch and black with some white. I traced a picture of the bird, made a copy to put under my glass workspace and found my clay colors – butterscotch, black, white and tan. The limb is copper and gray. The body was first, then the head and last the wings. I put green around and all this sounds so much easier than it was and took longer too! I made a short cane and ended up with 3 somewhat