How to Create a Unique Wall Piece

 

Hello everyone! My name is Cinnamon Willis and I am going to show you how I created this cute wall piece!

Supplies:

Gloves
Drill with small bits
Copper acrylic paint
Drop cloth or someplace to work on that can support a mess
Creative Paperclay®
Water
Sanding paper

Roll and flatten out your clay. I used a lid to a container to flatten and then cut a disc out like you would with a cookie cutter.

When you get the shape just right, take your disc and set it aside to dry. Monitor the drying to make sure that the disc doesn't warp upwards. You might want to set a book on top of the clay with a piece of parchment paper in between.

When the piece dries, take your drill and drill the a hole in the top of the disk.

The nice thing about paperclay is that you can draw directly on it like paper. Draw the design that you would like to have on your piece. 

Just like with paper, you can erase your drawings with a eraser. You can go back and forth with your design until you are happy with it.

Paint your piece with any type of acrylic paints that you would like to use. I choose to put gold on the side of my piece.

Use a protective coating to seal your piece. This is how it turned out.

Thank you all once again for stopping by, and I hope that you enjoyed today's tutorial! You can find Creative Paperclay® at the following retailers Creative Paperclay® Online Store, Michael's, Amazon, Joann's.

See more of my work at Melandolly.com, catch updates on 

my Instagram page and here is a link to my shop!

How to Create a Cache Pot with Paperclay Embelishments

Hello everyone! My name is Cinnamon Willis and I am going to show you how I created this cache pot for my small hoya plant!

Supplies:

Plaster of Paris
2 Plastic quart containers
Plastic drinking cup
Gloves
Mask
Drop cloth or someplace to work on that can support a mess
Wood stick or something to mix plaster with
Creative Paperclay®
Water
Rocks
Sanding paper

First start off with getting your materials in order. Cover your work area with a drop cloth (I have a board that I work on instead), gloves, your container for plaster, container for water, stirrer and empty drinking cup with rocks in it. When you have all of your materials together, measure out your plaster in one cup and measure your water in another cup. Whatever amount of plaster you'd like to use, you would need half of that amount to be water. For example 2 cups of plater would need to be mixed with 1 cup of water. 

Start sprinkling your plaster into your cup of water. It is important for you to sprinkle the plaster around the entire surface and not dump it into a pile in the middle. When you are done sprinkling, take your mixing tool and stir the mix until it is uniform and creamy. 

Take your small drinking cup and place it in the center of the mixing container. Fill the cup with rocks so that the plaster doesn't make it rise out of the container. Make sure you leave about an inch between the bottom of the cup and the base of the mixing cup so that the plaster fills under it. Let it sit to cure for about 48 hours.

Lightly tap the bottom and the sides of the container to release your pot.

Remove your cup . 

Start cleaning up some of the imperfections from the plaster. I use a combination of sanding and cutting with an exacto knife.

Brush down the area that you want to apply paperclay with water. Paperclay will not stick to a dry plaster surface, so you might need to continue applying water to the surface a couple of times until it begins to stick to it.

Work on the face in stages. I worked on the top part and set it aside to dry for around 24 hours.

After letting the piece dry, I came back to sand down some parts that I wanted to be smooth.

Repeat the last two steps as much as needed. Work up the piece and come back to sand things down for a smooth finish. 

Use a protective coating to seal your pot. I highly recommend you to water your plant outside of this pot and place it back after letting it drip dry first to prolong the life of the plaster.

Thank you all once again for stopping by, and I hope that you enjoyed today's tutorial! You can find Creative Paperclay® at the following retailers Creative Paperclay® Online Store, Michael's, Amazon, Joann's.

See more of my work at Melandolly.com, catch updates on 

my Instagram page and here is a link to my shop!

How to Create a Bas Relief Sculpture: Revisited

Hello everyone, Cinnamon here and I am going to show you how I created this relief sculpture portrait.

I've done this tutorial sometime last year for the piece on the left, but I wanted to revisit this project to push the details a bit further. It's always a good idea to be critical of your work and see where you can make improvements as an artist. 

Supplies:

• Creative Paperclay®
• Small hand roller or something to flatten out clay
• Exacto knife 
• Sand paper
• Wire bristle brush
• Saran wrap
• plastic knife

I chose to create my own silhouette from an image I found online in a computer illustrating program, you can make a sketch by hand if you want instead. This is a portrait from the project when I first did I last year. I chose to add some flowers to the neckline.

I took the silhouette and printed it out to the size that I wanted the portrait to be. Again, you can just do this by hand and not get on the computer to do this step if you choose. I put some saran wrap over the print so that the clay doesn't stick to the paper. This allows me to move my piece around and be able to check the progress without damaging the paper guide underneath.

I began to take my clay and started working on the shape over the portrait guide. You can use a plastic knife or anything that allows you to sculpt little details while the clay is still pliable. It's important to get your basic shape down at this point so that you don't have to do as much sanding and cutting into the clay later.

Keep building up the piece and focus on getting the profile to the point where you would like it to be.  

I used this ball point tool to add some texture to the hair by slightly pressing it into the clay

I knew that I wanted the piece to have a headband and a lot more details then the last one, so I kept building the pieces up as I went long and making adjustments as I go. 

 

Here I am experimenting with adding flowers to the base of the sculpt and I started experimenting with earrings to add to the piece. I also filled in some of the face like in the cheek area and around the forehead.

I was not happy with the hair at this point, I used this wire bristle brush to add some texture for a new hairstyle. 

I changed the hairstyle into dreadlocks to challenge myself since I've never sculpted them before. I used the wire brush here to give the type of texture that looked like real hair to me for the dreads. I set the piece aside to allow it to dry. I changed the earrings as well.

After the piece dried, I used a 1600 grit piece of sandpaper to get the piece to have a high gloss sheen to it. This is how she turned out.

Thank you all once again for stopping by, and I hope that you enjoyed 

today's tutorial! You can find Creative Paperclay® at the following 

retailers Creative Paperclay® Online Store, Michael's, Amazon, Joann's.

See more of my work at Melandolly.com, catch updates on 

my Instagram page and here is a link to my shop!

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Create a New Magnet for Your Refrigerator

Hello and happy Friday everyone! Today's tutorial is going to cover how I created this magnet for the fridge. This is a fun and easy project, you will need the following items:

Supplies:

• paperclay
• white acrylic paint
• magnet
• Aqua blue and magenta colored pencils
• ruler
• varnish
• baking pin or anything that can be used to roll the clay flat
• plastic knife or similar clay tool
• wax paper

First start off by getting a fresh piece of paperclay and lay it on a sheet of wax paper. Use a rolling pin or anything that can be used to roll the clay flat. I am using a soup container here.

When you get the clay flat, cut out your square shape for the sheet of paper. You will also want to cut out your holes and zig zag pattern at this stage while the clay is still moist.

This is also a good time to make an indent for your magnet on the back of the piece. Press your magnet into the center of the piece, but make sure not to press too deep into the piece. You do not want the magnet to go through the clay on the other side. When done, sit the piece aside and allow it to dry.

When the piece dries, flip it around to the front which should be flat. If there are any imperfections, you can sand them down flat here.

Paint the piece with white acrylic paint. Put a few coats and sit it out to dry.

Flip the piece over and secure the magnet with glue. I am using a glue gun here, let the glue dry and flip it back to the front.

Draw the vertical line with your ruler and magenta pencil. Next you will be drawing the horizontal blue lines. Use a piece of loose-leaf paper to use as reference to get the lines right if you need to.

Now draw a picture or write a nice message that you would like to see everyday on your fridge!

Use your pencils and draw what you would like on your piece. Seal with varnish to protect it from chipping.

now place it on the fridge with the rest of your magnet collection!

Thank you all once again for stopping by, and I hope that you enjoyed today's tutorial! You can find Creative Paperclay® at the following retailers Creative Paperclay® Online Store, Michael's, Amazon, Joann's.

See more of my work at Melandolly.com, catch updates on 

my Instagram page and here is a link to my shop!