Do you know the dotting tool? This small tool with a ball tip allows you to do wonders. You can use it to create patterns made up of dots of varying sizes. In this tutorial Delphine shows you how she handles the dotting tool to perfection. Follow this step by step tutorial to make a polymer clay pendant with cherry blossom pattern using the dotting tool.
As you know, it is up to you to make this tutorial your own to create an original piece of jewellery that suits you. Some ideas:
- transform this jewel into a pair of earrings
- draw a unique pattern
- choose your favorite colors of polymer clay and acrylic paint
- choose a cookie cutter with an original shape
And if you particularly like the dotting tool technique, here is another tutorial to reproduce or to decline : dotting tool painting key ring by Karine
As you can see, you just have to let your imagination run wild. It's up to you!
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Condition your polymer clay (here, white cernit 100% opaque). Put your dough in the MAP (dough machine) at step 1 (here, Atlas 180). Position your EP (cookie cutter).
Cut out your dough with the cookie cutter, smooth the edges. Bake according to the manufacturer's instructions
Draw a branch with a pencil
Take your dotting tool n°3 (medium tip). To make it easier, number your dotting tool with a permanent marker (optional). Load it with brown acrylic paint and apply it on your piece without the dots touching each other but close enough and regularly without reloading paint in order to obtain a decreasing dot from the beginning to the end of the branch.
Attention! your gesture must be precise without pressing too hard with delicacy.
Continue your dotting by shading from larger to smaller along the branch.
Feel free to wipe your dotting tool with a piece of cloth or paper towel.
Once you have finished your branch, let it dry before applying the rest of the acrylic paint.
Take your dottin tool n°2 (size below the 3), load your acrylic paint tip and start to put red dots randomly around your branch tip, always without reloading your tip in order to make decreasing dots.
When it seems to you sufficiently loaded with red dots, pass to the other branch by taking care not to touch the fresh paint because the red could not be cleaned on the white.
Continue to place your randomly decreasing points on the rest of your branch tips
When you put all the red dots, wait until they are dry to put the pink one on top.
Now take your dotting tool n°1 (1st size of tip, the smallest one) and load it with pink paint and delicately put on the edges of the red dots always respecting the decreasing order of the red dots.
Be careful ! at this stage wipe your dotting tool each time you refill the pink acrylic paint.
Continue to apply the pink on the dots, being careful not to touch the freshly applied paint with your hand and not to forget any red dots.
When you have finished filling the red dots with pink......Oufffffff
Wait for the paint to dry for 24 hours, then apply the matt varnish according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Last step......mounting.
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