We’ll start off this spirited class by looking to ancient cultures as our inspiration to create Rattles, Rattle Pendants and Rattle Beads from beautifully designed sheets and balls of polymer clay. Add dimension to your work by adding sound! The rattles can be in many shapes and sizes, from simple forms to more sculptural and complex. Single rattles for music-making, a series of rattle beads for a necklace, pendants with a rattle bead centerpiece, rattle bead figures- many variations will be explored. We’ll learn and use several surface design techniques- Millefiore, embossing and texture, carvings, and sculptural elements will adorn the rattles and also serve as bead caps.
Supply List:
- Work Surface
- To Roll out the Clay (one of these): a pasta machine, an acrylic rolling rod, a brayer, OR a smooth glass jar or bottle
- Xacto knife
- Needle tool or long needle
- Polymer Clay cutting blade
- Scissors
- Objects for impressions and molds: jewelry, rubber stamps, buttons, charms, found objects
- 2 silverware soup spoons- these will not be harmed- we will use them for molds
- Polymer Clay- (2 ounce blocks)
- 1 Tan (Sahara in FIMO Soft, Ecru in Premo)
- 1 White
- 1 transparent/translucent
- 3-5 colors of your choice
Teacher will bring:
- Other molds for rattles
- Paints
- Texture tools and personal molds
- Carving tools to share
- Pearlex powders
- Other surface treatments for the clay
A Little About ME
Dayle Doroshow is a mixed media/ polymer clay artist and owner of design studio Zingaro, stamp of distinction. She trained in traditional ceramics in New York City and sold her pottery in Greenwich Village shops. She studied Book Arts at California Crafts College and San Francisco Center for the Book. Her jewelry, home decor, and handcrafted books can be seen at art shows on the West Coast. Dayle enjoys teaching and sharing the creative process in workshops across the United States and in France.
