Lietz Teardrop Blend - Polymer Color Blends Made Easy

Video #452: Making smooth color blends without having to measure and cut out tedious triangle shapes. More Info: http://www.beadsandbeading.com/blog/?... Polymer Clay Tutor. Topics Covered In This Video: Last week I demonstrated how to do 2 different polymer clay color blending techniques... (1) The Stepped Graduated Color Blend... where each color shade is mixed individually by hand and then placed next to each other, to give the impression of blending from one color to the next. It is quite labor intensive and is difficult to get a smooth blend without a lot of work... http://www.beadsandbeading.com/blog/?... (2) The Skinner Blend Method... created by Judith Skinner, who took a more Scientific approach by cutting out triangles and positioning them to create a much faster and smoother color gradient... http://www.beadsandbeading.com/blog/?... In today's video, I am going to share with you my Lietz Teardrop Blend. It's probably the easiest and fastest way to make professional looking color blends, because it takes most of the measuring and thinking out of the process. The following link will take you to some of the early Lietz Teardrop Blend articles posted at my Polymer Clay Tutor blog... http://www.beadsandbeading.com/blog/?... [and you will find even more references by using "teardrop" as the keyword in the search box at my blog]. If you have ever had a challenge doing a Skinner Blend in the past (especially multi colored blends), then you are going to LOVE this Tear Drop Technique! In todays video I show examples of some jewelry items made using Teardrop Color Blends, based on the following PcT Tutorials... Easter Lily Cane... http://www.beadsandbeading.com/blog/?... Sweet Pea Earrings... http://www.beadsandbeading.com/blog/?... Frosted Rainbow Flower Beads... http://www.beadsandbeading.com/blog/?... Coneflower Beads... http://www.beadsandbeading.com/blog/?... Parrot Tulip Beads Tutorial... http://www.beadsandbeading.com/blog/?... With my Lietz Teardrop Blend you can easily create beautiful color blends using teardrop shapes of clay in any number of colors, without measuring cutting or needing to use math at all. You can even control the amounts of clay by simply changing the size of teardrop you start out with. I originally developed this technique about 10 years ago, by accident. I was rolling out shapes of clay, trying to figure out something new to make, and ended up laying out some teardrop shapes next to each other in an alternating fashion. It was then that I realized the shapes actually resembled triangles, and that they would probably make a great start for a Skinner Blend. Then with some tweaking, I came up with this easier and faster way to blend polymer clay colors... and never looked back! Additional Resources... http://www.beadsandbeading.com/blog/?...