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08-10-09: A new member of CITY-o-Clay asked for tips and
advice. I thought I'd share what I wrote to her.
A question comes to mind.... how do you eat an
elephant?
One bite at a time.
How much do you know about polymer clay? Let's start there and then we can
figure out what links might be of benefit to you.
Off the top of my head I'd bookmark these websites:
http://www.clayalley.com
that's our official clay vendor, Karen Rhodes, she's wonderful and her
service is sterling.
http://www.glassattic.com
Diane Black has been gathering facts about polymer clay that were shared in
public forums like this, so there's quotes there from me and from many
people you'll see here. No pictures, just facts and links to other websites.
You wanted to know about jewelry...
http://www.glassattic.com/polymer/jewelry.htm Diane has a whole
page of information you can investigate.
I'd also suggest you look at her page on conditioning clay, something we
have to do to the clay before we can work with it ...or we will end up
weeping...
http://www.glassattic.com/polymer/Conditioning.htm
Heat setting the clay
http://www.glassattic.com/polymer/baking.htm
Giving things a finish
http://www.glassattic.com/polymer/finishes.htm
Since Diane quotes everyone she can her pages lead you to a boat load of
websites.
Some of the websites that helped me when I was starting out 10 years ago,
and who are still around...
http://www.polymerclaycentral.com/ Leigh and Steve Ross have been
running this site since forever and they also have a forum at delphi.
http://www.pcpolyzine.com/ Jeannie Havel is editor at this site
and there's a link to tutorials
http://www.pcpolyzine.com/tutorials.html
http://www.polyclay.com/links.htm Sarajane's site was
inspirational to me and is chock o block full of information.
My website has been said to be a PITA to get around in. I look at it like
spelunking, cave exploration. I didn't have a plan, I just record what I've
stumbled over over the years. My site is the flying buttresses to this
group, it's support. That being said the first three years of discoveries
will have some basic techniques explored
http://www.norajean.com/Biz-Archive/Tute-List.htm
all the other experiments and explorations build off of the techniques I
discovered in the first year
http://www.norajean.com/Tute-List.htm
Over the 10 years that I've been honored to host this group I've had my
share of rambles, where I just natter on about stuff....
http://www.norajean.com/ramble-index.htm
and
http://www.norajean.com/Rambles/CurrentRants.htm
You'll notice that the top of those two pages have identical links for the
new clayer... those rambles are for you.
Lastly, there's "Reviews" where I will review a particular technique and it
has its own index page
http://www.norajean.com/New_Projects/Review-Index.htm
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