(C) Hi guys its Cindy Lietz, your Polymer
Clay Tutor and we are here in The Dalles, it's called. And I'm with Stephanie, one of our members
from this area. (S) Hi everyone. (C) And we were sitting here talking about
clay and all that stuff, of course, and she saw one of the Lentil Beads from this necklace,
oh this is an oldie but a goodie, this Lentil Bead here, and she says she doesn't know how
to do it. So I'm gonna show her how, it won't be the
same of course, but something like this. So can you see this Doug? This spot here?So I'm just gonna take a couple
of colors of clay. Something that has a little bit of contrast. You could use a piece of cane or something
like that. And what I'm gonna do is just turn it into
a ball here, and warm it up. And having some different colors in the…in
your clay when you have it started will help you get some swirling of colors. (S) Okay. (C) Now what you can do when you have… and
these pieces here, we used sections of cane. And you'll see in the tutorial, some of the
other ways of going about it. Being in the trailer and I don't have my normal
little thing that I use, but I have this little tiny die cutting plate, it’s a little piece
of plastic, so this will work. I just checked it out and the little scratches
on there aren’t gonna cause much of a problem. So I'm just going to put this, flatten it
out a little bit, to kinda start, not too much. And I’m gonna make sure I have now all 3
colors kind of showing up at the top. And I'm gonna put my fingers on so that they're
sticking down. And the trick is that you have your, I don't
know if Doug can see, but you have your fingers on the surface like that and when you're moving
it, it's keeping it even. What happens when you're trying to roll it
sometimes if you have it at a funny angle it'll go all wonky. So I'll show you and then I'll show you what
things can go wrong and you can try it. (S) Okay. (C) So normally I have one that’s a little
clearer than this, but I'm just gonna go around and around, like this. And if you press lightly, I’ll have to move
my fingers down a bit, this is a bigger ball, if you press lightly and keep it even you’ll
get a very, very pointed circle, see that? (S) Oh, yeah. (C) The points to it. Always go in the same direction, so I'm going
counterclockwise. I'm going around and around and try to keep
your pressure really even. And what will happen is as you keep going
and going and going, and Doug probably can't see any of this, but you can, that’s all
that matters. What will happen is, is you will get it starting
to twist. (S) Oh, yes. (C) Can you see that, Dougie? So what will happen is if you press too hard,
see how flat it's getting? So if I press really hard, I will have a really
hard time getting any kind of circle out of it. If I press lighter and keep it up here, then
it'll start getting pointier and pointier. So you can try rolling this yourself, so just
put your fingers on either side. Now you have the fingernails so you’ve got
an extension. (S) That’s true. Okay, and you, you were going counterclockwise. (C) Yeah, so if you go around and around,
now if you have it more to the center of… yeah see how it flattens right out? (S) Yeah, I flattened it out, yeah. (C) So you can always just straighten it up
again, and just keep going, and keep it probably more to the center of your thing, and you
can’t see it as well there ‘cause it's cloudy. (S) I'm probably pressing too hard huh? (C) No, see how it’s starting to come to
a Bicone? Now if you're finding it's going out of shape,
it could be that you're tilting it too much. (S) Okay, (C) So keep trying it. (S) So I need to make sure that my fingers
are against the top. (C) And then just start sliding it around
and around, there you go. Tilt this one down, I can see its flattening,
it’s coming. Now this clay, I would have expected it to
be a little bit softer ‘cause it's warm in here. (S) Uh huh. (C) But its…oh, it's starting to come so
keep going. (S) So, ok I think before I must have been
pressing too hard. (C) Yeah, so just keep going, and you can
go…if the circle’s big, you end up with sort of a wider… (S) Oh, look-ee there. (C) Yeah, and you end up with… and it starts
turning into kind of a real Bicone. (S) Yeah. (C) And the tighter the circle is that you
keep in, the more flattened out it is, keep it more flat. (S) Alright now I’ve really flattened it
out. (C) But it’s starting to work, see that? (S) Yes, yes. (C) It's starting to work. So the more you continue to… (S) So the more you continue to swirl, the
more this will swirl… (C) Right. (S) Into that swirl. (C) So in this case, I had a cane that had
quite a bit of lines and stuff in it, so it really shows when it starts twisting towards
the center. Now whatever color you have on the outside
of the lentil, it will start pulling in towards the center. So if you had… say a cane or say we had
decided to just put a nice flower cane in the center here ‘cause we thought that would
look pretty swirled. What would end up happening is, it’s kind
of like a vortex and it gets sucked to the center of the bead. (S) Okay (C) So if you want something to start
working its way in, you have to actually stick it to the outside. (S) Oh (C) And the outside starts drawing
it in, it's really cool. (S) Oh, interesting. (C) So keep going, see if you can get a little
bit more out of that, and you’ll…so keep your circles a little bit smaller otherwise
you end up with a Bicone. And then if you’re lighter touched, then
it becomes more… (S) I pushed too hard, I can tell that that's
what my problem is. (C) Oh, its working, it’s working. (S) It’s working, how cool is that? (C) So sometimes a really simple concept will
be just this far from being right. (S) Yes. (C) And you know all it is, is it’s a little
tilt, or it’s the pressure, and just getting the right feel for it.(S) Yes, oh, look at
that. (C) Oh, yeah, she's doing it, she is doing
it. Isn’t that grand? (S) This is so cool because before they always
turned out wonky as you say. And they turned out either just totally flat
because I push too hard, but this is just so cool, I’m loving it, how exciting. (C) How exciting, it is exciting, isn't it? Now if you were to put lots of different colors,
you’d get lots of different things going on. And the more contrast, those colors really
contrast quite nicely together (S) Oh, yeah they do. (C) That’s very fun. (S) I think that's so cool. (C) That is cool. (S) There's nothing neater than meeting Cindy
everybody, very cool, and her family. (C) It is very fun to meet you. And it sounds like that… you're just…
have some big ideas for what you would like to do. (S) I do, I've looked at pictures in, I mean,
you know, other people's jewelry and I think, how can I do that? How can I learn to do that? And a lot of it is things that you've done,
you know, and you've done tutorials on and other people's stuff, and I just love these
crackle beads. (C) Yeah, the Faux Raku? (S) The Faux Raku, yes, I just, I mean that
almost looks like bits of pottery, almost. (C) Yeah, and that's what it's supposed to
mimic, right, the broken Fired Raku. (S) And this one is just a round one with
that on it, it's just beautiful, I mean that's just gorgeous, I'm so excited. (C) That has been one of the really neat things
for all of us, like the whole family here, going on the road and getting to meet people
like you, and everyone… and everyone's got their own personality and their own things
that make them excited about Polymer Clay and it's just been so much fun. So I guess we better go, it's starting to
get pretty warm in here, The Dales, or The Dalles, its hot just like the desert here,
the wind blows through up through the valley. We'll have to put some pictures, Willow's
been snapping like crazy from the car, so we'll put those up too, it's a beautiful place. (S) Thank you. (C) So, it was nice meeting you today. (S) It’s nice to meet you and thank you
for inviting me to meet you. (C) No problem, well we'll see you next time,
bye for now. (S) Bye.