To work we will need:
1) polymer clay is translucent in orange and regular in white, orange and green;
2) needle or pin;
3) a plastic blade or a stationery knife;
4) rolling pin, something for rolling out clay;
5) white acrylic paint and brush;
6) toothpicks;
7) sandpaper (the finest);
8) gel (liquid plastic);
9) fine table salt;
10) varnish for plastic.
First, let's knead the translucent orange plastic. You can take a ready-made one from a pack, or you can add literally a drop of regular orange plastic to colorless plastic with a PP (translucent) effect and mix thoroughly. The process of kneading the material is very important - thanks to it, the plasticizer will be evenly distributed throughout the material, and the product will subsequently be more durable. Therefore, even if the plastic turns out to be soft, fresh and, at first glance, immediately suitable for work, it is necessary to “knead” it for at least 1 minute.
From the mashed piece we form a “sausage” (simply roll it with our hands on the table) and cut it into small pieces, preferably of the same size. We will give each piece the shape of a tangerine slice with our fingers, and from them we will assemble a whole “tangerine”. On average, I get 7 slices per tangerine.

I’ll note right away that it’s better to work with polymer clay with gloves, as this way there are no fingerprints left on the product, and it looks much neater. But in this case, the mandarin duck will still go through the polishing stage, so this is where the presence of prints is not so critical.
Next, using a needle or pin, we apply grooves to each slice - one vertical in the middle and several short ones at different angles:

We present a master class on making tangerines from polymer clay in a pretty simple way.

To create a tangerine from polymer clay you will need:

1 piece of orange plastic;
- 1 piece of plastic in a lighter orange shade;
- various instruments(in Fig. 1)
- 1 PC. old toothbrush;
- a real tangerine.

Tangerines made from polymer clay step by step:

Roll a ball of lighter plastic and flatten it on both sides (Figure 2). Using suitable tools, begin dividing the former ball into future slices (Figure 3). First into two parts, then into four, etc. Use a toothpick to make a hole in the center (Figure 4).

In the hole formed in the center (and it can form independently during the process of dividing into slices), insert a small piece of white clay (Fig. 5). Use the same toothpick to “structure” the tangerine (Fig. 6). Fill the depressions between the lobules with thin flagella made of white plastic (Fig. 7). Place in the oven for 15 minutes.

Roll out the orange plastic to a thickness of about 1 mm (Figure 8). Do the same with the white plastic and put them on top of each other.

Press lightly and roll (Fig. 9). Take a toothbrush and go over both sides, pressing unevenly (Fig. 10). Tear strips of peel from the “pancake”, starting with a small piece for the back of the tangerine (Fig. 11). Attach the peel to the already baked tangerine (Fig. 12)

Make a stalk out of brown-green plastic (Figure 13). Send to bake (time, temperature - see on the plastic packaging).

At the end, the tangerine needs to be varnished in two layers, the peel in one layer. Polymer clay tangerines are ready! Compare the finished result with a real mandarin duck. You can use these tangerines to make a set of earrings or a necklace.

Delightful greetings from the summer! You can make these tangerines yourself from polymer clay. What a beauty! Just like the real thing!

We will need:

• self-hardening polymer clay;
• thin wire;
• leaf mold;
• oil paints: yellow, red, green;
• rolling stacks;
• flat brush;
• PVA glue;
• a ball of polystyrene foam or similar material shaped like a tangerine;
• scissors.

First we will make the orange color of the polymer clay. Take the mass, knead it in your hands and add two colors: red and yellow. Mix thoroughly until the color is uniform. Then, directly on your palm, roll out a thin layer in a stack. Apply PVA glue to it and wrap the foam ball around it.

You have this orange ball. To give it the texture of tangerine skin, take a needle and poke holes. Then wet your hands with water and smooth the surface.

Now take some coarse sandpaper and run it over the surface, but don’t rub, just press down. This way we get a porous surface of the skin. Then we take a stack with a ball at the end and make a depression in the center on both sides symmetrically. Make rays around one indentation. The tangerine is ready.

Now let's make the leaves. Take a piece of plastic and mix green paint with yellow. Mix thoroughly. Roll into a small sausage. Also, on the palm of your hand, roll it out in a stack into a thin layer in the shape of a sheet.

Using a mold, add texture to the sheet. Roll out the edges so they are slightly wavy.

Dip a piece of thin wire into PVA glue and insert it into the central vein of the leaf. Pinch the center with your fingers so that the wire goes into the clay.

Bend the top of the sheet outward. Roll another sausage and pull out the ends as in the photo below.

Then, using nail scissors, cut one end into five petals. Turn them inside out.

Roll out each petal in a stack. Make a depression in the middle.

Drop glue into the middle of the fruit and glue the green flower with the convex side out. Then roll another sausage from the green mass, roll it into a layer and wrap a piece of wire. Smooth the joint.

Take a leaf, bend the lower end of the wire and insert it inside the stem. Then drybrush with green paint and highlight the veins. Leave to dry.

Polymer clay, or thermoplastic as it is also called, is an elastic mass convenient for creativity. It gives great freedom for use in various creative endeavors. And today we will tell you how to make tangerine beads from polymer clay.

The main property of such clay is plasticity and softness due to the plasticizers in the composition. And it hardens at a temperature of 100-130°C, after which it becomes solid and does not change shape. In addition to colored ones, there are thermoplastics with glitter, liquid, translucent, imitation stone, etc. The resulting products are durable and not afraid of water.

So, to create tangerines from polymer clay we need:

Thermoplastic is translucent in orange and regular in white, orange and green;

Pin or needle;

Plastic knife or stationery knife;

Device for rolling out clay;

Acrylic white paint and brush;

Toothpicks;

Fine-grained sandpaper;

Liquid plastic (gel);

Table salt (not coarse);

Varnish for plastic

Work order:

First, let's knead the translucent orange plastic. You can take a ready-made one from a pack, or you can add literally a drop of regular orange plastic to colorless plastic with a PP (translucent) effect and mix thoroughly. The process of kneading the material is very important - thanks to it, the plasticizer will be evenly distributed throughout the material, and the product will subsequently be more durable. Therefore, even if the plastic turns out to be soft, fresh and, at first glance, immediately suitable for work, it is necessary to “knead” it for at least 1 minute.
From the mashed piece we form a “sausage” (simply roll it with our hands on the table) and cut it into small pieces, preferably of the same size. We will give each piece the shape of a tangerine slice with our fingers, and from them we will assemble a whole “tangerine”. On average, I get 7 slices per tangerine.

I’d like to point out right away that it’s better to work with PG while wearing gloves, as this way there are no fingerprints left on the product, and it looks much neater. But in this case, the bead will still go through the polishing stage, so this is where the presence of prints is not so critical.

I plan to use tangerines as beads as a result, so I use the same needle to pierce a hole in the middle, and then send the pieces to the oven for the first baking. It is very important to observe the temperature conditions indicated on the plastic packaging. If the temperature is exceeded, the product may simply burn, releasing very harmful substances. If the temperature is insufficient, the polymerization process will not proceed as it should - the plastic may become brittle, begin to crumble or stick. But the duration of baking at the first stage can be short - about 5 minutes, because... this process will be repeated again.

After baking, cover the beads with white acrylic paint. Other types of paints may be suitable, but I haven’t experimented with them, so I can’t recommend it. It’s convenient to do this by placing a bead on a toothpick while the workpiece is still warm - this way the paint will dry faster. It is important that the paint gets into all the grooves.

We wait for it to dry, and then use fine sandpaper to remove the paint layer, leaving it only in the depressions.

Now let's prepare the “peel” for our fruits. Let's crush a piece of white and orange plastic, roll each into a layer, fold it together and roll it again so that the thickness is about half a millimeter.

We tear the resulting layer into pieces slightly larger than the size of “tangerines” and wrap them in “peel”. In this case, it is better to drop a little gel inside at the places where the “peel” is attached to the fruit. This is what it should look like:

To make it “rougher,” dip each bead in fine salt and roll it in your hands so that the grains stick to the “peel.” At this stage, I made a few more beads in the form of unpeeled tangerines; I needed them as planned. I rolled several orange balls, rolled them in salt, rolled them, made grooves with a toothpick, and pierced a hole.

Bake the beads again for 5 minutes. After baking, throw it into water, the salt dissolves in it, and traces remain on the peel. All that remains is to add green plastic “stems” to the beads. They also need to be attached to the baked one using a gel. Don't forget to pierce the hole.

Last baking, now better for 10-15 minutes. In this case, we will be sure that the beads are definitely baked. If the temperature is set correctly, then there is no danger of ruining the work, even if we leave the tangerines in the oven for a longer time. Then we varnish the beads (except for the rough “skin”). This will give them shine and also protect the paint from rubbing off.

With the help of various metal elements, tangerine beads can be assembled, for example, into this set of jewelry (here, in addition to them, leaves and flowers were used, also made of polymer clay):

This modeling master class is devoted to making thermoplastic figures. There are many courses and lessons you can take to learn this fascinating craft, but why not try to figure out the intricacies yourself? This article will definitely help you with this, and at the end we have prepared for you a selection of video lessons on modeling for beginners using polymer clay. We hope they are educational!

We make tangerines from polymer clay with our own hands quickly and easily

For this master class we will need polymer clay of the required shades, a thick needle, a stationery knife, a rolling pin, artistic white acrylic paint, toothpicks, fine sandpaper, liquid plastic, fine sea salt and varnish.

We prepare the shape and the desired texture

First you need to thoroughly knead the orange polymer clay for about one minute. This is necessary so that all its components are evenly distributed in the material and during baking it is completely polymerized. From plastic that has already become soft, we form a sausage, which needs to be cut into small identical pieces and we mold our tangerine slices from them. For one fruit we need about 7 slices.

We draw grooves on each slice with a needle, just like on a real tangerine. Once you have formed the tangerine and worked out the structure, they need to be pierced with a needle in the middle (if you will use them as beads) and put in the oven for 5 minutes at the temperature indicated on the polymer clay packaging.

Add realism with paint

Having secured the still warm tangerine on a toothpick, we paint it with white acrylic paint, making sure that all grooves are filled with paint. Once the paint has dried, you should take sandpaper and carefully polish the figures so that the white paint remains only where the grooves are.

Making the peel and stalks

It is necessary to knead the white and orange clay, roll out a thin layer from each, put it on top of each other and roll it out again. As a result, you should get a peel about half a millimeter thick.

We wrap the resulting tangerine peel, attaching them with plastic gel.

Then roll each tangerine in salt to create an orange peel effect. You can also make some unpeeled tangerines by simply rolling orange plastic into balls and rolling them in salt.

Then we sculpt stalks from green polymer clay and attach them to the fruits using gel. We also pierce a hole in the stalk and bake for 10-15 minutes. Our tangerines are almost ready, all that remains is to open the segments with varnish, leaving the rough peel intact.

We assemble the finished product

Of course, you can leave tangerines as a beautiful original decoration on a shelf, but they can be used in many types of jewelry, both as costume jewelry and as a decorative element.

Master class on creating a playful cat with plastic sausages

Now let's try to sculpt a wonderful figurine of a cat that will delight you and your loved ones with its positivity. In order to sculpt such a cat, we will need polymer clay, dry pastel, a set of stacks and fishing line, which we use for the whiskers. This task is a little more difficult than the tangerines from the first part, however, why not test your strength and try. You will probably be able to make it even cuter!

First, we thoroughly knead the plastic and form two balls of different sizes, then we fasten them together with a toothpick, and give the desired shape to the body of the figure. Using modeling stacks, we make indentations for the eyes and draw the mouth.

Using white and rose fondant we make eyes, a muzzle and a nose. We use a needle to make holes for the whiskers - after baking, the prepared fishing line will need to be glued into these holes with glue. We sculpt ears from gray and white plastic.

The next step is to mold his paws and tail. And we will connect all parts of the body together, and carefully smooth out all the unevenness.

We cut out the whiskers from the fishing line and proceed to the small chicken sitting on the cat’s head. To do this, take yellow (for the chick) and red (for the beak) plastic and sculpt a tiny bird.

Now we form sausages from a thin sausage. We combine all the elements together and put them in the oven “until ready”, as indicated on the polymer clay packaging. After baking the cat, you will need to decorate it a little with dry pastels, glue the whiskers and varnish it.

A selection of videos for beginners

Try, experiment and good luck to you!