Create a Bottom for Your Polymer Clay Bowl

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Melina and welcome to Expert Village. Today we're going to make a polymer clay bowl. For this next step, once we've added all of canes, we're going to go ahead and add clay to this bottom area here. You don't really want to cane all the way down to the bottom because then anything that you put in the bowl is going to come out. So you want the bottom to be just a regular surface. So what we're going to do is we're going to take some color and you can take some scraps from your canes and you can mix it in. And that way the whole thing matches. And now we're going to make a round circle. And we're going to flatten it. Then you can kind of eyeball it and see if you need to make it a little bit bigger or a little bit smaller. And then we're going to attach it to our bowl. And remember, you're using the foil covered round piece at the bottom. We're using it as a mold so you don't want to stick it really to that. You want to stick it more to the canes. And you can trim it if you need to. And then what we're going to do just so it doesn't look sloppy is we're going to take a roll of clay and for this we're going to go ahead and use a contrasting color, just to make it interesting. And you want to try to keep it as even as possible. Now, we're going to make some marks. Because whenever you stick you want to make some marks and apply glue if you have it. You're going to put down your piece and you're going to mold it around the edge where the cane meets this bottom piece. And you're going to go ahead and go around it twice. This is just giving the bowl a more completed finished look."