While I was making the leaf veiners, I found a corn cob in the fridge that still had it’s leaves. Now from past experience I know that the corn leaves are very useful for texturing so I decided to make a texture sheet from it. I can see all sorts of uses for it. Basket weave, leaves etc. etc.
Read the photos from left to right please.
What you’ll need:
Pasta machine, tissue blade, tile, scrap clay and a corn leaf.
What to do:
Condition some scrap clay and put through the pasta machine on the 4th thickest setting. Make sure there are no air bubbles in the surface.
Gently unroll the corn leaf – they tend to curl – and wipe it with a clean cloth to make sure there is no residual grit or dirt. Stretch it slightly and place it on the clay sheet.
Position the sheet of clay and corn leaf between the rollers of the pasta machine at the same setting you used for your sheet of clay. Carefully roll it through keeping the corn leaf stretched and even. See how mine creased slightly? Carefully separate the leaf from the sheet of clay.
Trim the edges of the texture sheet using a tissue blade, place on a tile and cure according to the manufacturers instructions.
Nifty don’t you think?
Great idea, Karin – and so simple!
I’m a great believer in simple!
Glad you like it Melissa.