A little before I found clay online – and watched my skills really improve when I was able to see what others were doing – a very talented artist named Mike Buesseler released videos about metallic effects and mica clays and the effects you could achieve with them. One of those videos has now been released to the polymer clay public by the original producer and the hard work of some Mike B fans.
You can watch or download the video here. Here’s a link for one of Mike B’s tutorials online: a narrow Skinner blend, particularly useful for making projects requiring a narrow width but still having a blend. In the same area of Polymer Clay Central there’s another Mike B walk through, on making a leaf image with metallic powders and masking. If you poke around in his corner of PCC you’ll find lots of odds and ends of his.