Learn To Sculpt
1:12 Green Apples
with Italian Artist
Barbara Dezza

Close-up images of materials needed
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1. Mixed equal parts of white and translucent clay.
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2. This is the color that you want!
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3. Now mix the rest of the white and the translucent clay with the green and the yellow clay. Proportions are approximately 3:2:1:1/2 (Yellow, Green, Translucent, White).
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4. After combining, your color mixture should be spring green in color. This will be use this for the peel of the apple.
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5. Next you will make the pulp of the apple. Take a small portion of the spring green clay you just made and combine it with the white from Step 1. Reference the image for proportions.
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6. Check the color in the image, this is the color consistency you want for the apple pulp.
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7. Here you can compare the greenish clay that you've just combined with the white made in the preceding steps.
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8. Make a little cylinder shape.
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9. Take the apple skin green clay you've mixed. Using the roller, stretch the clay to make a thin layer of the green clay. If the clay sticks to the roller, dust lightly with the talcum powder.
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10. Here is the thin roll.
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11. Place the off white/beige clay cylinder onto the green strip of clay.
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12. Wrap the green clay around the lighter colored clay; cut off any excess, making the inside clay fit to the edges as shown
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13. Begin working the clay from the center, working your way to the edges.
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14. Lengthen the cane by continuing to roll from the center to the edges. Roll until you have an approximate diameter of around half centimeter (approx. 0.20 inch).
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15. Once you have the diameter you want, cut the cane in long segments around 6-7 millimeters (approx 0.27 inch).
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16. Take one of the cut segments. With your fingers, softly close the two ends of the segment. Form a little ball to form the apple shape. Do not mush the clay in the center. Now slightly lengthened, making the base more narrow (spherical shaped).
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17. Use your Wilton Industries© flower tool to indent the top part of the apple (hollow).
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18. Using your toothpick, make a small indentation hole and score slightly around the hole.
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19. Take a small piece of terracotta polymer clay and roll into an oblong shape to use for the stem. Cut a 1/8 inch length for the stems. Set aside.
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20. With your toothpick, slightly score around the bottom hole of the apple and insert a tiny piece of the terracotta clay into the hole.
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21. How it should look after you've added the terracotta clay.
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22. Take a piece of the terracotta stem and insert into the top hole you made with the Wilton Industries� tool.
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23. Voil� the completed apples!!
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24. MAKE APPLE HALVES
Using your razor blade, cut one apple in half. Remove the core.
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25. Using the point of the toothpick, score a light dividing line straight down the middle of the apple half.
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26. Again using your toothpick, make two points in the center of the apple where the seeds would naturally be.
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27. Put a small piece of clay (Terracotta) in the hollows simulating the seeds.
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28. MAKE APPLE SLICES
Cut the apple in four equal parts. Always watch out that the clay is hard before you attempt to cut.
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29. CORE AN APPLE
Select a solid apple.
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30. With your blade, begin cutting very thin slices of the apple until you have cored out the entire apple, as shown.
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31. Using your toothpick, score a small indentation to simulate a seed area. Take a small piece of Terracotta clay and insert into the area. This is the seed of the apple.
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32. VOILA�!!! Cored apples.
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33. WHOLE APPLE WITH CUT PEEL
Take a whole apple and with the point of the blade, you can peel from the top just like you would do with a real apple.
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Italian Translation.