How to create miniature soup from polymer clay

This simple project by Sadie Brown will prove to be the perfect finishing touch for any winter kitchen table.

You will need:

• Polymer clay in orange, cream, Bordeaux, brown, beige, dark green and apple green
• Pastels in brown, red,red ochre and dark orange cadmium
• Sculpey Bake & Bond (or similar)
• Gloss varnish
• 1/12th scale ceramic soup bowl
• Needle
• Small brush
•  Craft knife
   

1 Take orange and cream clay for carrot and parsnip canes, cutting into 1mm squares.

2 Mix beige clay with cream clay to create cooked white beans. For the kidney beans mix Bordeaux with a little brown. Shape into individual beans measuring about 2mm in length.

3 Take a deep green clay and mix in a little lighter shade here and there with some apple green clay which has been mixed with a small amount of brown. Use a needle to flake the clay into small pieces of cabbage/kale. Bake all the separate ingredients.

4 Use red, red ochre, dark orange cadmium and brown grated pastel mixed with Bake & Bond to create a realistic colour for the soup. Add the mixture to a 1/12th scale ceramic bowl. If you want to be sure of the colour, bake a test sample of the mixture.

5 Add all the different ingredients to the bowl, scattering unevenly across the top. Place in the oven and bake. Once cooled, coat with gloss varnish.