Sizzling Rice Cane in Polymer Clay

I spent some time working on a CraftEdu class by Donna Kato called "Sizzling Rice Cane". Neat name! It was lots of fun to make this cane, it took some precision to get it right, then I kind of over-reduced it at the end. Still, I wanted to share my photos because I see this as a very verstatile cane and can imagine it taking on many personalities.

The first part, getting the "rice" to the right shape and then getting it into the pretty-much-exact center of a square of black clay, was the hardest. Definitely a time to go slow and make sure everything is just right before proceeding. (Click on photo to enlarge).

Then I added some more black.. this step decides how close together the rice kernels will be in the finished cane.

After combining eight kernels, the cane looked like this:

And finally, the cane with 16 kernels is below. As I said, I over-reduced it a bit and that made it go slightly wonky, but for a first try I'm pretty happy with it.

I will be sure to share whatever I use this cane for here at a later date. My thanks to Donna Kato for sharing this techinique with the polymer clay community. If you would like to make this cane yourself, you can go to CraftEdu.com by clicking on this link for the Sizzling Rice Cane. Have fun, and be sure to share your results!