original ShARK
for the Atlas 150
new White ShARK
for the Amaco,
Makins, and Atlas 180
For sheeting clay, mixing colours, or creating perfect full-spectrum blends at any width, bring a ShARK into your studio and watch your work evolve . . .
The walls of your pasta machine confine your clay to a clean-edged rectangle at full width.
But what if you wanted something just as plumb, but not as wide? Use your ShARK to set a new wall wherever you want it, for repeatable rectangles at any width.
Here are some of the possibilities...
Build to Scale
Use your ShARK to create narrower sheets, wraps, layers, and other components for building canes at a smaller scale. Make smaller slabs, mini mokume, and ATCs at actual size. Or set a consistent width to sheet and store your swatches and scraps.
Separate Your Whites
Use your ShARK to divide your pasta machine into sections, one for clean white sheets, and the rest for everything else (so your white clay doesn't end up looking like everything else).
Mini Skinners
It's the classic Blend and we love it, but do we always want it that wide? Use your ShARK to get all that magic melding colour, but in a skinnier Skinner.
What if you start with more than just a pair of triangles? What if you have not just triangles, but wedges, arcs, and bands, to mix, stack, flip, and flop into one single blended veneer? What if you don't want blends at all, just bold bands of hues and values that step from one colour to another in a whole new palette? Use your ShARK to go beyond...
This ShARK is making Waves.
It's also making Wings, Tubes, Bands, Bars, Stripes, Staircases, and more. More than any other application, the technique that really puts the ShARK to the test is not just the Skinner Blend, but the whole new realm of mixed and merging colour possibilities that Dan has defined Beyond the Blend.
That's why The Cutting Edge Sh.A.R.K. Kit comes with a full-colour Blend Basics Tutorial and a special Blend Template to introduce you to the world of Complex Blending. Based on Judith Skinner's groundbreaking fold-and-feed approach to blending two distinct colours into a seamless spectrum of both, Dan has defined a new language for mixing colours and creating blended veneers.
Beyond the Blend
Try The Five-Step Reverse Blended Staircase, and see the illusion of overlapping colour and depth revealed in minutes. Use other Beyond the Blend Complex Blend Templates to cut your clay sheets into interlocking components. No matter what blend, no matter how wide, the ShARK keeps everything in line, yielding perfect results every time.
The Incredible Shrinking Sheet
What if you make a perfect blend, but it's too wide for your next project? Use your ShARK to gradually but consistently reduce the width without shortening the blend spectrum. Or, if your sheet’s a little short, reverse the process and use your ShARK to broaden the blend.
Set. Sheet. Tilt. Slide. Repeat.
The Cutting Edge Sh.A.R.K. is all you need to quickly and easily improve the way you sheet, mix, and blend polymer clay, to refine your results at any width, and truly go beyond. So go ahead, jump in, make a big splash. We guarantee your work will get better... and there's nothing scary about that.
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