Ms. Donna you are amazing! Thank you for showing us how you create your beautiful body of work. I enjoy your teaching methods and all your little things that make you , you! The humming or the bbops and oopsies. All of it make you even more amazing and cool in my book. Certainly makes me feel better about all my eccentricities and stuff. Thank you!!🎉❤❤❤

It really doesn't bother me when you go off camera. I like that you are learning a new skill at the same time as I am learning. I love that you can make something that looks complex and beautiful out of a simple cane. Thank you Donna

I am so happy that you decided to join the tutorial world. I have many of your books but watching you do a project is so much better. You are a great teacher because you have an idea in your head of what you want to do and if something goes off-script you make the best of it which really helps beginners like myself that have tried to follow the instructions but something went wrong somewhere and frustration sets in and I feel like the whole project is worthless. Watching you, you just go with the flow and say well let's see what happens really helps. Thank you so much for your help with doing the videos. You have done amazing things with Polymer Clay. I can only hope to be a better clayer with your support and instructions. Keep up the good work

You really weren't that far off screen. I already see that the logistics part is improving for you. It is a huge learning curve, and you are doing marvelously! So please give yourself grace. We are here, learning from a Master, who is kind enough to share her skills and talents with us! That is amazing to me! Thank you for being willing to DO this!!

I love your tutorials and I love how you teach! Continue doing you!!!!!

I'm so glad you are doing youtube videos for us, Donna. The deft precision of your movements as you handle the clay signals your experience and expertise. And your explanation for how and why the cane develops the patterns is so clear. Thanks.

It's a real treat to see you work on screen. Your work is beautiful, & I started my polymer journey with your books & learned such a lot. You have such a flair for colour & shape..thank you ..

😍😍😍 Immensely grateful for your wonderful tutorials. Thank you Donna.

Donna you are way TOO hard on yourself ! You knowledge and skill is AMAZING. We should be honoured that you take the time to share your knowledge with us. I look forward to learning more from you 💞

Donna! I’m so glad that you’re doing tutorials here! Your knowledge and talent is amazing! I’ve always been fascinated with canes, and now I’m learning how with your help. I’m also a KZfaqr and I can’t figure out how to do many things to enhance my videos. I’ve almost gotten to 500 subscribers! Now I’m more excited to make more of my own canes instead of buying them. Huge thanks! 😊

Loving this one💖. Thanks Donna. Always a pleasure

Thank you for your awesome tutorials, I love your work. You do a great job explaining things I enjoy watching 😊

I saw someone working under their camera and they marked little X’s in the four corners as a guide to not drift beyond them or they would be off camera. Simply look through your camera and mark your work field . Hope that helps! I made this cane and it came out awesome! Thanks Donna!

Do not change a thing. Your tutorials are perfect the way they are!

Keep doing you! I love your style of talking to us while you create, it’s like being in the room with you! This black and white series is awesome! Can’t wait to see what we do with our canes in the end!!!

Thank you Donna. I like that you explained the components and the comparison. I have a hard time “seeing” parts of a cane. I love your style of instruction.

Wonderful. I actually like your style of teaching. It lets us realize that things change and nothing is totally within our control. I am just so glad you started teaching I am learning so much from you.

I LOVE YOU, DONNA! I've worked with polymer clay in the past (I'm currently working with precious metal clay) but I've been looking for ways to incorporate affordable color into my work and I think polymer clay is the way to go. I've learned so much from your videos! You're an awesome teacher and a gifted artist. Joined your Members Only classroom and it's worth every penny!

I admire your work so much. Thank you for busting through the you tube challenges

Enjoying your lessons. The way you demo your design really makes it easier to follow the steps.

Hi Donna. I'm super new to cane making and I just wanted to say hi from little old New Zealand. I am so happy to have found you. You are so awesome! I just love your enthusiasm and your passion for your craft. And you are so knowledgeable and I enjoy your teaching methods and the way you take us on these creative adventures. Thankyou so much. I'm super inspired now! Cheers Mandy

How fascinating that the one small twist can make such a intricate look. Tfs it’s beautiful.

Your new tutorials are fantastic! As far as working off camera, if you widen the field-of-vision and zoom out the lens on your camera to more of a wide angle, it will give you more room to work with. The wider angle will show more work surface. You can also raise the camera up, if you are using a tripod to show more work surface. Don't know if that helps you but wanted to share since I learn so much from you!

Thank you for sharing! I’m learning so much and getting so many ideas from your videos. Just watching your hands move as you handle the clay is so helpful for me as I am beginning.

I love the Blackout clay!

I do like the squared tile cane (on your left) it reminds me a little bit of Ginkgo leaves! Thank you Donna, I enjoy your tutorials and all the happy noises, it's like being with you in person - almost! 😉😘

So beautiful what you do with a simple cane! It’s mesmerizing! I never have enough words to describe it!! Thank you always 😊

Very helpful! Look forward do more! Thank you!

i have no problem when you drift off screen i am still learning skills from you , you are very clear with instruction but also explain that you could change your direction of where you are which encourages us to try different styles thanks donna for sharing your expertise with us have a great week!

Thank you for sharing and I love to hear when you talk thru your process.

You are simply amazing! I admire you so much for trying something new. Your teaching style is lovely. Love the canes and am keen to try them.

You will always be excused for working off camera, especially when you show us such great canes to make. Thanks for sharing

Love the black and white series , awesome canes , you have helped me improve with all these wonderful tips, so glad you have your own channel now ! Look forward to future tutorials! Good luck with learning KZfaq , I'm am one of those challenged with video recording and pasting links and the rest of those technological wonders.

Leslie is such a sweetheart.

I think you’re doing fantastic, thoroughly enjoying all your videos! I love your playful personality that truly shines through in your videos, makes them so entertaining to watch.

Really love your style and I appreciate your changes when you make tutorials. It shows people you can put your own twist on a tutorial, I try to always do that. That's wonderful about clay .. you can! I dont care if you go off camera, stop being hard on yourself! Your doing an amazing service to us

Thanks for another great tutorial.

Thank you Donna,I'm glad you are teaching all of us

Hope your not in the bathroom today!! You made me smile….it was a good example of how to do your presentations.. I can’t use the pc. This is an I pad which I manage. Lovely cane easy to follow. Happy new year to you and yours.Hugs from England.🥰🥰💕🐶🐶🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍

i enjoyed your honesty, keepin it real! lol!

Thank you so much Donna, your video are perfect like your fabulous experience. I have time to realy learn because it is not to fast. ❤

Hi Donna, just found your channel and love it. Had lost my mojo since Xmas but am claying at last. Thank you so much for your videos, so inspiring. Am tackling canes for the first time, but just love the playing. Keep them coming. Thank you.

Simple yet stunning. As always another great tutorial. Off to share on my little guilds page where they’re all newbies so this is perfect for them xxxx

I am so glad you decided to get on KZfaq and even more glad I found your channel. I remember watching you on The Carol Duvall Show and becoming fascinated by polymer clay. I think I bought one of your books. After all these years I am finally going to get some clay and start. My question is since I don't have any clay, how much of the black and white would I use to make the cane? I love black and white so very excited for this series. Also wanted to tell you that my husband was listening to you as you were making the canes. He has to listen to a lot of the people I have been watching and he said I like her the best! Your teaching style is wonderful. You are taking us through your thought process. I have watched countless videos on polymer clay that the person is just chopping up clay and adding paint. I believe I have watched almost every single one of your videos and am learning technique and the why you do something. So thank you so much.

Well this is so involved but so appreciate your videos on this so indepth just starting one day I will do this when I am a little bit more advanced.xx

No wonder you like it. It is beautiful. I like the square one better

Wow, you are amazing woman, even with limited youtube skills...... Keep learning you are doing great!!!

I love 😍 your work & your videos, thank you 🌷 I always learn so much.

Awesomeness!!!!!

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Bravissima!!

Your content is wonderful and informative do it in your own style we love it 😂

Thank you so much Ms. Donna for sharing your time and master clay expertise with us 🙏😍!! I love anything black & white and am looking forward to what you will show us next 😃well actually I love everything you teach us .. lol !!!! PS: the ring you are wearing is so beautiful, do you have a tutorial for it ?

The KZfaqs brought me down a rabbit hole. lol I do a lot of art and I've never seen this before. These are beautiful. Can you please tell me what it is and what you do with it? Thank you.

Also- I’m making this one as I am making my son done walk pieces and the S will be the center!

I would really like to know how much clay to start with. I can adjust but to see what you have can you share how much you started with. That is something no one does when they start.

I don’t really see you go off screen, doesn’t affect the teaching at all! I do have a question! I’ve been making a lot of your black and white series canes, you seem to keep your white so pristine! How!?? And that’s a serious questions- so I have made sure to clean all equipment between black and white, I try to get all the black off of my hands, but it never fails, as I reduce my white turns gray! I can see it when I put the pieces together - ugh! I wear my shirts light, I just can’t imagine how yours are always still pure white as you reduce . Tips! ? Maybe you can do us a short” this is what I do” video?

Might I suggest you mark off your work surface with blue painter’s tape just outside the camera’s view and that will help remind you that you’re off screen. (But honestly it didn’t bother me, I didn’t miss anything critical :)

Here's the link to the video you suggested (paradox cane) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zq2XgMRkmbnPqmg.html