Be Friend with Your Clay

Air Dry Clay pieces after rain

Be friend with your Air Dry Clay.

Here it goes some tips:

- make sure to have your hands moisturized before start playing with clay

- play with small amounts

- at first, practice smashing just clay

- add some acrylic colors (it’s going to be a little messy in the hands but the result is great)

- play until you get an uniform dough (or not, it’s up to the creator)

- start making shapes

- try to make thin walls in your piece to avoid it to be heavy

- use paper or other material to help maintain structure and form if needed

- if you have cracks you have some options:

• have some kind of texture to stamp without pressing too much

• leave the way it is and just finish with a good sealant or paint

• Personally don’t mind cracks, but to get it fixed and/or smoother, use a soft brush with small amount of water on the cracked surface

- don’t over think. Make a shape and glue a piece of paper on top - Mod Podge to seal or other kind of varnish.

There are a lot of beautiful pieces that looks like nothing, but then you look better and you will see something else.

Love to see pieces created after a while.... we get other perspective.

That’s why we are here. To experiment and learn together.