Today's project is colourful and vibrant - makes me happy just looking at it! Using Das Air Drying Clay certainly challenged me! Our Highveld climate is dry and warm and I constantly had to spray the clay and my hands with water to keep it moist enough to work with.
Using silicone & ball tools and the most important tool of all - your hands & fingers shape the 5 cats.
As mentioned the clay dries very quickly. Keep a spray bottle filled with water close by and regularly moisten your hands and the clay. I prefer working with the small 150g packs of clay, so that I have just enough for each project. Just break off enough clay to use and keep the rest in a zip bag.
As the clay dries it turns from grey to white. The butterflies and bird was made with a mould. I prefer leaving the clay to dry in the mould, it will pop out easily when dry.
Prime a piece of MDF with white Gesso and add the screw-in hooks when dry.
Cover the hooks with clay.
Once dry the air dry clay is easily sanded.
Paint with Dina Wakley Media Heavy Body 59ml Acrylic Paint in Magenta. This paint is so pigmented and vibrant that one layer was enough.
Paint the cats with Dina Wakley Media Heavy Body paints.
Use a Posca Paint Marker to create a border.
Paint blocks with black acrylic paint.
Paint blocks with white acrylic paint.
Add all the painted pieces with Aleene's Quick Dry Tacky Glue.
