r/airdryclay

Hace mucho tiempo que no trabajo con Air dry clay, pero me he animado a intentar hacer una figura de la Virgen María como la que aparece en la última imagen. Es bastante alta, de unos 40 cm aproximadamente.

Primero he hecho una estructura interna a partir de un listón de madera unido a un plato de madera. Después he envuelto el listón con papel de periódicos y una mezcla de cola.

Tengo ganas de comenzar a cubrir todo con la Air dry clay pero no sé si debería seguir dándole forma con pasta de papel. Le pregunté a la IA y me contestó que no debo poner una capa de más de 2 cm de Air dry clay o de lo contrario podría agrietarse una vez seca.

¿Qué puedo hacer?

Sculptured Clay......

I made it from that soft synthetic clay (idk the name ) I'd definitely love to make it out of thicker clay for sure! First attempt at this so far.

Hi! So as the title says, I've been working on this book ring, then I left it to dry for a few days.

Today I checked if the piece was finally dry and I found it like this lol.

There's spots of that black mold pretty much everywhere.

This ring was meant to be a gift, so I kinda don't want to throw it away and redo it.

Is there a safe way to get rid of the mold?

My next step (if the piece didn't have mold) would be to fill the cracks and paint with primer.

Today I maded a beautiful cat with a little clay because I was bored and saw a little clay....i hope u all like it :D

for context, I don’t use clay much and I went to a general art event last year where air dry clay was supplied. I made a bunch of random figures, including this one that was vaguely inspired by Wayne from Hylics. I left the figures in a cardboard box without a lid in my room (I know, not a good idea) and I’d been meaning to coat them with some sort of cover/seal but I didn’t have much time for that. earlier this year, the head and right arm of this figure broke off. so more recently I went through my old, unused craft items and decided to try water-based acrylic paint (9-10 years old) to cover up the pieces.

the paint actually helped repairing the figures the best I could—I used a red layer for the first coat on this moon man. I had some trouble using the paint to glue the arm back to the shoulder but I eventually used a bent paper clip to support the arm while the paint dried. once that coat dried, I applied the second coat of yellow on top to better seal it all.

cut to me a few weeks later checking on my clay again, and when I look underneath the moon man, it appears as though his arm’s been severed…??? like it looks sinewy, too. this definitely happened because of the paint and the arm being supported wrong—it must have slowly moved while still drying. but what a surprise that it kinda looked like gore. the arm is still attached but I worry about how stable it is.

I do like how it looks but it wasn’t my intention for the final design 😂 if I don’t currently have access to any air dry clay or slurry to fill in the hole, what else could I use? should I just try to fill it with more of the acrylic paint? I’m not opposed to using materials that require well-ventilated spaces (such as resin, from what I’ve heard) it’s just that setting up for that is a hassle here

I need to seal with a gloss after the paint dries

Background fish, from SpongeBob