Showing posts with label Air dry clay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Air dry clay. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Altered, recycled bottle


As we said in the previous post, air dry clay offers inumerous possibilities. In our every day lives, we always have things that there is no need to discard and can be upcycled into decorative or usable items. I have had a glass bottle thoroughly cleaned and labels removed. I decided to alter it using air dry clay. 

It was a project that took me not that much of a time. I wanted to give the impression of rust to the bottle, and I used blue, brown, copper and black acrylic colours. Of course, layers of varnish to seal the colours and the clay.

I used silicon molds, and molds I have created my self, by using household items pressed into clay, then clay dried and was varnished. It is not as easy to remove clay from a clay mold as it is when you use a silicon mold, though it works. And there I had even more options to decorate my bottłe.

I had also dried flowers from my flower garden, and I had created some ribbon flowers, out of spare ribbon and thread attached to dried branches. A really storytelling bottle was the result. Enjoy!

With lots of love,

Sunday, May 21, 2023

Handmade, 100% waterproof vase out of carton and air dry clay, with constructing advice and a waterproofing formula.


Air dry clay is a wonderful material. You can use it to create or embellish whatever crafts you are using your creativity into. Air dry clay gets no bake. That means that there is a challenge to make your objects waterproof at the final result. Of course varnish and acrylics do add to this, however, it could be a disaster to create an air dry clay vase only with acrylics and varnish. So I came up with a formula, using a mixture of pva glue and and a waterproofing material for stones and ceramics I bought from a store with building materials, which i thoroughly incorporated into the clay, being careful to keep the suggested proportions as for the water used to dilute. I made two different clay mixtures with two different consistencies: A more watery and a stiffer one, adding accordingly more of the liquid mixture for a clay mixture that could spread on the armatures of the vase. Next I created the armature out of recycled carton and recycled paper as well as pva glue.

I let it thoroughly dry out. 

At this point, it was a sturdy construction out of carton, I could start to apply my clay mixture at. I picked out some clay molds and started creating embellishments that would have to dry as well. Applied the watery mixtured in layers, letting it to set before each new layer. When I was happy with the layering, I added the embellishments at the vase, and once more I let it dry out and set.

Before I started colouring and shadowing, I applied some more coats of the waterproofing material itself. And then it was time to colour. I wanted to keep the finished result neutral as for the colours, because the flowers are beautifully colourful and a neutral vase would just add to the beauty of flower bouquets. I used acrylic colours, simple and metallic, and aging patinas for an antiquing result. 

A result that is 100% waterproof and truly embellishing. It was a delight when I finally added the flowers. 

Enjoy!

With lots of love,


Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Upcycling with acrylics and clay


In our every day lives we constantly have items around the house, that are too useful to be thrown away, in need of decorative value however. Recycling and upcycling plays a significant role in arts and crafts. It is a chance for every crafter to reduce costs and effort, and what is more important, to be in thought and in a caring deed for the enviroment of our planet and the own person's ecological footprint. The results can be amazing. Each artist can use the art materials of preferrence to result in either usable or decorative items practicing the creative imagination. In this post, I am sharing a hint to what we are going to be seeing in the next posts of this blog, apart from paintings and step by step tutorials. In the photo shared there are containers of every day items transformed with the help of air dry clay and acrylics, an altered bottle covered with air dry clay, and a waterproof vase made out of carton and the same art materials again, air dry clay and acrylics, made with a homade formula enhanced with building materials, easy to find, cheap and absolutely effective. I am going to be sharing this art recipe with you, among with pictures from scratch to finish. 

Stay tuned!

Love to see you around! 

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Mixed media box, and mixed media painting. Acrylics, airdryclay, and other art mediums

After having walked and enjoyed nature sceneries and gathered some flowers, around a village, a painted carton box I created, with acrylics and air dry clay, as well as a homade mixture of plaster, glue, and white acrylic color. Along with the carton box, for storing dried flowers and other nature elements I gather when I go for a walk, a mixed media painting I created as well.

It was also a lovely day in the art studio!

Enjoy,

With love,




Mixed media canvas, Bird with ceramic flowers

I wanted to create a palette backround on cardboard, at this art project, and also wanted to find out, how well a canvas surface...