Crayola Air Dry Clay Intro #3: Tips & Review
In this video, I discuss some opinions and tips about how to work with Crayola Air Dry clay during remote learning. I point out some similarities between this craft clay and stoneware. It is not a functional ware clay. It is not food safe, nor does it ever fully cure. At best it goes to bone dry. It is sufficient to learn how to make basic sculptures, but I would not recommend it for anything permanent. It is extremely brittle at the bone dry stage but can be rehydrated by adding water to reconstitute it to a malleable consistency.
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If you are ready to move on to creating a small sculpture be sure to check out this video:
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Water Proof info:
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Before you begin it is important to be aware of the different stages of clay. Learning and applying these skills will assure that your air-dry clay sculptures will not fall apart or crack as they begin the drying process.
STAGES OF CLAY:
1. Malleable (fresh out of the bucket)
2. Leather Hard: as the clay is exposed to air, it begins to lose its moisture. As it moves towards leather hard it becomes stiffer and more difficult to manipulate. It can however be joined (using score, slip, weld techniques) and carved.
While you are working on your projects it is essential to keep your pieces covered in plastic wrap or a ziplock baggie so they do not dry out. If your project dries out before you are finished you will most likely have to start over.
3. Slip is essentially liquid clay. Water or slip can be used to join pieces together. If slip or water are not used to join pieces they will crack and snap off.
4. Bone Dry: the clay has lost ALL of its moisture and can no longer be manipulated.
When you are 100% finished with your projects, you can let them go bone dry. Your pieces should be completely bone dry before applying paint to the surface.
5. Air Dry vs. KILN-fired clay (stoneware):
a. Air Dry Clay does not cure. It is not waterproof and cannot be used for functional ware. If exposed to water it will dissolve. It can be painted and sprayed with water-resistant Marine Varnish or Flex Seal (available on amazon, Home Depot or Lowes)
b. Stoneware does cure once it is fired at the bone-dry stage in a 2,000-degree ceramic Kiln. Firing clay makes it functional or usable. If it is not fired it is not functional. This is called a BISQUE firing. It can then be glazed and fired again.
TECHNIQUES:
a. Pinch: use your fingers to pinch the clay as in making a pinch pot.
b. Coil: rolling the clay in long round pieces such as a piece of spaghetti or sausage.
c. Reinforcement Coil: thin coils are added around joined pieces
d. Slab: a rolling pin or slab roller is used to make flat clay such as a cookie or a leaf.
e. Score and Slip: scoring refers to scratching the surface and slip refers to the water or liquid clay that is used to join pieces.
f. Welding: using a sculpting tool to carefully blend all joined areas.
g. Blending: using a sculpting tool and a damp paintbrush or small sponge to smooth out surfaces.
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