This
week as we continue our discussion of working with polymer clay to
make our doll foods I wanted to go a bit more in-depth on how to
color your liquid polymer clay. I am working with the same 2 brands I
showed you last week in our introduction to liquid clays.
The
two easiest ways to color this product in my opinion is to use either
chalk or tube oil paint.
For
using chalk just scrape off a bit of the chalk from the stick just
like if you were going to use it to color your clay. Then mix it into
the liquid clay with something like a toothpick. This will give a
slightly cloudy color and you can often see the granules of the
chalk. This can be a good or bad thing depending on what you are
making. For some applications it is just what you do want.
To
use tube oil paint just start with the smallest amount you can and
just use the amount it takes to color the product. You don't want too
much, a little goes a very long way. The paint gives a richer more
solid color and is the baked liquid clay retains more of its
translucency.
I
do want to take a moment to say I know there are a lot of tutorials
out there where acrylic paint is used to color liquid polymer clay.
This is something the manufacturers do not recommend. Acrylic paint
is water based and it can cause big problems when you bake the clay.
I have heard of instances where items exploded when those water
vapors expanded in the oven. So please stay away from the acrylic
paint. The oil paints I use are the cheapest ones from the craft
store so the investment in them was less than $5.
The
last thing I covered in this video was how to mix the liquid clay
with a dry crumbly clay to revive it. As you saw it is really easy to
do. This is also the same way you make frosting (or other spreadable
food items) from polymer clay.
Lastly
I hope the difference in the surface shine was apparent on the video.
There is a world of difference in how these two brands look when
baked. That is one of the reasons I keep both brands on hand.
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