Monday, January 30, 2012

I 'heart' cork clay!

I've had this packet of cork clay floating around my desk for months, whispering to me, calling me to pick it up and play with it....which I have partly indulged, unconsciously picking it up, still in its sealed packet I squash it and poke at it, as I daydream, think and get my creative cogs turning!


Today with a ton of work related things that require my attention, calling for a whole different set of cogs going...I decided today is the perfect day to liberate that cork clay from its plastic confine. So I do, and as I play and roll, I realise I have no idea of exactly what I'm going to make with this this pliable ball. So as if trying to occupy myself in a dead boring meeting, my mind wanders into no mans land and my hands are left to create unconscious doodles of the 3D kind.


......and its hearts ... 9 hearts of all shapes, sizes and personalities! Then excited to play, a flash of sensibility hits me and I decide to read the instructions....aaaarrrrrrrr! I have to let it completely dry before I can cover it in silver clay. Its 30 something degrees out side and I figure it wont take long but just like watching paint dry it takes for ever and I figure its best to let it dry over night to be safe.


I set about dressing the cork clay in a variety of soon be shinny silver costumes and again I'm hit by some sort of sense of reason and its back to Mr Google...Do I need a vent hole to accommodate the cork clay burn out? Oh, yes indeed! So, my fully dressed babes need to get a few items of clothing off, we need to see some skin!




4 comments:

  1. wow this looks so interesting Rachel. Never heard of cork clay. Do you use it as an armature for things perhaps or just by itself. I kinda like the colour of the bottom ones. How big are these gorgeous hearts?

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    1. Deb, yes it burns away when fired to leave a hollow form at the end! The colour you like is the cork clay! They vary in size, will show you sometime soon!

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  2. Rachel, it's fun to play with but lets off terrible fumes as it burns out. Don't ever fire it indoors, hmm? Nasty.

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    1. Kate, my kiln is set up in the shed with a large open garage door and nothing but junk and mice..I vented it for the first stage of firing then went back and put plug back in after it had finished first stage and clay was burnt out. Do you think its just stinkin nasty or super toxic nasty?

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