Hi Friends,

 

I would love to say I saved the best for last, but it’s hard to top my vintage luggage chair. Todays tutorial is awesome and defiantly a close second. I found this one at A beautiful mess and one I had to try it. I remember playing with clay in high school. I was pretty sad they didn’t have any clay modeling classes at my Art School, so it’s been over 10 years since I’ve got down in dirty with a little clay, that's 10 years too long. This project rekindled my love, I foresee lots of clay projects in my near future.

 

Lets jump in.

I’ve been keeping my posts short and sweet. I hope you guys like it, no time to lolly-gag on this site. lol

 

Cost: $10 - $20

Time: 1 hour

 

Colorful clay - $1.50 each pick out 3-4 colors, make sure to grab while

Small oven safe bowl - $1.49 each I purchased 4 small ceramic bowls at target 

Gold liquid gilding - $5.99

Glaze - $5.99 optional

 

Pick your colors, about 3-4 colors should do the trick

 

Pull off a chunk of clay, you don’t need a lot

 

Use palms to create snakes out of each color

 

Combine smaller snakes and create one big colorful snake

 

Twist Twist Twist Twist

I took pictures of my first try at this project, in the video you can see I twisted a lot more than I did in these picture

Twisting creates colorful swirls

 

Once twist is twice its length fold snake in half and twist the two ends together

 

Continue to twist and roll twist and roll until you are happy with your swirls

I twisted about 4 times 

 

One you’re happy with your swirls smooth the your twisted master pieces into a ball

 

Using your hands, and fingers, press and flatten clay until its about 6”wide and 1/2 inch thick

 

Use the top of your bowl to cut out a circle

Flip mouth of bowl over and press down firmly

Remove access clay

or use knife

 

Carefully place clay into oven safe bowl push down sides and smooth with finger tips

Bake clay for 15 minutes at 275F or whatever the packaging suggests

 

Remove bowl from oven and allow clay to cool for at least 5 minutes

With oven mittens turn bowl over and tap until clay dish falls out

allow to cool for another 10 minutes

Once completely cool use a small paint brush and paint the rim of your bowl gold

Allow rim to dry

Paint entire bowl with glaze to obtain a glossy finish

 

**This bowl is not food safe of totally waterproof but its great for holding random rings and stud earrings

 

The bowl will be flimsy like hard rubber

 

DONE!

 

I hope you enjoyed this week as much as I did.

Have a great weekend.

 

XOXO

MARY