Clay

Clay is an interesting art form to play with. When we are children we play with playdoe and clay. The clay I am talking about is air-dry modeling clay, modeling clay can be very difficult to work with depending on the object you happen to be modeling.  As clay dries it gets too hard to work with, so your hands need to be damp constantly. And it happens to dry out your hands, I suggest that if you are going to be working with modeling clay that you carry lotion on your person so that way you can moisturize your hands after each time you use the clay. Modeling a human or an animal with clay is very difficult to do, especially if it has tons of small details. When modeling you have to take your time to create the art piece so that it looks realistic.

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This is a large simple block of modeling clay. When using this clay you can use a piece of wire to cut the piece of clay that you want off of the block and then you can use the clay on a table  or a board so it doesn’t stick to the table  when you are modeling the clay.

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As you can see in this picture, the turtle has a lot of small details. The turtles shell is beautifully cracked apart, and the scales on his legs and face are perfectly placed and modeled. The clay has been painted and dried so it will stay like that for a very long time. After a clay piece is dried it will stay like that until it breaks.