Color Clay

How do I add color to clay ........................? polymer beads

I have already done in white or black polymer, and have decided I want to add color. What types of paints or dyes to add color should I use them? There is also a nice glaze that I can put on them after paint? Thank you! =)

It is easier to add color to the polymer clay before hardening, but there are some ways to add later. Do not tell me if you want to cover the whole grain with the same color, or use regular or metallic colors, or make the opaque or transparent, making patterns, etc, etc but This leaves plenty of possibilities! One possibility because they have some white (or light-colored clay) actually would be to "dye" every time by painting of them - that would leave a black black areas, but the white areas. For example, you could do that with alcohol inks (Pinata, Adirondack) or paintings artists oil (tubes) that are transparent except for white ... it really can be done with thinned-down acrylic paint also, just remember to clean the excess fairly quickly (which would make for oil painting as well). This is more like "spot" or dyeing. Note that if you do this in one dimension or surface texture, if / when cleaning, the darker color will stay in the cracks on the upper surfaces (called "antiques"). There are other materials that can be added to the clay to create color after cooking, as well as alcohol inks (which really can be "painted"), oil painting artists, and of course, only the painting with acrylic paints. For example, you can rub the clay colored waxes Paste (Gilder is the best, but Rub N 'Buff and others also do) - and you can do the opposite of the previous method antiques with them easily too. That is called "highlighting", consisting of three-dimensional surface rub only in the top * * parts with wax and paint (on his finger usually) so that the cracks remain the original color of the clay. You can also "seal" the clay with inks and pigments in rubber stamps or other "tools". You can use pastels, chalk or even a folder with them. You can put sticker type "transfer" of images and patterns on them. (... Seal any of those things that are not waterproof by themselves) Metallic Possibilities include mica powder mixture (Pearl Ex, etc.) or real-metal powders in a liquid acrylic of some sort - or paint finishes see links below - (or even polymer clay liquid), then "painting" with them - lines, shapes, whatever (if using liquid clay, should be Rebak). metal "road" or aluminum foil can also add in various ways, and several metallic acrylic paints you can buy too. This mix-in-clear-liquid-to-do-nothing Paint can also be made with other materials such as wood chips and oil pastels or chalk, powdered pigments, "inclusions" of various types, etc. As for "varnish" when necessary to seal the colors you have used or if you just want to add a shiny surface for the colors you have used (or only in clay), there is series of clear finishes you can use. If you have not already "sealed" the surface of the clay completely (with acrylic paint, for example), you definitely To use a water base when finished, or an alcohol-based one if you can find it (oil-based finishes eventually will dissolve polymer solvent the oven if it comes into direct contact). See next page for loads more information, preferential rates and trademarks, etc. Here are the names of some pages my polymer clay "encyclopedia" of the site dealing paints, inks, dyes, inclusions, metal, beads, etc, and finishes. Instead of give a direct link to each well (who does not like when lots of them), I'll just give a direct link to the * Index * your browser for every site, and upon arrival there you can click on the name of each of the following pages inside the navigation bar alphabetically in the left side: Letters http://glassattic.com/polymer/contents.htm Paints & Inks> Inks and perhaps alcohol: Powders and crayons (mostly metal) Sheet and Accounts paper Finishes HTH, Diane B.

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