Learn how to make your own cold porcelain paste

Cold porcelain is a great air-dry clay that is very strong and durable when dry. Great for making flowers and small to large sculptures.  You can create your own cold porcelain paste at home from simple ingredients.  Here we have a clear, instructional video demonstration by our Yahoo Group member, Sangeeta, showing her easy microwave recipe (with the help of her son, the young, but talented producer, director and host of the video).  


There are many recipes for making cold porcelain paste being adapted according to the project to be made. This is just one of the recipes and relatively easy to accomplish.   Happens to be my favorite!!



For more information, please visit Sangeeta's website Everlasting Blooms or join our Air-Dry-Clay Yahoo Group.    Also see my other blog, Cold Porcelain Tutorials for more recipe options.

Sculptures by Allen & Patty Eckman

The stunningly detailed sculpture shown above and in the video below may only be made from paper - but they are being snapped up by art fans for equally stunning prices!


Husband and wife team Allen and Patty Eckman create clay molds and then put a specially formulated paper pulp into their molds and pressurize it to remove the water.   Allen explained their technique:  "It should not be confused with papier mache. The two mediums are completely different. I call what we do 'cast paper sculpture'."


The pieces depict traditional scenes from Native American history along with some wildlife vignettes and commissioned subjects.  The artists write:  ..."Some of them we create are lifesize and some we scale down to 1/6 lifesize" ...  sometimes taking up to 11 months to make each piece.  





In 1987 Allen Eckman stumbled onto cast paper as a fine art medium and instantly recognized the beauty and possibilities for creating high detail, strong, acid free, pure, fine art sculpture. It took the Eckmans many years to unlock the secrets to the medium. Discoveries included paper formulation, equipment and tool innovations and their unique paper processing methods.  You cannot get where Patty and Allen Eckman are by pulping cotton linters in your kitchen blender.

However!....if you're interested in trying this exciting new technique, you'll be glad to know you can purchase a booklet from Eckman Fine Art where you can see an overview of exactly how the artists create their work at a master level or buy one of their DIY kits "Patty's Flowers".  

Patty's Flowers are a series of beginning level products for creating beautiful life-size fine art cast paper sculpted flowers taught in the Eckman Method® program. They are the first level introduction to the Eckman Method.  Read more about these products at Eckman Fine Art.  

Also in development is the complete Eckman Method® Program in a dowloadable format.     The process taught through the Eckman Method® includes working with museum quality hand made Eckman paper and bonding agents, using casts from Eckman paper pulp, then altering and transforming them into finished works of art using Eckman techniques such as forms, templates, other casts and freehand sculpting with various hand made paper products and tools manufactured by Eckman Fine Art. 

How to Make Cold Porcelain Chrysanthemums

Chrysanthemums come in many types and colors, but here is a good starter.   In this tutorial, Margaret shows you how to make a fairly simple white flower using cold porcelain paste.   Most any brand of air-dry clay could also be used to create these flowers.   Once you've made one, you could create a whole bouquet of different color mums!

http://www.celcrafts.co.uk/CelClub/TutorCPorcChrys.htm

How to make embellishments with ADC

Toodles and Binks shows us how to create embellishments with rubber stamps and air-dry clay for your scrapbooking project or some other clever project!  

Part 1



Part 2

How to create artful leaves with Lumina ADC

Camille Young shows us how she creates her leaf jewelry with Lumina air-dry clay  http://camilleart.com/2008/01/24/lumina-clay-leaves/