love LOVE this stuff.. heres why: Properties of paper clay: You can make paper clay out of any clay body that you are currently using. Paper clay increased the dry strength of the body so that moving large pieces is less of a problem. Paper in the clay “opens” up the clay body so that you could work with much thicker walls for sculptural forms. Water vapor will escape the walls because of the paper; the threat of exploding walls is reduced. When working on sculptural forms, you can add multi-layers of clay. These additions can be added at any point in the forming process. You can add wet-to-wet, wet-to-dry, or wet-to-bisque. (Yes, you can add wet clay to bisque and re-fire the piece.) Paper clay will withstand multiple re-dampening to make changes in the form. Paper clay will withstand forced drying. Paper clay allows for late stage additions to a piece. Even when dry, paper clay will stick to the form and allow changes. It is easy to cut a handle off a piece and reattach a better handle. The fired results of paper clay are the same as regular clay. The piece will be lighter, and will shrink a little more that standard clay. Ash from the paper, and borax in the cellulose will act as a slight flux in the clay body. Use a cone 10 porcelain body and fire to cone 6 to correct for the flux problem. No change in formulation is necessary for stoneware or earthenware. from jerrybennett.net/paperclay.html
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 21:08:37 +0000
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