Candle Pigment – Blue

• Potters Rib: This wooden tool creates uniform curves when wheel throwing.
• Modelling Tool: Suitable for shaping, smoothing and sculpting clay.
• Large Ribbon Tool: This tool has a large curved blade to shape and carve.
• Sponge: Soak in water and use on your clay piece to prevent it from drying out.
• Needle Tool: This tool is great for placing delicate objects, making small holes and scratching fine details.
• Double Loop Tool: This tool has one curved loop and one flat loop to carve smaller areas of clay.
• Metal Scraper: This metal blade can be used to add finishing touches to pottery pieces or to slice thin strips of clay.
• Wire Clay Cutter: This wired is used to cut and portion blocks of clay easily. Also great to remove finished pieces from the pottery wheel head.
• Fettling Knife: This tool has a long sharp flexible blade for sculpting, scraping and cutting clay.
• Vinyl Case: Keeps your Pottery Set neatly and conveniently together.

• Available in a range of bright colours
• Soft and smooth, makes it easy to knead, blend colours and join edges
• Very good shape stability and minimal shrinkage so your sculpture maintains original shape and size once cured
• Ideal for press moulds, pattern making, canes, beading jewellery
• Once cured can be drilled, sanded, cut
• Compact 60 g size great for adding many colours to your collection
• Non toxic

Directions:

• Knead until smooth
• Create your sculpture
• Preheat oven to 120-130 degrees c and bake for 30 mins
• Carefully remove from oven and let it cool

Handy Hints:

• Wash any dirt and oils off hands, surfaces and tools with dishwashing liquid to prep for sculpting
• Prepare clay by kneading until smooth and pliable, can be shaped with tools or press moulds
• Baking times may vary. In general, allow 30 mins of baking time for every 6mm of thickness - test run recommended
• Under normal baking at the correct temperature may generate a small amount of fumes. Baking at higher than recommended temperatures can cause increased fumes and should be avoided (all fumes are non-toxic)
• Place onto a foil sheet or ceramic tile (to diffuse and spread heat evenly) and into centre of household oven preheated to 120 - 130 degrees C (248 - 266 degrees F) and bake for 30 mins
• Do not use a microwave with polymer clay
• Hardened clay will accept additional layers of clay over it and can be re-baked
• Keep your unused clay fresh in cling film and store in airtight container - in a cool, dry place
• Keep packaging for future reference

Techniques:

• Mica Shift
• Skinner Blend
• Mokume Gane