Aprils daily art

This months challenge was to turn a Thornton chocolate box into a miniature world, I was a child who grew up playing with polly pockets and the max yous, I guess it is a hat tip to that as well as the fact I want chickens but I have no space for them.

I used air drying clay, I experimented with a variety of clays and made my own air drying clay, made with cornstarch and baking soda. This produced a clay that cracked when it dried, this was not a great for textures so I decided that I could use it for things not needing details.

I tried out some millieputt Clay this is amazing but expensive, also I can't it in bulk. So off to the online store!

i ended up buying a 5kg box of the clay from the hobby craft, it came up very reasonably priced, it works well, and I have found that it does crack too when drying, I found that using ova, or adding some ware whiles your in the rolling out and creating stages helps keep it all together, when dried you can apply paint and then a sealant coat.

Over the course of April I have found that doing these clay items to be interesting to make, and it has given me a few ideas about other things I can create later on.