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1. May the Kiln Goddess Smile Upon You Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit. Here you will find a great collection of clay, clay art, and pottery related links, books, and other resources. What ever your clay interest, I am sure you will find some great discoveries. Have fun exploring. H...
2. Low Fire Clay Recipes Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Low Fire Clay. It is a small but growing lens. Please, if you know of any low fire recipe sites please suggest them in my guestbook.
3. Polymer Clay Sculpting Tips and Tutorials Polymer clay is a wonderful medium for sculpture. You can create one of a kind sculptures without the need for an expensive kiln or messy mold materials. You can create everything from very simple animals made from basic shapes to detailed, complex,...
4. Creating with Cold Porcelain Make delicate creations using this easy to make homemade air dry clay. Cold porcelain dries to a beautiful and durable finish perfect for making tiny flowers and other miniatures.
5. Handbuilding in Clay Welcome to The Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit for Handbuilding in Clay. Explore some handbuilding techniques, projects and resources for the clay artist and potter. Some of these techniques have been in use since man first touched clay, creating both pottery...
6. Using Liquid Polymer Clay Liquid Polymer Clay is a fairly new medium, only being around for a few years now. However in a few short years artists and crafters have found hundreds of ways to use this new medium.
7. High Fire Glaze Recipes Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of High Fire Glazes. This lens is in no way finished but I was getting quite a few visitors to my empty, unpublished placeholder that I decided to throw up some info and links. Please come back and visit and watc...
8. Feature Focus: Sculpting Eyes Welcome to the first in a series of lenses about sculpting specific features. Eyes portray much of the emotion in a sculpture and are where you first focus when looking at a face. So come learn about the anatomy of the eye, sculpting, using glass eye...
9. Painting Polymer Clay Sculptures Polymer clay comes in a rainbow of colors but some projects can be greatly improved by a little paint or other surface treatment. Popular techniques for painting sculpture include brushing on acrylic, airbrushing, and using powdered pigments to crea...
10. Introduction to Sculpting in Polymer Clay I have many lenses here on Squidoo about sculpting in polymer clay but none that really give a good overview of what you need to get started. This lens is about the essential information you need to get started sculpting in polymer clay, then you can...
11. Making Molds of Polymer Clay Sculpture The wonderful thing about polymer clay is that you can create one of a kind sculpture with it but sometimes you might want to make copies of a sculpture. For that you need to make a mold and then cast in a material like resin, plaster, or porcelain....
12. Paper Mache as an Art Medium Paper Mache requires few tools, simple materials, and recycles old paper into art. Now we associate it with children's school projects but paper mache started out as and remains a medium for fine art. Read on to learn more about this great medium (an...
13. Bentonite Clay Healing Bentonite clay, has not only been used medicinally for hundreds of years by indigenous cultures, but bentonite clay has, in recent years, been increasingly used by practitioners of alternative medicine.
14. Frog Art Center Art for your Frog Unit Study from how to draw frogs to painting, clay, sculptures, origami, frog cakes, Moche, Totem Poles and much much more... Children thrive with a hands-on. creative learning experiences that help them illustrate all that they a...
15. Setting Gemstones in Metal Clay - Precious Metal Clay / PMC and Art Clay Silver and Gold Precious metal clay - best known by brand names Precious Metal Clay (PMC) and Art Clay (Silver or Gold) - is an amazing material to work with. You can create unique handcrafted jewelry and other items that, after firing to burn off the organic binder...
16. Feature Focus: Sculpting Hands Many sculptors, even very talented ones, have trouble sculpting hands. They are one of the most complex features of the body to sculpt. This lens can't make sculpting hands easy or teach you overnight, but it will give you a good overview of the anat...
17. Teaching Clay Art and Pottery Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Teaching Clay Art and Pottery. This is another lens in the continuing series of lenses created for clay workers and clay wantabees. This lens will focus on helping clay art educators and teachers find online r...
18. Polymer Clay Sculpting Tools I'm absolutely addicted to getting new sculpting tools, both buying and making them. If you need some help deciding on what tools you need to get started or want to make some of your own keep reading.
19. Making Your Own Clay Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit about Making Your Own Clay. There are two basic methods to making your own clays, either to buy the ingredients or dig your own indigenous clay from the ground. Lets examine the process for both. This lens as all...
20. Wheel Throwing Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit for Wheel Throwing. The Kiln Goddess is a big fan of the wheel. Centering is so grounding, physically, mentally, and spiritually. To create on the wheel never looses its magic, the pottery seems to magically form...