Started making the cow out of clay. Left a open section in the back (cant see it here) for the prions. Now to let it dry!
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Are you making the prions out of clay? Can you bring a piece of clay to class next week? And show us some artistic tricks for working with this medium?
I would but I used my entire block! I don’t have any clay left to demo. I can try to give some tips to anybody thinking of using clay though.
I don’t think I will be using clay to make the prions simply because the random coils will probably break and clay would be hard to make into a nice helix. I was thinking pipe cleaners for alpha helices and some color foam sheets cut into the shape of arrows for the beta sheets. Random coils I will probably make from metal wire from some old spiral bound notebooks.
I have a block of something called “Sculpey”. The wrapper says it is a white oven-bake clay. Is that sort of like the stuff you’ve used? If I bring it in, can you give us a demo?
I knew I needed a lot of clay so I didnt use sculpey because it was expensive just for a small block. So I bought a big block…maybe 8 x 8…of just regular gray looking clay for $8 from Michaels. It is air dry rather than oven bake. So not the fancy stuff 🙂 I can try the sculpey but Im not familiar with the consistency.