Monday, November 9, 2009

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Today I was faced with cleaning, a goblin made me find something I forgot, my first jobs in corn paste, a smile appeared on my lips, my mind flew to the summer of 2001 when I went into his head to want to try this new technique. When I started I could not create a head without cracks during drying, so I gave up and decided to create just the flowers.
Before I was delighted with the paste of salt, but nothing remains of the mother's fantasy that I had built. All it needed was a day when Tefnut (Egyptian god of humidity) did peek at the sky that my creations would return to the primitive stage, simple colored soft jelly.
These are my first corn paste flowers, many of which have fallen a thousand times to the ground and some petals flew away.


and here is a particularly




(photo, all images are mine production)

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

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Another type of organic pasta is the famous corn paste. It too is very cheap to make, but if it includes in the ingredients that make it more resistant than the salt dough. A creation
paste Corn does not require cooking because, just leave the work in contact with the air to have a very solid building. When I first time I was amazed by the corn paste its flexibility, however, is a technique that I abandoned after a short time because my goal was to create very human faces and I could not to make the cracks on parts round of the head. So over time I have used this technique to create only a few flowers.
As the salt dough, the corn can still be colored raw or after drying. Here too, the colors incorporated in the dough still soft after the object has reached its level of resistance to change the hue color, becoming more flamboyant. For the dough of corn can be used any type of polish. The polishing makes the object very similar to ceramics.
Here are the ingredients for pasta corn :
  • 150 g of corn starch
  • 250 g of PVA glue
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil or Vaseline paraffin (oil wine)
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice or drops of lavender oil or essence
Procedure:
Mix the ingredients gently in an old saucepan while avoiding any possible lumps. Cook the mixture over low heat, stirring constantly until the dough comes off the sides of the pan. Place on a plan and trying not to get burned a little mix 'pasta. Then, as the salt dough, you can proceed in two ways:

  • incorporating the color temperature (I prefer them) in the dough, taking the appropriate amount to our purpose and resting a bit 'color in a depression created to accommodate the temperature, then mix the colors together with the pasta.
  • create sculpture and painting it after reaching suitable consistency. If we choose this method you should use the colors much more resistant to tempera.
The paste that is left is advisable to close it in a bag or in a film to prevent the dough from drying out.
After our baby has reached the desired look we can proceed to polishing.
polished look that is dry and we can show our object in any place without fear that a damp and dreary day destroy our beloved creature.


(photo: corn paste, taken a long time ago)

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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Pasta Corn Pasta Salt

Now to explain the pulp of organic origin, notably the salt dough.
With the salt dough can produce delicious creations cheap, in fact the main ingredients we can find them at home.
I started messing with the molten salt at the age of 6 years if not before, I loved the clay but I loved much more the process of mix between the various ingredients. Of course, my creations were a little girl, but I was proud to have created from the beginning what I had in mind. A creation
salt dough is baked in the oven at 50 ° -60 ° , the time varies depending on the size of the object. But I can also assure you that if an object is small you can let fresh air in order to allow the water to evaporate, but this is an experiment I did when he was tiny and it was August when I forgot my creation in a corner of my terrace forgot to cook it.
The salt dough suffer much moisture so it is advisable, after protecting his creation with the appropriate paint, store them in dry places.
Below you will find the ingredients :

  • a cup of salt
  • a cup of flour
  • water enough
  • 1 tablespoon white glue
  • varnish
Procedure: Mix together flour and salt
previously finely ground with an old blender, slowly add water until the dough is soft and malleable. Finally add the white glue to make your creation more then solid.
Knead the dough for a few minutes to mix the ingredients. Once you create the dough for the creation can be achieved in two ways:
include acrylics or tempera inside the dough is still raw and then proceed to the realization of its object
create their own creation and then, after baking, to staining.
prefer the first method, however, the color becomes dark after cooking.
After its creation is completed, proceed with a coat of protective paint and show your creation in a dry place.
This is the recipe I always used, if you bring your own, insert it down into the "Comments" section.

Monday, October 26, 2009

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The Prosculpt

is a type of polymer clay is very different from cernit or fimo, This gives the possibility to be cooked at different times and then helps a lot the creation of more complex sculptures.
Recently I tried this kind of pasta and I must say that I found myself very well. It has an almost velvety texture and soft, a bit 'more substantial than the other two polymer clay but this allows you to touch the sculpture without it shrivels up instantly. The prosculpt seems almost like a magic pasta, in fact disappear after a few smoothing seams.
The only fault I found with the prosculpt is his habit of attracting all the dark macerate that are scattered around the house, so you should always keep your hands clean and wear during the implementation, dressed very clear. The prosculpt has a very limited range of colors than the cernit or fimo, in fact we find:
  • light : used to create the fairies because of its pale pink
  • baby: a color very similar to the skin of children
  • caucasin : the darker pink
  • ethnic Brown: Dark brown
this type of pasta is used especially to create human sculptures because it has colors that are very close to human skin.
prosculpt The cooks at a temperature of 100 ° in a simple oven cooking and after cooking the material is hard and tough.