Christine Laginess on tue 19 jan 99
I am hoping that someone has worked with paperclay(homemade), Pclay, or Pslip.
I want to experiment with handbuilding and sculptural pieces. Please let me
know your impressions of these products and any positive or negative results.
Thanks Christine
clay&maxwell on wed 20 jan 99
Hi Christine
I have made my own paperclay and enjoyed working with it. (I mainly do
sculptural stuff.) In the actual firing of it I found it made more fumes
than smoke so it is important to have good venting. I played around and
stained some of the claybody to make colored clay and had a good time
creating with it. No big problems and I often use it as a patch for
cracked greenware. I am currently trying a commercially produced Pclay
from the U.S.which makes it pretty expensive since I am in Canada
(Calgary). It was basic curiousity that made me pay the $$$. It is low
fire sculptural stuff and I find it kinda rubbery . I think it must have a
lot of talc to produce this texture but I am not sure because I keep
forgetting to get the specs on it. At first I was a bit alarmed because I
actually had trouble getting a wire through to cut it! It was as if it had
a skin on it or something. The outside was quite watery/slimy but once I
got my hands on it it was not too bad. I also found it was almost
unwedgable so I either use it in pieces to sculpt or in cuts that have been
flattened (for slab work etc.) It is "different" to handle but on the
other hand I have been very loose and easy with it, dipping pieces into
water and using them for attachments etc. It is possible that the clay is
not "fresh" and so a little unworkable but I have a feeling that the paper
grain gives the clay a slightly different feel and "ability". Now that I
think about it, the semi dry clay (sculpted) seemed very strong and stable
when I handled it. The paperclay I made was a mixture of commercial dry
clay (low fire) and toilet paper (about 20%) which I dried on plaster bats
and used while still fairly moist. I saved the scraps and let them dry out
and will re-wet them when I want to work with the colors again. I might
even see if I can mix them up with the commercial Pclay. I have never
tried Pclay for throwing, only sculpture - there might be a commercial
throwing Pclay. Paperclay can be quite exciting for sculpture since you
can work wet on wet, wet on dry etc. In a workshop I attended we partly
dried some pieces to strengthen them before adding more to the pieces - in
my case, some legs for an elephant body! I broke the trunk after the first
firing but repaired it with more paperclay and refired and it's still
together. Better than glue!
Check out the paperclay website: http://www.paperclayart.com
good luck and have fun
Deb Clay
At 12:56 PM 1/19/99 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>I am hoping that someone has worked with paperclay(homemade), Pclay, or
Pslip.
>I want to experiment with handbuilding and sculptural pieces. Please let me
>know your impressions of these products and any positive or negative results.
>Thanks Christine
>
>
Thonas C. Curran on wed 20 jan 99
Christine Laginess wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I am hoping that someone has worked with paperclay(homemade), Pclay, or Pslip.
> I want to experiment with handbuilding and sculptural pieces. Please let me
> know your impressions of these products and any positive or negative results.
> Thanks Christine
Hi, Christine...I have made my own paperclay and love the stuff for
sculpture. You can break all sorts of rules about dry clay adhering to
wet, etc. and it's like nothing else I've encountered. There was a big
discussion going a couple of weeks ago, but someone else will have to
tell you about the Clayart archives, etc. because I'm new at this
internet game and haven't had time to investigate all aspects.
Rosette Gault, Paperclay guru, has a website and an E mail address, but
I don't have them on hand right now to give you, either. They are
listed in among those postings about P clay and I'm sure someone else
will answer your questions. You're welcome to post me again once you
have more info about the commercial clays available, etc. but I don't
want to burden you with excess details right now. I say go for it and
try some, you may become a big fan of P clay like I am. Good luck and
cheers, Carolyn
Marcia Selsor on wed 20 jan 99
I sent Rosette Gault some experiences I recently had with repairing
porcelain and then stoneware.
I had a 1/4" crack in some handles which dried too fast. I snapped one
off and put them back on with porcelain recipe powder mixed with paper
pulp using a tiny jiffy mixer. After glazing the patches were undetectable.
I regularly use paper pulp in my raku slabs to make them lighter weight
and warp less.
Marci Selsor in Montana
Christine Laginess wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I am hoping that someone has worked with paperclay(homemade), Pclay, or Pslip.
> I want to experiment with handbuilding and sculptural pieces. Please let me
> know your impressions of these products and any positive or negative results.
> Thanks Christine
--
Marcia Selsor
mjbmls@imt.net
http://www.imt.net/~mjbmls
http://www.imt.net/~mjbmls/spain99.html
IVAN BERKOWITZ on thu 21 jan 99
Christine Laginess wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I am hoping that someone has worked with paperclay(homemade), Pclay, or Pslip.
> I want to experiment with handbuilding and sculptural pieces. Please let me
> know your impressions of these products and any positive or negative results.
> Thanks Christine
i love working with paper clay because it is so "free" - i did a lot of
building at my cottage using logs to roll slabs and hanging bowls on
rocks.
in class we did sconses (sp?) and wall hangings - it's great
ivan
Elizabeth Priddy on mon 25 jan 99
In article <8c1b811.36a38ea2@aol.com>,
Christine Laginess wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I am hoping that someone has worked with paperclay(homemade), Pclay, or Pslip.
> I want to experiment with handbuilding and sculptural pieces. Please let me
> know your impressions of these products and any positive or negative results.
> Thanks Christine
>
The clay slip needs to be the same clay body as what you will be joining to
or on. I use rice paper blended to a pulp in a blender, then add slip 2 to 1
to the paper pulp. As the paper sets and dries, it makes paper within the
clay and then burns away. I no longer have minor crack forming problems. it
can also be applied to the surface in raised texture.
**************************************************
Elizabeth Priddy: potter, philosopher, artist
epriddy@usa.net www.angelfire.com/nc/clayworkshop
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