Has anyone used this clay? I dont know if its something wrong with the one I've got or something about how i'm doing it, but the clay keeps sticking to my hand/tools. I've watched many tutorials: i use the same amount of resin base and hardener, i only lightly dampen my fingers. Yet mine doesnt stay rigid like in those same videos. Confusingly only adding plenty of water makes it not stick to surfaces for a while.

here are my clay supplies that I use

I'm selling these at a fair tomorrow I've worked hard to make a couple :3

I am appalled and honestly confused because I never had this issue before but I'm trying to paint everything I made that I had left to dry for a few days but when I paint them, pieces crack off despite having been mashed on with extra clay piled onto it during the process of making it and alongside that, when I paint it, it just peels right off even though it's acrylic paint! I don't exactly know what's wrong here :(

hi all! i made a mushroom incense holder which is super cute, but i need some advice. i used oven baked clay, then acrylic paint, then made it shiny with clear Premium Spray Enamel. i should have put this into consideration before making it an incense holder i know, but will this be a fire hazard? will the spray be flammable to the incense ash that may fall, even though it is dried? i know the science behind using a lighter and something flammable like hairspray (not a good idea) but i wasn’t sure of dried product like this vs. incense ash.

thank you for the advice and forgive me if this is a dumb question haha.

Hi everyone!

I’ve recently picked up pottery as a hobble and have been loving it thus far. I’ve been practicing techniques but now finally feel like I’m ready to the next step.

Unfortunately there seems to be few stores in my region that sell potters clay, nearly everything is just modelling clay. I purchased some clay from Michaels, it’s the Craft Smart Natural Clay. The box and site state that it’s an air dry clay and not to fire it but also is 100% natural clay.

I’m still getting an understanding here but I was under the impression that air dry clay is clay mixed with some type of fibre material to give it strength. If so, can I separate the clay from the fibres?

Or would this still lack the silica content to be able to turn to ceramic? I’ve heard that firing air dry clay can be lethal via the fumes and I’d like to avoid that, but I guess I’m just wondering if this clay (with work) could be used to make pottery with or if I’m better off just paying the hefty shipping fee and getting some from a retailer online?

Thank you to anyway to read this and has any help to offer!

I have made a yarn bowl out of Crayola Air Dry clay, and to attempt to smooth it out I've been using sandpaper to file it down. Now of course there's a ton of dust on and in the bowl. It's been drying for about a week.

I know I can't dunk it in water and scrub it like a dish, and I'm afraid if I get a wet towel and wipe it down well it'll start soaking up the water and have to re dry/become flexible and start cracking (it's already cracked some, I tried filling in the cracks with thinned out air clay, but it didn't work well. So I put a thin layer of E6000 glue over the cracks, but I doubt that's going to take paint well). I want to get as much dust off before I paint it so it stays as smooth as possible. Any tips?

(Also, if I use craft acrylic paint is it going to soak into the clay like water? My plan was to paint it with craft paint and then spray it with clear spray paint or mod podge to "seal it". Will this work?)

I build a stone fire pit in my back yard, and someoneentioned I could use clay as mortar to hold it all together more sturdy. So I have a 25 lbs brick in my Amazon cart. I noticed that there was clay powder too, and thought that may be more convenient to get the right moisture content. Will clay powder turn into clay when it's rehydrated? Or does it turn into a different inferior kind of clay?

I’m making coasters using airdry clay and want to glaze them to make them last longer. Are there any products that are heatproof? I tried mod lodge but it just melted🫠 or should I just leave it unglazed and accept that it won’t last as long?

I'm currently refining some dirt from my back yard. I live by a river so i figured its banks might have decent clay content but so far it just looks like mud. So where should i go to find clay if what i already dug up turns out to be useless? I know dried up rivers and lakes are good but i don't know how to find a river that's not still a river. I'm in Kansas, USA if it helps.

I’m taking a ceramics class right now, and I really love sculpting! I really like sculpting things like animals and characters, so I was thinking about trying monster clay. I’m hesitant to buy some, since I’ve wasted a lot of money on apoxie sculpt, which I didn’t really like using. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how it compares to regular pottery clay?

Like for example I have 2 balls of clay (Sculpt dry MUNGYO) and when I want it to be mixed together to become one piece, it sort of just doesn't want to combine.

I have been using this kind of clay for a few figures of mine and I have been wondering about that lately And in case it can indeed go mouldy, what are some other alternatives that don't or have lower chance of going mouldy?