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GrandmaThunderpants — POLYMER CLAY Tutorial Part 1
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This is part one of a big informative series I'm doing on polymer clay and clay goodies!THINGS I WILL COVER:
Part One- Clay Basics [ you're looking at it ]
Part Two - Basic Equipment [link]
(still to come)
Part Three - Translucent Clay, Translucent Liquid Sculpey
Part Four - Chalk Pastels and Polymer Clay
Part Five - Acrylic Paint and Polymer Clay
Part Six - Texture
Part Seven - Simple Ways to Photograph and General Tips/Tricks
That's the plan anyway! Please, if there's anything you'd like to know just ask me and I'll do my best to include it or find a way to squeeze it in! Please not this is not for specific items or how I've made a certain item 100%, this is for general polymer clay questions.
Please excuse my typos ahead of time. D: I'm sure you know what I meant, so no spelling/grammar nazis please.
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a guide to photography and paints in the future? fantastic I can't wait!
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This is going to be a fantastic tutorial series! 
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Oh wow, is that what you use? Some of your works resemble polymer clay too! What's cold porcelain like as a medium? Is it easy to work with? :3
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Really? Haha, thanks! My cold porcelain is homemade and it's relatively easy to use. It's reeeally soft, which has its pros and cons. The hardest part for me is to make the cold porcelain right! >.< I've never used polymer clay before so I can't really compare them XD
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I've recently started making charms because I see how awesome you do them and it makes me want to be able to do them too. I bought a package of original sculpey because it was all I could find. D: But now I've found painting them is terrible and I don't like it. I need to get a better paintbrush... I can't wait for 5 and 6. XD Thanks for this great guide. Can't wait for the other parts.
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Original Sculpey is good to paint if you're using a very thin paint, like the cheap kind that comes in the bottles for like $0.50 a bottle. xD
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Oh, I see. It's good that I bought some of that cheap paint then! XDD but probably not using cheap brushes either. D: You can see all my brush strokes and it's terrible. I tried making a sea salt ice cream and I think it's sad. I know I'd be sad if I looked like that.
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Are you using smooth nylon brushes, or more coarse ones? O: Also are the brushes fine tipped or square tipped?
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I think they're both coarse and one is square and one is fine. Should I use nylon?
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You should use a soft nylon brush, it can be any tip but I use fine-tipped ones just because I got a pack of them for really cheap, ahaha. But yeah, definitely soft nylon. :3
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Got myself a set of small nylon brushes.
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lol I always buy my TLS with 40% off coupons
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Meeee too. xD It's too expensive otherwise! I stock up on it using those coupons, bahaha.
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I can't wait for the fifth and seventh parts! I usually never paint my charms because the paint turns out lumpy, and it takes me twenty minutes to ever get any decent pictures ; A ;
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There is a special kind of paint you have to use... and it's very cheap and thin. xD So it works out great on polymer clay. When I use good quality paint on polymer clay, it comes out very streaky and weird. So I will go over that for sure!
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