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HanaClayWorks — Adding Pastels - Tutorial
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Published: 2007-06-17 00:07:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 33605; Favourites: 460; Downloads: 449
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Here's how I color my clays since I only buy beige, white, and translucent. Why do I do that? It saves me monies because I hate spending the dough on a deep royal purple, only to use about as much as it takes to make one teeny tiny grape.
I'm cheap, but not lazy. xP lol
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Aha! I was wondering how I could achieve coloured clay without buying it individually, I'm quite crud at painting..
I just have beige sculpey, will this work fine or should I try and get a paler colour? Or not even sculpey at all.. hehe
This is really helpful! Thanks ~
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beige sculpey should work OK. i started out with a beige color and was able to color the clay pretty well. the one thing that you have to remember is that it'll be impossible to get yellow or white from it. otherwise, it's fine. ^_^
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i was wondering what sort of pastels you used and clay... i have normal sculpy, will that work? Though i'm not sure about the pastel kind. thanks
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the pastel would work fine with any type of clay that you use. 
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That is SUCH a good idea! And it saves so much money and/or effort painting. XD
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^__^ i'm glad you think so! hehe it pays to be resourceful... or cheap either way! lol jkjk
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Well, I'm kind of a penny-pincher so it all works out for me x3
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thanks for this tutorial.
will help save more money for other art/craft stuff. ^-^
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It's gret! Thanks u very munch! ^o^
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thank YOU for liking the tutorial!
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Now if only there was a magic way to keep dog and cat hair out of pieces I'm working on! *giggle*
Great idea! I may have to use pastels on future pieces
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I always joke that all my custom pieces come with "free pet hair" ;0P We have 3 dogs, 4 cats, and many pet rats. Quite the houseful, to add hair onto each of my pieces! haha
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lol awesome
i'm allergic to cats and dogs are expensive... rats are OK though 
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Honestly, I think the rats cost more than the dogs and cats! LOL
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I bought translucent clay and some pastels (I got the same one you have.. creepy!) And I made a naruto character from it. Best tutorial ever? I think so!
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lol awesome! 
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OMG great idea !
thanks for sharing
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^_^ thank you! and no problem!~ hehe
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This can definitely come in handy for me, thanks for sharing!
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lol, i only buy red, yellow, blue, black, white, and transleucent. i mix all of my colors from there... except brown, because it's an absolute pain in the butt to get the shade of brown you're looking for. this is a smart idea, but it might drive me crazy that i'd never be able to get the same shade of a color twice. 
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lol primary colors are awesome
how do you use pastels to get that airbrushed look on, say, a loaf of bread to make it look darker on top and more realistic?
to do that, i normally just mix some of the brown pastels into TLS and brush it directly onto my loaf or bun before baking. that way, the underside or inside stays white (or whatever color) but the outside is brown. :3
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Ooohhhh.... *runs off to buy tls*
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Thanks for the tut!
Good to know how to save money ^-^
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np! glad you found it useful!
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damn, I haven't any pastels at home x.X
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the next art store is in the city. And it's a far far way to city @___@
I NEED PURPLE FELT, HELL MAN!
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lame
on this POS island, the closest craft store is in the capitol city and even then, they have no felt and their clay is hard! >:T
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we have just one store which sells felt. Annoying, it's nearly on the other side of the city. @_@
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color pastel is the same that oil pastels?
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the color pastels i'm talking about are the chalk pastels not oil pastels. i've never experimented with oil before, but i would figure that it won't blend as well since it's almost like a crayon as opposed to a piece of chalk. with chalk pastels, you can shave pigments off of them like you see in the tutorial. oil pastels would probably come out in flakes. you could just try it on a small piece of white clay and see how it turns out.
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Wow! Good thing I saw this one! I was planning to buy 5 blocks of clay ! hahaha! Thanks for posting this great idea!
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no problem!
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"like shaving a baby's bottom"?? who would do that to put in their clay??????
*cough* anyhoo....
thats a really good idea! since paints hate me so much (even on paper...) i cant stand painting the random little things i make from sculpey....what kind of pastels do you use? and will the colour come off after awhile?
great tutorial btw
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D: i would put that in my tutorials... *sniffle*
yeah paints hate me too. xD i use semi-cheap ones from the Loew & Cornell company. iono how common they are at craft stores because i got them in my college's bookstore about 3 years ago. lol the colors will not rub off after a while since you're mixing it into the clay itself. it'll be similar to probably the company coloring the clay in the factory. if you put the pastel pigments just on the outside of the clay (like how you would put paint on the clay) then it will rub off. if you mix it into the clay, then it should be fine.
let me know if you have anymore questions~!
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thanks this helped alot :3 i should be getting more clay and some pastels soon so i might actually make some coloured clay....but im not shavin a baby's butt!!
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D: but it's... fun! lol i'm jk
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=O!! *le gasp* bad! no shaving baby butts!
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T^T but but... butt... xD
*lame lame lame*
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LOL it made me laugh 
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laughing is awesome! *laughs* xD without laughter, i would be boring...
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yes....many would (sorry im bombarding you with comments)
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Er... Roughly how much chalk pastel dust do you add? Because my colours just always turn out pale >_>
Also, would you have to bake the clay longer if it has pastels in it? I baked a bit for just a little longer than I usually would, and I could still poke my nail into it.. just wondering if it's the pastels that were doing that...?
Oh and (sorry I'm being annoying lol) can you blend pastel colours together easily? Say, if you didn't have a green pastel, could you put in blue and yellow and actually get a good green?
Thanks
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