Hello guys....
Today I just finished making a Tray for jewelry, I made it using clay and then colored it with acrylic paint. This is a simple Tray and very easy to make, the shape is also small but looks beautiful.
Actually I have started making this tray from yesterday but just finished it now because it takes 1 day to dry the clay. The material needed to make this Tray is Clay, I will use brown clay, many use white clay but I prefer brown like this one. Then I need acrylic paint in black, white and gold, and a coat of paint to make the color from this Tray not easy to lose.
Now let's start to make it, first prepare the clay then take the part you want to use. Knead the clay until slightly softened, then flatten on the table. No need to make neat shapes that are important flat, no thicker parts.
Then take the edge and slowly raise it up until it goes up and around the entire surface, this will look like a bowl. I deliberately made it wavy, making the height of the sides not the same to make it look more unique. Then if it is, trim it using water the parts that do not blend well.
Leave it for 1 day until the clay hardens, actually it's not really 1 day but to make sure it's completely dry then I just leave it for 1 day, and maybe because I dry it in my room it takes longer than if I dry it outside.
Then now is the time to color it, first i will color this whole Tray using white color. Then when the paint is dry, I splash black paint over the white paint, wait a moment for it to dry. Do the same for the gold color.
By the way, when I colored it white I made a little mistake, namely I accidentally broke the side a little bit, so this tray is a little sticky, but that's okay because the shape is irregular from the start so it's not very visible. But you have to be careful if you want to make a tray or anything that uses clay.
And the last part that must be done is to coat this tray with a paint coating, so that the color does not fade easily and is more water resistant.
And finally the tray for my jewelry is finished, i will put some of my rings on it, now my rings have a tray and i won't lose them again for putting them carelessly. It's really fun to be able to make creations like this, very easy isn't it?? I'm still thinking about what else I will do in the future, maybe you can give advice??.
Alright, that's it for this time. I will show again what I did in the next post. You can find me on discord, this is my username sweetest#6807, lets be friends.
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