Let me count the ways.
1. PIA to condition. Finally got a pasta machine. It helps. It is still a PIA.
2. Lots of ugly colors. OK- I only buy it when it is on sale- and the colors on sale are all the ugly ones- but still...
3. I cannot get it to be smooth. Other people can. I think I don't have the patience for it.
4. How do you tell when it is actually baked completely? I never know if it is really cured properly or not.
5. Thin pieces are very brittle. It breaks easily.
6. It is hard to use in the molds. You can't get a thin piece to mold decently. It pops out of the mold when you are trying to get a good impression and moves around on you. PIA.
7. It shows every little fingerprint and you have to be really careful not to bump it or anything.
8. It picks up random bits of this and that and you can't get anything off it without ruining the piece.
9. It is hard to move it from one place to another before it's baked without distorting it. so you end up having to work on a surface that can go into the oven.
10. It stinks.
11. I know it is toxic and I always worry about the residue that might be left on my hands and the fumes from baking it.
12. It takes too many steps to do any of the cool stuff with it- and then you have to bake it and cool it and... too time intensive for instant gratification girl here...
I could keep going, but I think you get the idea.
I do not like polyclays.
2 comments:
Hi Zeb,
Love your blog, especially on the PIA polyclay. Too funny, thanks.
Hugs, Sondra
Hi zeb, I read what you said about the thin pieves being brittle. So true! But I was thinking about giving them a coat with transparant opals. And about the ugly colors.... You can mixe them together with white, black, pearl and if that does not do the trick you can always give polyglaze a try. You lose the plastic look than also. I love the worn look of old not really smooth fimo. Take a look at my blog for the worn look if you like.
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