have you ever tried coating the dice in polyurethane ?
Like varnish? I have considered it, and I probably will do some varnished ones in future, but for now people's biggest compliments have been about the texture so I don't wanna mess with that too much. I have some experimental ones I'm working on that I'll probably have to varnish, though, so that should be fun!
I will have lots of ceramic dice sets available 😀 This will include polyhedral sets, pip dice, fate/fudge, VtM sets, and some other treats. Set your clock as they go fast!
Wow! Thanks for all the support on the Greek mythology dice! I only have two sets left, including this River Styx set that contain tiny handmade skulls :)
so i have some sets of dice. beautiful dice. stunning dice. and some nice dice bags for them cause i know how to crochet! HOWEVER. yarn is opaque. i decided i wanted to display them. but also not just . put them on my desk or something as is. i'd lose them in a heartbeat
SO.
air dry clay.
i basically just made a vague disc, not really trying to get it level or to get it super smooth or round, because i knew i wouldn't get it exactly right, having Zero tools besides my hands. so i went for that artisanal look 😎. then i just pressed the dice into it and that was it basically
i sculpted on monday, the clay promises to dry in 24h. after around 26, it Definitely Was Not, i texted some friends, complaining, one of them is studying to be an engineer and he told me that "probably below 17 degrees celcius" isn't good for the drying speed of my little dice stand
so i went to sit in that room and turned the heating on, after about 2 hours there was a noticeable improvement, and it was bedtime, so i turned the heating back off and went to sleep.
this morning, i turned the heating on again, after about 2 hours i started googling "how to tell if clay is dry", and "can i paint almost dry air dry clay"
eventually discovered that pressing with fingernail in dry airdry clay will still leave a mark and my clay was probably dry. so then the painting began!
i used 3 different paints from the Amsterdam line of acrylic paints from Talens, the prussian blue, the zinc white (i think, the more translucent of their two whites, because it's fine for mixing in, and i accidentally bought it instead of the good-coverage white, and now i have both), and the graphite special paint
the graphite paint is basically the colour of pencil, and looks like brilliant silver if the light hits it right, but can also look like rather dark grey, i love it
i mostly painted over all the white i used, didn't like the vibes in the end. usually i LOVE prussian blue and white and you should try it. prussian blue and graphite and white just kinda wasn't the vibe
Didn't get a chance to post this yesterday (thank you, tonsillitis, hitting JUST in time for Christmas 🙃), but Happy Winter's Crest, everybody! And once again, eternal Nat 20's for my sister:
Crazing occurs on ceramics when the glass contracts more than the clay. This doesn't just happen in the kiln, so sometimes you will see this on antique pieces.
I intentionally craze some dice, allowing me to let ink draw into the cracks via capillary action for a cool effect!