Cold porcelain with their own hands (31 photos): how to make liquid porcelain at home? Master classes for beginners

Lrack - favorite lesson for many since childhood. And in adulthood, it can passibly and even become a source of income. It is not necessary to use standard plasticine at all, because products for creativity today have the most different. For example, it is possible to use cold china - gentle, soft, malleable, allowing you to make incredible realistic and sophisticated compositions.

What makes china?

Cold porcelain is called a plastic mass for modeling, which is based on corn or potato starch, as well as PVA glue. Because of the external similarity with porcelain, this composition was called.

Only if you compare the sticky mass with the original, it is worth saying that cold porcelain does not need high-normal sintering, and it solidifies it in a normal room temperature.

And it is wonderful, because even the same plasticine still retains plasticity, despite the conditional solidification.

What are the favorable sides of the cold porcelain:

• It is easy to prepare, therefore it can be prepared at home;
• All components are inexpensive, because the hobby is definitely not called costly;
• The composition is safe even for children - you can divide the hobby with them;
• The composition of flexible after it freezes;
• The composition has a smooth and pleasant texture;
• just work with him;
• He has a slight shrinkage during the drying;
• This material features high plasticity.

History of cold porcelain old: It is believed that he appeared in the XIX century in Argentina. But in the post-Soviet space, such memerial acquired more popularity in recent decades. Adults and children work with him. It creates unique floral compositions. It is especially pleasant that the master is working on the manufacture of mass itself: it doesn't just buy a ready-made composition in the store, but uses one or another recipe. The classic recipe for cold porcelain looks like this:

• 200 starch (corn / potato);
• 200 g of PVA glue (sometimes replaced by wallpaper glue);
• 1 teaspoon glycerin;
• 1 teaspoon of vaseline;
• 1 teaspoon of lemon juice.

Starch can be taken any, but the properties of the composition will change on the basis of which option you have chosen. For example, adding corn starch, you will make the composition smooth, homogeneous, visually creamy are optimal characteristics. But when using potato starch, the mixture will become more transparent, and it will be a grainy texture. There will be a feeling that sugar grains have been added to the ground. Such a mixture, by the way, is preparing faster.

Perfect if you use two types of starch. So you will receive 2 options: For colored, painted parts, the optimal mixture will be based on corn starch, but the light elements are optimally made of clay with potato starch. Glue is also important, many masters prefer to buy glue with a plasticizer.

Glycerin is used because of its hygroscopicity, it means that he can pull moisture. Therefore, it's convenient to work with a mixture, it will not stick to the skin. And the glycerin perfectly copes with the role of the emulsifier and thickener. Vaseline is needed to enhance the dough plasticity. If the master refuses such an additive, then during operation, the mass may simply break.

So that the porcelain clay does not mold, take a slightly diluted with water lemon juice.

Some recipes suggest the creation of a porcelain based on soda, in this case the soda will replace the liquid component - glue. Moreover, some masters offer to choose this option to create floristic compositions, because the mass based on soda deprives flowers of all artificiality, they look as realistic as possible.

How to make in microwave?

Cold china You can boil in a standard way, but sometimes at home it is more convenient to use the microwave. The main thing is to take a suitable container that is allowed to warm up in the microwave oven. For the manufacture of mass, they will need:

• Suitable capacity (desirable that you will no longer use for cooking);
• beaker;
• Food film;
• Pharmacy gloves (can be replaced with polyethylene);
• Scotch;
• plastic container;
• Cosmetics oil (or vegetable).

First, the wizard will measure the glue according to the prescription measurement, after which it adds it to a clean, ready-to-work container. Then the teaspoon, measure the glycerin, vaseline, add it to the glue. Next, squeeze lemon juice, also add to the composition. It is necessary to mix all the liquid components very well. Measure the starch according to the recipe, mix the mixture. Next, place the container in the microwave oven, exposing the limit power in it. Start heating. It is impossible to warm the composition with one approach, you need to take gaps every 15-20 seconds.

After any navigation, the microwave turns off, the composition gets, mixed and again put in the score. It should be repeated until the dough reaches the required degree and does not thicken. Specific time is difficult to say, because it is dependent on which microwave is at home (its power and even the characteristics of the walls are important).

In master classes for beginners, the main moments of cooking are listed, but often there is not mentioned about some nuances leading to the receipt of poor-quality masses for modeling.

Important comments on cooking cold porcelain in the microwave furnace:

• After cooking a porcelain in the microwave, some masters immediately seal a soft mass in the package, but if you thoroughly picked up the composition and achieved a dense consistency, then you can sculpt right away;

• The more you have a cream on my hands, the sternally, the porcelain will turn out, the paint will also soften it;

• It happens that the first cooking mixture in the microwave leads to digestion - very solid lumps can really be thrown away, but the rubber-like can be demolished, just by improving the hands with glue;

• Slices of the mixture that you take from a microwave oven, very hot (by the end of work - the hottest), so as not to burn your hands, you need to slaughter a piece in cellophane without holes, tie and put under cold water, warm up the cake directly in the package.

If the mass is cooked correctly, it will not stick to the hands, and if the hands are lubricated with cream, then the porcelain will slide, racking into a thin layer.

Starting to sculpt, you will see that, for example, the petal will not start twist, will keep the shape. Details are well whined with each other, do not fall off.

Preparation of a mixture on the plate

Making a soft material - the creative process itself. Alsitation and cooking, changing recipes on the author's methods are fascinated. Many masters with experience understand that Homemade composition is better than selling goods for creativity And even better those offering popular master classes. Because the experience makes it possible to compare, adapt to different recipes and on the basis of observations to make your own, which is suitable for you.

Standard porcelain recipe with cooking on the stove:

• Corn starch - 150 g;
• White hand cream - 1 teaspoon;
• Glycerin - 1 teaspoon;
• Water - 100 ml;
• PVA glue - 150 ml;
• Pan (well, if for the manufacture of cold porcelain you will have a separate pan).

The master class of special difficulty does not represent.

1. Take a saucepan, mix all the liquid ingredients in it, stir them well.
2. Heat the middle fire under the saucepans, boil the mixture on it until uniformity, periodically stirring the mass.
3. Add starch slightly, without ceasing to stir the composition.
4. Keep the mixture on fire while it does not thicken.
5. Next, get hot composition, put it on a kitchen towel.
6. Pretty wrapped the composition in a towel, put the mixture as the usual dough until it cooled.
7. After that, the towel can be removed and continued to mix with your arms.
8. You need to mix for so long until the mixture becomes soft until it stops sticking to the hands. After that, it can be shifted into a plastic bag.

There are complicated recipes. For example, the following:

• 1 kg of vinyl glue;
• 0.5 kg of corn starch;
• 1 tablespoon of sodium benzoate;
• 1 tablespoon of stearic acid;
• 1 tablespoon of an emulsion for the bleaching of the test (it is often replaced by white paint);
• 1 tablespoon of lemon juice;
• 2 spoons of glycerol;
• 3 spoons of vaseline.

Prepare a mixture and on average, and on weak fire. There is no universal council - you need to try and compare. If you boil on a weak heat, you need to stir the composition with a wooden spoon. The target of cooking time is the moment when the dough starts to dig from the pans walls. The process of cooking a multi-stage: First, the composition resembles a cream, then it is already more like a cottage cheese and only becomes thick in complete mass. When the dough lags behind the walls, remove it from the fire. Lay out on the worktop and place to the state of smoothness and plasticity. And transparent, and the opaque porcelain is prepared on the stove almost the same, but the composition of the mixture will be different.

Storage

A very important question in which beginners are often mistaken, the storage of cold porcelain. The first and main error is the storage of a similar mass in the refrigerator. If she hits in the cold, it will start crumble, will lose its basic qualities (including viscosity). After that, cold china is actually unsuitable. Think about such a simple example: if you put the usual PVA glue into the refrigerator, after a while you will see that it smelled to water and "cottage cheese." With cold porcelain will be about the same.

That is why the best storage option for homemade sticky mass will be in the package. Pack the dough, make a package or just turn so that the air can do it. If the air penetrates into the package, porcelain will be filled. And you should not store homemade dough in the dark - this is fraught with a mushroom with the institution. If the fungus "will attack" to china, the mass will become sticky and nasty. And if this happens with the test, it will not save any cream. The porcelain wrapped in polyethylene is easier to send into a plastic container, close tightly with a lid. Well, before the food film, this is not the best option. She misses the air, because it will not work in it for a long time.

Cold porcelain products should be protected from:

• moisture (during wets they are silent and do not always acquire the initial species);
• direct sunlight (otherwise the product is uninstalled, and the paint is simply sweating);
• Frost and cold - low temperatures will make china fragile, and even touching it can lead to clouds;
• Increased humidity - and it threatens products, since due to its impact, they can lose the original appearance (for example, it is not necessary to put a floral composition from a cold porcelain in the bathroom).

But to add a product of persistence and durability, it needs to be covered with varnish.

And it is not so important that it will be for varnish: you can use artistic, and acrylic, and aerosol. But a better lacquer is better not to take - he is just a casualties. Some craftswomen use colorless nail polish. But If you are covered with a varnish product, break the element will no longer succeed , flexibility is lost.

Since starch is present in the mass, the products from the cold porcelain can be attractive for insects - and this moment must be considered. Even preservatives that are used in recipes will not protect the product from insects. If you are going to clean porcelain, you need a napkin, a rag or a rigid brush. Dust can even be blown in a hairdryer, but carefully be with the temperature regime. If something suddenly sticks to the product, it is not necessary to rub it, pollution can score in the texture. In such a situation, a sticky tape for cleaning clothes is suitable.

Of course, Any product can be accidentally broken or lacquered to break down a piece. . In most cases, the situation saves superciles (only to take the option that its option is suitable for plastic, and necessarily transparent). The finished product should be stored in a separate box without mixing with other decorations.

Each product is characterized by the so-called mechanical fatigue, therefore it is not worth wearing decorations from a cold porcelain under clothes or under head removers.

About how to make cold china with your own hands, see the next video.