Many people who work in polymer clay use ceramic tiles as work surfaces. I personally have a complete arsenal of tiles ranging in sizes from 12”, 6” and 4” squares to lengthy 4 x 8’s and even little 1 1/2” squares.
They work nice because the clay simply sticks earlier than curing and peels off cleanly after baking.
This video is an instance of a challenge that makes use of fairly a number of ceramic tiles:
However I encountered an issue a number of years in the past after I obtained a brand new work desk. The tiles slid round at any time when I utilized any strain resembling rolling with an acrylic rod, or sliding a blade beneath the clay.
A easy resolution to this drawback is to chop items of grippy shelf liner to simply just below the scale wanted in your tile. I maintain mine in a drawer subsequent to my work desk.
Everytime you seize a tile to work with, simply seize a chunk of liner to place the tile on high of. No extra slipping and sliding. Yay!
The one downside to pay attention to is that as a result of the tile is now barely raised off the floor of the desk, my clay blade and different skinny instruments like to cover beneath it.
It’s a small drawback in change for an excellent deal extra stability whereas working.
Hope you discover this tip useful.
What small changes assist your artistic work go extra easily?
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