Salt Dough Clay Art - Materials and Equipment

For this hobby you will need salt, flour, water, and glycerin or vegetable oil. The last is optional and can be left out. Since I found so many different recipes, I suppose it is a matter of mixing and see what consistency you are comfortable working with.

Mixing 2 cups of flour, half a cup of salt, three quaters of a cup of water and one table spoon of glycerin/vegetable oil, sounds about right to me and I wouldn't use any less of each.

If you don't want to take the risk ending up with the wrong consistency, or don't want to spend the time mixing and matching; there is ready made salt dough clay which you can buy online.

There are workshops, salt dough clay books, and step by step instructions, which all can be found on the Internet. You can use anything to create your projects with: a garlic press for hair, knives for precision cutting, scissors, etc., etc.

As mentioned in my previous posts; you can use food coloring, liquid tempura paint for mixing in with the dough and adding some color. After the creation is dry, you can color it with acrylic paint or varnish it, but I will warn you again not to use water based varnish: it dissolves the dough clay!

I would recommend varnishing the scupture. My experience has been that if it is not varnished, humidity can eventually cause the sculpture to loose its shape. It is worth keeping this in mind, unless you like salt dough turning in to silly dough! :-)