Air Dry Clay and Napkin Pendants

Transferring or incorporating other media images into your polymer clay isn’t that unusual but I admit I haven’t done it with air dry clay. This Greek artist uses the often cute motifs from paper napkins to do it with air dry clay here (English translation). Since the air dry clay and paper method is more of a straight up collage, the artist seems to apply a top coat – although the translation is a little odd there – to keep the paper firmly in place and not be damaged.

You could absolutely finesse all sorts of other shapes with this technique or use other thin papers in the project. Since the actual papers are being collaged – making the images opaque – on you could add comic book cut outs to black air dry clay for example.