Just like setting up your clay work space you’ll have some variables in how you store the actual clay. When I was new to clay, a few zipper plastic bags and plastic Tupperware type containers were plenty. Later, when I got into clay a little more seriously the storage expanded. Unopened clay mostly lives on shelves like this. Opened clay is in plastic shoeboxes, canes are in shallower boxes and tackle boxes like this. Mixed scrap clays are sorted roughly – really roughly – by colour, tucked into big zip bags and then tossed into tote boxes.
If you get the idea I should invest in a plastic container company you’d be right.
Leslie of Peace Love Polymer Clay uses the parts organizer above for her clay. By the time I’d gotten a fixed spot for clay doing, I’d gotten so many boxes and totes that I could haul around that I stayed with it. And these days it would just be too confining with the volume of clay I move around every day.
Samantha from Jessama Tutorials went with something like I did – she uses zip bags to store her opened clay. I would then toss the zipper bags into shoeboxes or totes to keep them corralled.