Salt Dough

30/11/2014

CHRISTMAS is on the way and I am making presents. I'm not getting much drawing done but, oh how I love making stuff.

These owls and skulls for some projects I have in mind are made from salt dough. I would normally do ceramic but my kiln is still not working (cash flow) - but I am loving working with salt dough as a substitute.

Salt dough recipe:
1 cup table salt
2 cups plain flour
1 cup water
1 tsp vegetable oil
1 tsp Golden Acrylic Medium Heavy Matte Gel

Add more water/flour to get consistency right.
Stores well wrapped in cling film.

I became quite interested in the properties of salt dough, it may be worth investigating larger additions of acrylic medium as it lends transparency to the mix which makes a material reminiscent of porcelain.

These have been stained using B's Damar Varnish mix tinted with oil paint. Fumes nearly blew my head off, I would never again do so many in one sitting.

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I work a LOT in sketchbooks and always have several on the go. My dad was an architect and naval draughtsman, and after he died in 2017 I found heaps of old templates while clearing out his study. Always having been an avid collector of shapes, at the beginning of this year I bought a WHSmith A5 diary to use as a sketchbook specifically for work based on them.

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As well as the work you see here, I illustrate under the name of Binky McKee (my mother's maiden name was McKee, Binky was every single one of my great grandmother's many cats!)
If you would like to visit my Binky website, please click the picture above.

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