I’ve been experimenting with some clay that came with some fill dirt I had delivered to my home, recently. The clay is dark gray with a slight bluish tint. The blue is lost once I start mixing it, and it’s just gray.
I don’t really care about the color, although darker colors are easier to photograph in sunlight. The challenge is going to be getting the clumps out of the clay. It doesn’t just absorb water on it’s own. I think I’m going to try drying it out and pulverizing it into fine powder before I add water. That should give me a nice, consistent slurry.
This video shows the result of 3 days of mixing and soaking. Not continuously, of course. The video is a little large, so, if you like it, you might want to save it to your computer. I might replace it with a lower quality version.
The mix you see here will probably end up in my mud pit, today. I think it will enhance my mud, which is still a little on the sandy side.
On an unrelated note: Clips4Sale is taking some disturbing steps that are alienating some veteran producers. They want us to do customs exclusively through their site. I guess they can’t stand the idea that some of us get revenue that doesn’t go through them, letting them take their cut. I never expected them to turn on producers who advertise customs on their web-sites, but they have. I refuse to do my customs through C4S because their censorship makes it impossible to even negotiate the details. Also, I’d have to abide by all of their content restrictions and let them have 40% of the purchase price. If you want a custom, you should contact me, directly. At the moment, you’d have to use X, Bluesky, or deviantArt to do that.