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Press Pause: Clay-Making Session on the Weekend

Awal tahun kemarin sempat ikut activity-nya dari Orasis Art Space. Selain art gallery, mereka bikin beberapa aktivitas seni seperti  Sun Printing with Turmeric, Monochrome Suminagashi, dan  Clay Object Making. Dari 3 opsi, jadwal yang cocok yaitu bikin clay – which is what I really wanted to since last year!

Orasis Art Space
Galeri di Orasis Art Space

Sebelum mulai sesi bikin clay-nya, aku sempat lihat-lihat juga area galerinya. The building isn’t as big as I thought, tapi tata letaknya bikin kerasa sangat spacious! Belum lagi halaman belakangnya yang masih oversee wide grass field.

I guess the 1+ hour drive is worth it, cause we enjoyed it so much we lost track of time and ended up spending almost the whole day making clay hahaha. Aku yang dulu nggak bakalan nyangka kalo bikin art akan jadi salah satu kegiatan paling menyenangkan!

Art Station Galore – 11 January 2026 // Satu orang akan dapat clay seperti ini.
Went there with two of my friends: Agnes & Christine
The inspoo

Scrolled through Pinterest and decided that I want to make this sardine can filled with the sardines. I thought that would be easy enough for newbie like me (it might be biased cause I like the blue colour tho).

Aku juga sering lihat video-video creator yang bikin clay karena aku dulu waktu masih kecil pernah punya cita-cita untuk jadi miniature maker! Aku suka banget hal-hal mini kayak giniii!!

This is my creation before the colouring process. Mainly bikinnya food-related theme yaa haha. I know the fish is really weird-looking and kinda looks different. As it turns out, it is not easy to shape fish!

Foto di atas ini claynya sebelum dicat. Kinda look weird. Yang awalnya aku bikin sardines jadi merembet membuat food-related things. Pertama karena ternyata aku bikinnya kecil dan aku masih punya sisa claynya, kedua karena aku mikir makanan akan lebih mudah dibikin, I mean the baguette is so simplee and it looks good, right?! Lalu aku juga bikin photo stand karena lihat ada yang bentuk paw – I just couldn’t resist.

Before the coloring process, claynya dimasukkan sebentar ke oven untuk speed up the drying process.

Nah, before the colouring it with acryclic paint, claynya itu kita berikan ke stafnya untuk dioven sebentar. Sebenarnya clay yang dipake itu air-dry clay, jadi gak perlu sampe dioven. Tapi kalau claynya masih terlalu basah bisa bikin catnya nantinya mengelupas dan cracking – and we wouldn’t want that.

Baguette, pizza, egg, and croissant after I colour them.
With the ticket, sudah include 1 beverage
That’s mee- they also have a souvenirs section with many interesting products!!
Kinda messy, trying to get the perfect brown shade from mixing the primary colour.

Overall, I had a greeaaat time making clay. Sejujurnya ini claynya masih belum selesai sampai sekarang karena aku pingin kasi coat supaya bisa shinining seperti yang di video-video itu. Hahaha. But I guess, the point is that I had fun. No need to make it perfect tho. A little reminder to myself that not everything needs to be perfect, I could just do this for myself!

Unrelated, but we ended the day with a super late lunch. It was good tho. Aku beneran udah kelaparan X.X. Kalo gak salah ini sudah setengah 4 kita mulai makan siang.

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