 Hen Rooster Chicken Chick Painted Clay Ceramic Figurine Colorful 5" Orange Green US $12.99 
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 HANDPAINTED CLAY FIGURINE OF MOTHER & CHILDREN W/ PETS - COLORFUL - 4 X 4 1/2 US $12.99
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What do I need to make a homemade clay figurine?
I'm looking to make some fan art work using clay.
Now its been a long time since I did any clay work.
And I also don't have accesses to firing it. (Unless some one knows of any in Bradford UK)
What I'd like to know is:
What kind of clay should I use?
How can I colour it?
How do I varnish it?
And where I can get these items from?
I recommended Polymer Clay to someone else, but I haven't used it myself. It's not real clay, more like play doh, I suppose.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_clay
The benefits are that you can actually color the clay itself as you go, you can put it in your oven and "fire" it. See the link. And I've seen some cool stuff with it:
http://www.elfwood.com/~xandrad/Smaug.3345405.html
As far as regular clay, I've never been a fan because there's so many stages of it and it's messy. Slip (watered down like mud), normal wet clay, bone dry, and then fired. When it drys, it can start cracking. If you can't fire it, you can probably get away with letting it just naturally dry, but it will be more brittle. I think acrylic paint would do for. Don't fire it with that paint on it, it would most likely just burn. I would see your local arts & crafts store for what materials they have and what they suggest. If you can't find anything, search online. Maybe even see about a public school for firing the clay. My middle and high school in the USA all had firing ovens. I later even found my church had a firing oven I didn't know about. There may even be a place in your town.
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