I got up the courage to open my packet of art clay today. And I wish I hadn't.
I lined up all my tools, got a little pot to put scraps and scrapings in, dropped a pool of olive oil on a folded kitchen towel to oil my fingers but not over do it.
I found some leaves in the garden that I planed to roll onto the clay to create texture.
So far so good.
The clay seemed very stiff, so I tried massaging it between cling film but it didn't help, so I tried to roll it out any way and it cracked as I thought it would and didn't take on the texture of the leaves very well.

I scraped it off the board I was using and rolled it into a sausage and it seemed to become more pliable so I tried coiling it and rolling it with a leaf on top again but this time it stuck firm to the board and I could only scrape it up.
Should I of oiled the board (its perspex)?
What else did I do wrong?

By this time my fingers were caked in it too, so all in all a total disaster, but I do now have a pot of slip.