I had the unique experience of being a student last night and not the teacher!It felt more like a cooking class mixing a recipe of different clay colours to create faux amber at Breathing Colours Gallery in Balmain. After much kneading, rolling and shaping clay to make our beads we then embellished them with wire and stones before putting them in an oven to cure. They were then sanded under water, polished and the final process of aging them with burnt umber.