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The advice from Andrew is good, but the thing needed to imprint skin texture in clay must be harder, not softer, than the clay. You will need a little lifecast of a convex area
I have frequently melted wax to pour in a mold in the microwave. I do not like to use it to warm my clay, because it often gets too hot in places and will burn your hands. And other places in the clay...
This is just what I'm trying to do today but I thought I would try to put clay into the bandage plaster mold of the torso, which I did last night.
My plan has been to then put fibreglass onto t...
... it! To learn more and find answers to any questions I would suggest heading over to rec.crafts.polymer-clay. It's were the polyclay experts hang out. They can help you with UK suppliers as many ...
Hmm, good question for artists who work with clay - 'what's the difference between a piece in ceramics, and a piece in clay?' $X? On the other hand - there are some fine journals with &...
I am keen to get some technical tips on the process of making a latex mold of a life-size clay figure. I am needing to make around 3 casts of the clay work and believe that a silicon primary and resin...
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I would reccomend making an armiture out of some simple wire, and then working in oil clay. You can go to Douglass and Sturgess to access all of this stuff www.artstuf.com to order it. Oi...
I been doing a couple of portrait sculptures recently and have been modeling in clay. For one bust I produced a silicone & plaster mould followed by a Plaster of Paris casting. I now would like ha...
...ific question that frankly requires a more in- depth understanding of both urethane rubbers and polymer clay than either of us seem to have.
I appreciate your suggestions, but just to clarify for ...
Tin cured silicone is not affected by sulfur in clay. Any tin cured silicone should work just fine as a mold rubber. If the sculpture is in soft clay it will be damaged by the mold process, however, o...
Okay, so let us say I decide to work with concrete. I figure that I will need to make a clay positive, and then create a mold to pour the concrete into. Has anyone done anything like this, and could t...
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[I can't think of any topcoating that would look very good. Why not fill the major gaps with clay and pull a mold from the glued-together piece? If it was a plaster mold you could remove th...
...sed 'green soap' for many years. It was my prefered realease plaster realease, especially for clay slip molds, as it interfered less with the absorbtion of the clay slip. I bought it at a lo...
... like you need. (at the extreme end it can affect the smoothness of the surface)
Sometimes I leave the clay in the mold overnight. I prefer to pull the clay piece out after an hour or two, but if the...
...#039; I personally do more bronze work than woodcarving but I know that it takes less time sculpting in clay than it is in wood. You can make all the mistakes you can in clay and change it back by add...
[Yes, the harder grades of plastiline clay and wax are fairly similar in the way they work. If you aren't planning on burning the piece out directly, it is definitely something to consider. I hav...
...), but got seriously interested in figure sculpture in my last year of school. I've only worked in clay so far, which doesn't seem to be a very popular medium for the subject. A few question...
...riginal to reach a uniform consistency before using it again, or just give it to someone who wants some clay to practice with. Size of the model is important because softer clay will sag before a hard...
... you use a hot tool when adding wax to wax; you get a better bond. It doesn't work the same way as clay, though- it's stickier, and this has to be taken into account. When carving detail, ma...
...g and traditional methods both have their places. Lifecasting is like photography in a way. Traditional clay and sweat is more like painting. When photography started it did not displace painting. Per...
I sculpt... Clay right now, but am looking forward to getting into metals and other media with it...
You should try to avoid using sulfur based clays if you plan on making a mold using silicone rubber. Tin-based silicones are more forgiving, but can still get inhibited by large quatities of sulfur. P...
[Sorry, no. This sounds like this new stuff jewelers are starting to use, called Precious Metal Clay. It works like clay and becomes a solid metal object when fired in the kiln. It's supposed to ...
Anyone know of a bronze foundry in southern california, all i know are out of state and shipping a clay sculpture and having it arrive the same may not work out. thanks
steve s.
I would appreciate suggetions on where to buy (reasonably priced) rotating sculture stands for clay work.
TIA.
...apest pourable rubber is and perhaps where I can order some from.
I just finished two sculptures in clay and want to cast them into plaster so I can chase them before making urethane molds. I figu...
...ome time maybe you can share your info with me. I've never cast anything before but have worked in clay. I to would like to save some of my work in bronze Bob email...
...to do a cast bronze sculpture, for the first time, and I was wondering if I should make the original in clay and then get a plaster mold made from it? Does that make sense?...
Timothy, Have you tried the newsgroup rec.crafts.polymer-clay? They would definately be able to give you some good information. Karen Karen in western NY where it's raining cats, dogs, and fish b...
...cept now I'm at the stage where I need to remove the ultra-cal mold of the mask from the ultra-cal/clay mold of my face...
I smother the original mold in vaseline and then put the ultra-cal on...
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