Air dry clay is an amazing crafts material. It is easy to use, easy to work with, and you don´t need a kiln to fire it instead it will simply dry and harden that way. But, even though it is not mandatory, you might still want to seal your air dry clay sculpture to protect …
Air dry clay is quite different to work with than regular clay or polymer clay. It can be used together with quite some materials in order to create awesome sculptures. But it is not always easy to find out what materials air dry clay sticks to because it will sometimes stick very well when it …
When I first started using air dry clay there was nothing more frustrating for me than trying to smooth the surface of my first few sculptures. No matter how hard I tried I never really got the surfaces of my sculptures to look smooth. So after a lot of headaches, I finally decided to ask …
Air dry clay is an amazing crafts material for kids and adults alike. It is easy to use, you don´t need to fire it, and it is quite cheap. But even though air dry clay is awesome and even though it can do a lot of things it can´t do everything. One question that I …
Can Air Dry Clay Be Used For Mugs? – A Comprehensive Answer Read More »
I know where the question is coming from. I have quite a few air dry clay packages in my studio that are just sitting there. Some are already open and I am asking myself, every time I see them, how long they might still be usable. I will give you one last chance to turn …
Pine is probably one of the most extensively used types of wood in the US. It is quite cheap and comparably easy to work with. I personally like to use it in a lot of my projects. Mainly because it is so cheap and easy to cut. Recently I started to incorporate relief and sculpture …
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Cedarwood is commonly used for outdoor projects or generally projects that need to be resistant against moisture, rotting, or insects. So it´s mostly used for fence posts, fences, barns, cabins, garden furniture, and so on. Cedar, however, is not commonly used for carving. Mainly because Cedar is a softwood and normally softwood is not that …
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When you are interested in sculpting then Milliput epoxy putty is something you should be interested in. It is a two-part epoxy, that you mix before shaping it in form. You have between 2 and 4 hours of work time before it starts curing. You don´t need to fire Milliput, it will cure on its …
Epoxy resins are commonly used for sealing floors, walls and wood surfaces. Due to the fact that epoxy resins are more durable and effective than most glues, they are usually used in outdoor coatings. While epoxy resins come in different colours, it’s not uncommon to color epoxy resin to create unique colors for your specific …
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There are a lot of reasons why you would want to bake polymer clay twice or even more than that. For example, if you want to create a very complex sculpture and you need parts of the sculpture to be hardened already before you can continue to work on it or you simply didn´t bake …
