Creative Spark – Polymer Clay Techniques – Sculpting
Before I began making jewelry seriously I had come across polymer clay only once or twice. As a kid I played about a bit with it I guess, its great fun – a bit like plasticine but when you bake it in the oven it hardens and is really tough. You might have heard the brand names Fimo, Premo or Sculpey? That’s polymer clay. I work a little with this stuff now and then to make beads and sculpted critters but there are so many different techniques that produce wonderful results I wanted to share some great works of art that can be found on etsy and explain some of the the techniques in a series of Sparky articles.
Here goes – number 1 is simple sculpting. Just like clay, you can work polymer clay into all manner of weird, wild and even wooly things…
Miniatures are my favorites. This one is a fabulous illustration of how glaze can be used on polymer clay to a create beautiful finish after baking.
Cutting out shapes and shmooshing them together is a very helpful method when creating polymer sculptures, and you can simply sand away any thumbprints after baking. But the lovely softness of the surface of this work takes a lot of careful smoothing, a very important step that many polymer artists forget!
If you can sculpt with clay you can sculpt with polymer – how cute are these guys?!
In this piece you can see how polymer can be made to look like virtually any other medium – even metal, all you need is a bit of imagination (and an oven).
These just make me hungry.
and these are really clever!
Next week I’ll be showing you some of the amazing effects of combining various colored polymer clays. Please feel free to post a comment or share a link to your own sculpted polymer creations.
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http://speranzajewelry.com Speranza Jewelry
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http://intensedebate.com/people/ejorpin ejorpin
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pepe
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pepe
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http://www.brendasalzano.com brenda salzano
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http://indigoflameworks.etsy.com Indigo Flameworks
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http://www.monsterkookies.com Kimberly Hart
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