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First preview of a sculpture I am working on. I will have these precious little ones for sale hopefully in the coming week. Depending on how far along I get through the entire process.
The wings are still not complete, I have to detail the one in the back and add more details to the frontal one.
Each individual scale on his body is sculpted by my hand.
I used a high quality sculpey compound.
Without wings, his body is almost 6 inches high.
I'll be selling them for 50$ each, they are hand painted and you can also order one with a customized paint job of your choice.
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I first check the melting points and composition of my materials before cooking them. So whichever beads you are using, find out what type of plastic/glass/etc that it's made out of.
My beads (transparent thermoplastic) melting point is 320 °F. When I bake sculpey, it's 275 °F (as directed on the box).
So it's way below melting point of the beads. It may make heat the bead up for a moment, but it turns out just fine when I'm finished baking.
Thanks!
My beads (transparent thermoplastic) melting point is 320 °F. When I bake sculpey, it's 275 °F (as directed on the box).
So it's way below melting point of the beads. It may make heat the bead up for a moment, but it turns out just fine when I'm finished baking.
Thanks!
This is totally awesome! Love to see your new stuff! I'm thinking of getting back into sculpy works myself, when I finish up some things. It's been a while though and i'm a bit rusty lol. Hopefully I can hit you up later for some refreshers and tips. It's been SOOOO long since I made my mold of my donkey character. How many parts to your welp molds is it? ALSO I always sculpt my eyes, if you are doing duplicates of something like this, how do you place in the eyes? Just curious! I STILL want to buy something from you one of these days, but we are SOOO tight budgeted right now. I opened up for some simple commissions to hopefully pay off my cats dental surgery from last month :( UGH Anyways great job again!
If I remember correctly from back in the day of art class, to put in eyes you use a resign (aka a mix of water and the clay you are using) and make this little scratches in the place you want to put the eyes and the back of the eye that isn't going to be seen. the mix of water and the clay acts like a glue. Though again, I am not a clay expert and this is way back memory. I don't even know if that works on every clay.
Oh that is amazing! I know that must have taken you hours or days to do!
I was thinking of getting into sculpting again since I think I work better with shapes if I can feel them. Not so good at drawing them and I want to experiment.
So, I have a few questions.
1. What type of sculpting clay did you get and where?
2. What is the price range of the clay?
3. What are you using to protect the clay from moisture and other things?
4. Do you have a kiln? If so where did you get one?
5. Did you mainly use or hands or did you buy tools?
6. How did you make sure that your area remind clean without having something stick to the bottom of the sculpture?
7. What sort of paint do you use to color clay. I have never done that before and wouldn't have a clue.
Thank you ^^. If you don't want to take the time to answer all the questions that is fine. I know you are a very busy artist.
I was thinking of getting into sculpting again since I think I work better with shapes if I can feel them. Not so good at drawing them and I want to experiment.
So, I have a few questions.
1. What type of sculpting clay did you get and where?
2. What is the price range of the clay?
3. What are you using to protect the clay from moisture and other things?
4. Do you have a kiln? If so where did you get one?
5. Did you mainly use or hands or did you buy tools?
6. How did you make sure that your area remind clean without having something stick to the bottom of the sculpture?
7. What sort of paint do you use to color clay. I have never done that before and wouldn't have a clue.
Thank you ^^. If you don't want to take the time to answer all the questions that is fine. I know you are a very busy artist.
Yes, it takes a very long time to scupt and detail!
I do have a FAQ for some of your questions: http://mariecannabis.deviantart.com.....rnal/40991626/
As for your other questions. Sculpey, the clay I use, is a oven bake clay. You can use your conventional oven at home to bake it. Sculpey needs no maintenance for it's moisture from what I know. Sculpey official website: http://www.sculpey.com/products/clays
Price range of sculpey depends on how much you buy. It comes in small packs and in bulk packs for large projects.
Use wax paper on the bottom when sculpting it. But use aluminum foil on the bottom when baking it.
I use my hands for sculpting, I have a couple tools that I made from old brush ends and other objects.
You can use a variety of paints for sculpey (After it's baked), that is if you buy the un-colored version of sculpey like the one I used. Acrylic water-based paint does just fine. Don't use oil based paint.
I do have a FAQ for some of your questions: http://mariecannabis.deviantart.com.....rnal/40991626/
As for your other questions. Sculpey, the clay I use, is a oven bake clay. You can use your conventional oven at home to bake it. Sculpey needs no maintenance for it's moisture from what I know. Sculpey official website: http://www.sculpey.com/products/clays
Price range of sculpey depends on how much you buy. It comes in small packs and in bulk packs for large projects.
Use wax paper on the bottom when sculpting it. But use aluminum foil on the bottom when baking it.
I use my hands for sculpting, I have a couple tools that I made from old brush ends and other objects.
You can use a variety of paints for sculpey (After it's baked), that is if you buy the un-colored version of sculpey like the one I used. Acrylic water-based paint does just fine. Don't use oil based paint.
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