How To Carve Polymer Clay
Try placing the package of clay in your pocket for 30 minutes or so.
How to carve polymer clay. Design Team Member Emily Michel shares how to make a polymer clay bookmark with a Celtic design. Carving into baked polymer clay is most often done with gouges mini-gouges too though other tools needles etc can be used. With dry sanding complete start the process again with the 300-400 grit but this time soak the paper in water first.
When carving clay consider the first lines incised into the clay to be the skeleton of your design. Carving tools and tricks. Btw though dont use certain lines of polymer clay if you want to carve after baking since theyll be more brittle after baking and wont carve as smoothly.
You can use your normal baking oven or even a small toaster oven if you have it. The film covers the entire process. Large areas are defined by pressing or cutting excess clay away from the design.
Page shows how she often makes silicone molds of her carvings which simplifies creating subsequent similar pieces. Do not use a microwave oven for polymer clay. All your resistance to carving polymer will vanish once you thumb through Page McNalls latest examples of her work and pictures of her tools.
Some people like to place the clay in a ziploc bag and then submerge the bag in hot tap water. A fascinating documentary film showing how British artist Victoria Ellis carves a fine bas relief figurative clay mural. Oven Youll need an oven to bake the polymer clay.
The rough design is lightly scratched into a smooth 38 thick sheet of raw polymer clay. Please download Fortnite for free here. Begin sanding with 300-400 grit sandpaper and go over the entire surface of the clay.