How To Carve Polymer Clay
You can use your normal baking oven or even a small toaster oven if you have it.
How to carve polymer clay. With dry sanding complete start the process again with the 300-400 grit but this time soak the paper in water first. The rough design is lightly scratched into a smooth 38 thick sheet of raw polymer clay. Carving into baked polymer clay is most often done with gouges mini-gouges too though other tools needles etc can be used.
Oven Youll need an oven to bake the polymer clay. Design Team Member Emily Michel shares how to make a polymer clay bookmark with a Celtic design. All your resistance to carving polymer will vanish once you thumb through Page McNalls latest examples of her work and pictures of her tools.
Begin sanding with 300-400 grit sandpaper and go over the entire surface of the clay. Do not use a microwave oven for polymer clay. A fascinating documentary film showing how British artist Victoria Ellis carves a fine bas relief figurative clay mural.
I sometimes choose to allow this line drawing to stand on its own rather than continue with additional carving. Continue sanding with paper of gradually increasing grit density all the way up to 1600. Begin by laying down directional lines that define the motion and flow of the pattern then flush out the drawing by working back from the tip of each spiral 2.
Carving tools and tricks. Nov 12 2016 - Explore Katherine Smiths board Clay Sculpture Carving followed by 4056 people on Pinterest. Try placing the package of clay in your pocket for 30 minutes or so.
Large areas are defined by pressing or cutting excess clay away from the design. The film covers the entire process. Sculpting begins and some of the finer details are added.
