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The Oven baked clay That Sparked My Creativity!
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items I never expected to enjoy this hobby that much. I was just randomly given a block of polymer clay. With no expectation, I started making some weird creature, designs, and found that I really love the process, now that I’ve been doing it for a couple ...
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The Polymer Clay Tools I Keep Coming Back To
Videos that may help
Other lists I recommend
My story
The Polymer Clay Tools I Keep Coming Back To
This is a list of items that I use and recommend if you’re interested in getting started sculpting! Also not everything on this list you have to get here, you can pick them up at a craft store or even Walmart, use tis list and all my lists as a recom...
This stuff is awesome! It is so nice to work with and because it is over bake it doesn’t require any fancy equipment to get started!
Sculpey III
I prefer to paint my sculptures, but some people like using colored clay. This stuff is also great for creating jewelry, which is another common thing that is created with this clay! Let me know what you plan on creating.
Sculpey III 12 Pastel Colors
Imagine this wire as the bones or the skeleton of your sculpture. You’ve been this into the shape and apply clay over it that gives the clay. Some stability and structure will also making it more durable.
craft wire armature
You wrap this over the top of the skeleton you’ve created with your armature wire to build up some mass to your sculpture. That way you don’t have to use as much clay while adding size to your sculpture.
Aluminum Foil
Now you don’t need to get this kit, I have most of the tools in this kit, but I didn’t buy the specific kit, all my tools came from multiple different kits overtime. If you decide not to get this kit I recommend getting lots of little tools. They’re ...
Clay Tools Kit
I don’t own these, but I do love texture tools and this is a great kickstart kit. For my personal texture tools I make them out of oven baked clay or even just find random objects around my house that have interesting patterns on them that I can roll...
Hokkieam Clay Texture Rollers, 10 PCS Tool
This is a very important step if you’re trying to get a super clean and highly texture look. You dip a sponge brush in this and spread it across the entire surface of your finish sculpture before you bake it, this will smoothing out any tool marks as...
Isopropyl Alcohol
This one isn’t necessary, but I find it really useful. Sometimes your art piece cracks in the oven or while you’re handling it after you’ve baked it the first time. This stuff is like glue for oven bake clay. You just applied it on to the crack and r...
Liquid Sculpey
These are the sponges you want to use with your rubbing alcohol. They soak up a good amount of alcohol well also being delicate.
Sponge Brush
This one is also optional, but I find it adds that perfect little touch if you’re doing the eyes on an animal or creature you sculpt It also works fantastic for creating jewelry.
UV Resin
Sometimes I like to use these as my armature, I like them because, if you decide to make a creature or a character of some kind, you can leave gaps in your clay for its joints making it able to articulate and move around. One of my favorite things I ...
Craft Pipe Cleaners
Now this isn’t oven bake clay but I thought it’s definitely worth mentioning. This stuff doesn’t dry, it’s fantastic to make an intricate sculpture because it has the ability to handle extremely high detailed work. You typically make a sculpture with...
Monster Clay Premium Grade Modeling Clay
Personally, if I need useful when you’re creating creatures or animal characters. It can be kind of difficult to make a perfectly round looking eye. You can put these in the clay before you bake them and that way you don’t you can check that off the ...
Glass craft Eyes
Videos that may help
Here are some videos that can help you get started on your journey! Let me know if you have any recommendations that I could add to this list!
Here’s a recent video I made with my kids, we made many props and miniatures. For the miniatures we used Sculpey.
The BOX KING
This is the official Sculpey YouTube channel. They provide tips and little projects to try.
Sculpey
Here’s a creator that is using polymer clay and doing some incredible things. This channel isn’t dedicated just to sculpting but there quite the artist and I thought it was worth mentioning!
Boylei Hobby Time
This is a creator I have been watching for years, in this video he is using Monster clay, NOT OVEN BAKE CLAY, so some of the techniques will be different then Sculpey but I thought i would share for the people that are curious about the Monster clay.
Sculpting Monsters EXACTLY as described in The Bible... again!
Other lists I recommend
If you’re not sure if this hobby is for you or you’re just curious about some of the other hobbies I recommend,this list is for you!
This is my paint recomendations if you are looking to paint your creations! Some of the stuff is more dedicated to professional grade painting, but maybe you can find some insight that inspires your process!
The Acrylic painting techniques that changed my art.
If you’re trying to find a new hobby and you’re not sure what’s right for you. This is a list that can get you started, this list is filled with all my favorite hobbies that I have and do all the time. The list will be one item I recommend to get sta...
Find your next hobby.
My story
Here’s the story of how I came across Sculpey and how it turned into one of my favorite hobbies. Just like all my list I will constantly be updating and adding to my story section. Soon, I’ll have a video that is dedicated to polymer clay, and the st...
Back in 2017 I was working overnights as a forklift driver. On my days off, I wasn’t able to flip my sleep schedule very well and I would end up sitting up all night trying to find ways to pass the time. Then one day my wife brought me home a block o...
My Sculpey journey