![]() ![]() ![]() I think my suggestion my have been written a little too simplistically. The "Fleshettes" sold by that particular clayer appear to be a pink-tinted lines of polymer clay called (regular) Super Sculpey, which is mostly translucent in the box, although other clayers use other brands/lines and colors of polymer clay, etc, for those kinds of things and looks. Other colorants sometimes used are also oil-based or are dry, like shavings from oil pastels, pre-colored liquid clays, and colored powders (usually mixed into translucent clay) or too much wasted. Generally a lot would be needed to create deep concentrated colors too, so mostly pastel and lighter colors will result.įor tinting polymer clay, the best and strongest colorants are artists' oil paints and alcohol inks. Water-based paints (like acrylics, etc) aren't advised because polymer clay is oil-based and water will get trapped in it, turn to steam and swell when heated, then create bubbling and/or plaquing. They range from completely opaque to more translucent (but the clear translucent ones will be transparent only if very thin and handled in various ways).Īlso only certain paints should be mixed into polymer clay to change its color. I'd have to disagree with this, at least one way it could be read.Īcrylic paints are the most common paint used on top of baked polymer clay and they're opaque unless cheap or thinned better-quality acrylics will be more opaque too because of their higher pigment load, but two coats of other acrylics may often need to be used for complete coverage or a good primer underneath (white gesso is very good).Īs for coloring and colors of polymer clay, the amount of translucence a color will have after curing depends on the brand, line, and particular color of polymer clay. If you need to do polymer clay more cheaply and that's why you were using plain Sculpey, there are ways to do that with better brands/lines.) (Whatever you do, I wouldn't suggest using original plain Sculpey since it's the line of polymer clay that's the most brittle after baking in thin or projecting areas and has other problems as well, or the other 4 lines of polymer clay I mentioned to you before which will also be brittle in thin areas. Molds (best page for:) > Antiquing, Highlighting, Staining Start from its Table of Contents page, then click on the category pages below at least, from the alphabetical nav bar: ![]() If I haven't said before, here are just a few of the pages at my polymer clay "encyclopedia" site that have loads of info on all those options. Which way you'd decide to go (or just try both) will usually depend on who you hang out with and what they're used to doing, and examples you're exposed to, whether you just "love to paint" so that would trump other considerations, what you want to sculpt, and/or what else you might want to do with your polymer clay (many things besides just "sculpting"). Those clayers vary hugely though from kids or just very inexperienced polymer clayers, all the way up to high-end "art" polymer clayers who know how to do all kinds of things with the clay to create "blends" (gradients of color in the clay) and just mixing almost any color you can think of, patterns, degrees of translucence, "special effects," carving and perhaps backfilling, texturing, etc, etc, and also many clayers in-between with varying degrees of knowledge/experience.Īlso, sometimes a flesh-colored polymer clay will be used for the skin parts that show but colored clays for everything else (or colored clays may be used just to "dress" the main figure done in flesh-colored or white/gray/etc clay).Īnd the sculpts can range from simple with plain colors right from the pack perhaps, to highly realistic and/or sophisticated colorings and styles, etc, for the sculpts, just depending on the individual clayer.ītw sometimes paints will be used on the surface of baked colored polymer clay by those clayers, but then usually just to "antique" or "highlight" textured or dimensional areas for visual interest/contrast/realism, or for details on faces if sculpting people or other animals, or within the clay or clay layers, etc.not for just painting over a whole baked clay shape. Most clayers use colored polymer clays though. Those may be the clay sculpts you're seeing most, depending on where/who you hang out with, etc. ![]() First, I think most people who paint on top of cured polymer clay are coming from painting backgrounds, or they're coming from exposure only to neutral-colored clays that generally must be colored on the surface to get any coloration other than the solid neutral color of the clay. ![]()
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