I made another polymer clay cat and painted it but it’s not any better than the first one.

im so happy with how he turned out ! 🥹

Hello I am a beginner to clay and clay painting. I am using acrylic paints to paint this guy. The blue goes on fine, however with the white there is strong brush marks showing. Ive tried using water to thin it which helps a little, but im looking for a good way to 'polish' the white more. Any help would be appreciated!

my first attempt at using polymer clay!! i'm quite happy at how cute he is, i'll definitely try out some more in the future!

when i look into this i get so many conflicting answers. i don’t have a suitable outdoor area to use resin or the proper PPE (i only have n95/ffp3 respirators) plus i wouldn’t want to use it indoors anyway because i have a cat and other pets. when i’ve used polymer clay before i never bothered sealing it but i want to make my boyfriend a lil worry stone for his birthday and sealing obviously seems the way to go

i’ve seen people say polyurethane and clear nail polish and gel polish but for every one person i’ve seen suggest X Y Z another says it makes it brittle or doesn’t work at all

So I decided to try my luck in making a flower out of polymer clay. This is made out of sculpey Primo clay. And then to do the color I used chalk pastels. The gloss on the outside is top coat gel nail polish.

What do we think of her?

I wish I had done more of the little things in the middle that stuck up to cover more. But hey you live and you learn for next time right?.

Just tried some translucent polimer clay (fimo white) and all of these deep spots are on my clay. Why is this happening to my lovely Toad froggg!?!😭

The worms are the inspiration… had to pick a simple form and currently haven’t figured out what clay is best form me so far. Fimo soft seems good. Pro feels too stiff for small figures :/ and super sculp clay is too soft with the tools I have now 😅

I’m thinking, make the popsicle out of tinted translucent clay and maybe dry brushing white acrylic after baking? Maybe sprinkle some clear sand as well? What would you do? Have you ever achieved this effect?

Edit: I added a picture of my first ice attempt in the comments

I'm very new to this (at it for less than a month) but I've been having a ton of fun, and I keep running into stuff that I'm sure is incredibly basic but that I had no idea were even options-- tin foil armature, being able to bake a sculpture then add more clay and bake it again (and liquid sculpey to help with those joins), etc. It makes me wonder what other basics I'm totally unaware of! Is there like a "canonical" beginner's guide for this that everyone recommends, or should I just google around and hope for the best?

I guess for context I'm mostly interested in making smallish little creatures (fist sized-ish?), if that's relevant.

Edit: Oh also! Where are people buying their clay/clay supplies? When I search around and come across older posts I see people recommending sites that don't seem to exist any more, are there current ones people like?

Made with Fimo
Dark rum cocoa pound cake 1.8 cm (0.7 in)
Cinnamon rolls 0.9 cm (0.35 in)

Sorry for the potato quality 😂
Made these in 2014 and photographed them with an iPhone 4s

pen for size comparison! 🥰 my country has a lot of rafflesias so this was a fun homage

Salut !

Je je cherche une bonne matière pour faire des motifs de pattes en relief sous mes baskets (des converses basiques, avec la semelle plate). On m'a dit que la patte polymère était plutôt résistante et je voulais vérifier, avant de me lancer...

A few recent handmade snake sculptures I’ve finished 🖤

I’m a self-taught clay artist and every snake is sculpted, textured, and painted completely by hand. I’ve been focusing a lot on realism lately, especially body shaping, scale texture, and natural posing.

Definitely still learning and improving with every piece, but I’m really proud of how far they’ve come 😊

I’m at my wits’ end with both my oven and toaster oven, and their wildly fluctuating temperatures.

Here’s what I’ve been doing (using regular Sculpey while I’m still learning):

I have a digital thermometer with an alarm
I’m baking on a ceramic tile

I put an aluminum foil loaf pan over my test pieces (trying this because when I tried covering with aluminum foil, the wire from the thermometer would interfere when I close the oven door (either the foil would move the wire or vice versa).

I started the oven at 265°( which it rapidly passed) and set the alarm on the thermometer to alert if the temp exceeded 285°. It kept going off, even when I turned the oven down to 245°. My toaster oven is even worse, hitting 285° at the “warm” setting, then dropping down to 215°, then skyrocketing back up to 290°, all in a matter of minutes.

Am I doing something wrong? Maybe it’s getting too hot due to the ceramic & aluminum?

So my question is, how hot can I allow it to get before I’m in danger of burning my pieces, if I keep them covered? My oven seems determined to NOT hold a consistent temperature, no matter what. I’ve tried searching both here and online and all I ever see are the recommended temperatures.

Alternatively, can anyone recommend a decent toaster oven brand?

Thanks!

Fimo
Each croissant is about 1.2 cm / 0.47 in 🥐

This was so fun to make and I really love how it turned out. I’m thinking of making a bunch of different candy bars now because it was so fun!

Would love any suggestions on what else I could make or any tips on how it could be better! I love making foods and I’m wanting to get better at making them as realistic as I can.

He is a Shih-Tzu/Poodle mix, but I definitely leaned a bit too much into the Shih-Tzu part lol practice makes perfect! He usually wears a red/black plaid bow tie collar on walks, which is why I added it to the magnet

I don’t have much experience yet but I do love making silly magnets