![]() This clay little stiffer than the other clays, but warming it under a light bulb will ease the conditioning process. It is a great new clay that stays bendable after baking. Sculpey Super Flex Bake & Bend is the make it and play with it clay. ![]() It finishes as a natural, satin look that can be sanded to a semi-gloss. Its colors are based on the Grumbacher color line, making it possible to mix like paint. It comes in an array of colors, including metallics and pearlescents, making it a beautiful choice for jewelry. It holds sculpting lines well and also is used as a "backing" with other clays. Although it may seem stiff at first, it is easy to use and stronger than the Sculpey III. It was developed as a result of artists' ideas of the perfect polymer clay. Premo! Sculpey is a popular choice for its strength and beautiful colors. It is strong and self supporting and doesn’t crack in large pieces which makes it great for larger clay projects as well. Sculpey Souffle is an innovative lightweight clay perfect for jewelry making! Its strength and ability to hold detail makes it an excellent clay for advanced techniques such as mokume gane, bargello and caning. Sculpey III can be easily mixed to form your own custom palette and can be mixed with other polymers such as Prēmo! Sculpey. Sculpey III maintains tooling and details and can be used for figurines, jewelry, home decor and millefiore canes. Once cured, Sculpey III bakes hard and takes on a matte, bisque type finish. Sculpey III has won parenting awards and is easy to condition and use, making it the perfect clay for children as well as adults. Sculpey III is popular for its softness, finish, and variety of vivid colors. The flesh color to the clay gives it a great look, and can easily be painted. This clay is great for sculpting and making figurines. It is used for mold-making, by movie studios and professionals world wide and is a favorite with doll-makers, having a finished porcelain look to it. Beige-pink in color, it is easy to condition, maintains fine tooling and detailing and will have a matte, slightly translucent finish. Super Sculpey is a more durable development of the Original Sculpey, and can be "carved" and used for projects requiring fine details. It is recommended for bulkier projects and may become brittle in thin areas after curing. It is used in classrooms and is the most economical choice. It is available in white and the new Terra Cotta, and will have a bisque finish. Sculpey is soft and pliable, works and feels like ceramic clay, but will dry out when exposed to air. Original Sculpey is just that, the original clay from Polyform Products. Below, we have a description for the best uses of all the clay lines we carry. Each clay line does different things better. You may be asking 'what's the best polymer clay to use?' The answer is: it depends. You need a different approach.Sculpey is a Polymer clay brand that carries many different lines. Each line has different pros and cons that make it best for a certain situation. It cannot be treated like Fimo soft or Premo. Most people think that it is old clay and cannot be conditioned but it can, you just need to know how to handle it. It tends to be crumbly almost pastry like in its texture. Conditioning: Pardo is difficult to condition unless it is brand-new, fresh out of the packet. Strength: Super hard, strong clay even on thin pieces.Ĭons: Plaquing: In the translucent range can be an issue but this is true with all translucent, it appears worse in the Pardo range because it is much clearer so the plaquing is more obvious. ![]() Colour: wide range of colours, good for creating colour blends. Whiteness: The whites stay white when it has been cured. Pros: Translucency: It is the most translucent clay on the market. ![]() It is not easily broken making it ideal for jewellery making. It is the clearest, purist translucent on the market. Pardo is particularly good if you want a translucent product. A lot of people don’t use it because it has limited stockists in the UK and it has a reputation of being a nightmare to condition, but if you can get past that and learn to work with that element it will reward you with some fantastic results. It takes texture really well and it is particularly good for making canes. It is unlike any clay you will have handled before. It comes in a wide range of colour palettes and it is sold in 56 g handy resealable packets. The curing creates a waxy bloom on the surface which can be wiped off immediately after curing. Pardo clay is made with natural beeswax sothere is no smell when it cures in the oven. Pardo is a German brand of clay, made by Viva Décor.
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