Another method is to use a piece of polyester quilt batting. Batting is a great tool, too, if you work with sculpture and need to support parts of your piece during baking. Just use lots of polyester fiberfill to prop it all up.
One thing to note about using paper, though. But if excessive amounts of plasticizer are leached out, it might weaken your piece. Translucent and light colors of polymer clay are very susceptible to turning brown during baking. This is not an indication of burning and is not dangerous, but it is frustrating.
Before we get to those, though, make sure that you are baking at the right temperature and are covering your pieces during baking to prevent the heating element from damaging your work. Here are a few other things you can try. Another strategy to protect your polymer clay from the heat of the oven is to bury them in baking soda bicarbonate of soda during baking.
Other people use cornstarch or salt. To do this, just pour an oven-safe bowl of your favorite powder, dig a hole, and put your beads inside. Put the whole thing in the oven to bake. After baking, you will need to rinse the powder off the beads. The plasticizer can possibly leach out of the beads, leaving them brittle. Higher temperatures and longer bake times lead to more browning. So reducing the temperature or the duration of baking can solve the problem of browning.
You need to bake long and hot enough to be fully cured and strong. Try the other strategies first, and if you still have unacceptable browning, then try experimenting with the time and temperature of baking.
Plaques are whitish areas that appear in the middle of a piece of polymer clay after curing. If you live at a high altitude, then you already know that the laws of physics can do some strange things to your baking times and temperatures. Because baking times for food needs to be adjusted at high altitudes, many people assume this is the same for polymer clay. It is not. There is no water in polymer clay, so the air pressure differences of altitude are irrelevant.
Do not use a microwave to cure polymer clay. Read more about if you can bake polymer clay in the microwave in my article about it here. For some reason, there is a controversy about using boiling water to cure polymer clay.
Blame physics. Now some people will say that boiling for a long time does give a complete cure for polymer clay. I am very, very skeptical of this. However, I can conceive of why you might want to boil a polymer clay sculpture, for instance, to allow the water to support the item long enough to partially cure.
This might be helpful with complex thin projections or pieces that would ordinarily be too floppy to bake without the support of the water. You would then fully bake the item at a proper temperature in the oven. A heat gun is a valuable tool for working with polymer clay. You can spot cure polymer clay with a heat gun but you have to be very, very careful to keep the gun moving at all times and not get too close to the clay. Heat guns produce enough heat to scorch and burn polymer clay causing it to blister and turn black and produce irritating fumes.
Yes, I hang my head in shame here. I have done this. You might use this technique if using liquid clay to assemble a sculpture, for instance. Cynthia Tinapple does use a heat gun to cure her polymer in place in the wooden bowls she creates with her husband Blair Davis.
But she also uses a digital thermometer to make sure the clay is actually reaching curing temperature. You should have a pretty good idea of how to bake polymer clay. Now go make something beautiful! This article was Part 3 of a series on Baking Polymer Clay. You will LOVE getting this email, which is packed full of polymer clay goodness. About once a week. Hi there! They seem cured fine, flexible and nice but badly burnt.
Same time and temp I normally use for projects without translucent. Your oven definitely is curing way too hot. Please do some experiments and use a thermometer to make sure that your oven is curing at the correct temperature and staying there through the entire baking cycle. Also, always cover your clay. It does make a difference!
Thank you for such an informative website! Premo, as you know has the same temperature setting as Sculpy , however, it also suggests double the baking time than Sculpy Which time should I use? Does it depend on how much product of each was used? Thank you for your help! You can easily bake any clay brand longer as long as the temperature is correct.
Mix them together and bake as with Premo. I am baking my items exactly as you have suggested on a ceramic tile in a foil pan with an inverted foil pan cover clipped together. Hit the clay with a mallet.
Knead the clay. You can add oil or hand lotion. But never add more than a drop or two. If the clay is dry enough to need more, use liquid clay or clay softener. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
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Cookie Settings. Learn why people trust wikiHow. Download Article Explore this Article methods. Tips and Warnings. Related Articles. Article Summary. Method 1. Use a needle to recreate a vent hole if your model has an air pocket. For models that have a closed-off pocket of air, include a vent hole to prevent cracking due to temperature changes in the oven.
Pierce the clay with a needle all the way through until you reach the inner air pocket. Be sure to pierce at least 1 hole for each air pocket to ensure proper venting.
For example, many clay models of animals have an air pocket inside to make them lighter. Read the directions on the package to locate the baking temperature. Most brands have the amount of temperature labeled on the package, which can range from Check the packaging to see if the baking temperature changes based on the thickness of the clay, and set the temperature on the oven. Place the clay on a ceramic baking dish.
While the oven heats up, transfer your clay model onto a piece of oven-safe ceramic. You can use a baking dish, like a ceramic pie dish, or even a ceramic tile. Avoid using metal or glass, which tend to fluctuate in temperature.
Bake the clay immediately after painting or glazing. Adding a glaze or paint might add to the baking time of your model. In general, for each coat or paint or glaze, add minutes onto the baking time. Bake the clay for the amount of time specified on the package. Most brands of clay have a bake time somewhere between minutes, depending on the thickness and color of the clay. Fill a large bowl with ice and water while the clay is baking.
Get a large cooking pot or bucket that will fit your clay model. Then, fill it with ice water, with about 2 inches 5. You want the clay to be completely submerged in the water, so try to use as large of a pot as possible. This material softens a bit in the oven before the polymerization process is complete. This can cause flat, shiny spots if you're baking on a hard surface.
To keep the shape that you want, you need to rest your beads on a surface that conforms to the bead or support it without resting it on a flat surface. I like these beading racks because they fit easily into a standard toaster oven. They come with thick wire bead supports that also work well for making holes to thread beading wire through. Alternate support methods for baking polymer projects are:. Lay them in a bowl filled with baking soda and partially cover them.
After baking, clean with running water. Rest the beads on paper 'troughs' folded from white, matte finish cardstock. Just in case you're wondering, my little pink dragon was made by the talented Kathy Davis. Many people pre-heat a glazed not terra cotta tile and then transfer their creation on to it for baking using a sheet of ordinary white paper or matt finish cardstock like the back of an index card.
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