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Last time I ever use Water Based clay...


Ugh.....Well, because I couldn't get the materials for molding quick enough, my sculpt dryed out...I'm gonna try and salvage it, but it's pretty depressing after all the time and effort I put into it. This is the first cowl I've ever sculpted, but I still wanted to do a cast of it. Don't know exactly what I'm gonna do with it now.

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You certainly just can't leave a water based clay alone for an extended period of time, but there are a few things you can do to prolong it. Use a spray bottle to moisten it every time you are done working on the sculpt for that day. Cover it with a plastic bag, keeping it reasonably air tight as well.

My last sculpt was done in Wed clay, I spent about two months working on it and had only one problem with it cracking, but that was an area where I had severed it completely and reattached it. In fact, once the mold was done I kept the sculpt for a long time afterwards with just keeping the bag on it.

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How long has the clay been air drying. If its leather hard meaning there is still some moisture its damp feeling, kinda cold to the touch. If so you can probably recover the sculpture, however if its bone dry usually dusty its probably not going to help to add clay because the moisture from the new clay will be sucked out from the bone dry. Have you already added clay? Is that what those lumps are.

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It's definetly not bone dry. I've been spraying it with a spray bottle of water everytime I worked on it. When I was done working on it I always covered it with a bag. I'd been covering it with saran wrap and a bag to really keep in the moisture. I'm probably just gonna work on it and get it back to where it was.

The clumps of clay in certain spots I put there because that's where the cracks were developing. I was hoping it would slow the process some.

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Another thought, what is teh base you are working off of? Plaster will suck out the moisture too. Sealing it can help with that. Not sure of that is what you are using, but just thought it may help.

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quote:

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Another thought, what is teh base you are working off of? Plaster will suck out the moisture too. Sealing it can help with that. Not sure of that is what you are using, but just thought it may help.



Nah, my armature is made out of polyfoam. Here's the link to it.


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Its a good rule of thumb to cover you sculpture with damp or wet paper towels depending on how long your leaving it. To work the cracks you need to slip and score to allow new clay to stay and cooperate with the clay. Overlaying the new clay and working it to an even level. It would also be good to create a slurry for the additions of new clay.

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nahhh

don't bother to save it
knock it all off and resculpt it again from scratch
you'll be surprised at how fast you can redo it because of the new motivation and how fresh the piece is in your mind

and wet paper towels is a must between the times that you sculpt and when it is allowed to sit



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nahhh

don't bother to save it
knock it all off and resculpt it again from scratch
you'll be surprised at how fast you can redo it because of the new motivation and how fresh the piece is in your mind

and wet paper towels is a must between the times that you sculpt and when it is allowed to sit




Yeah, I was thinking of doing that as well. Truthfully, I really wanted to sculpt a Tim Sale cowl. Something with looonnnngg ears. I think I'd get a lot more enjoyment out of that anyway.

On a side note, when it comes to doing a cast in urethane, how much do you guys find you need to do a pull for a cowl in urethane? I'm just trying to gauge how many gallons I should get. I know I won't need a whole gallon for just one cowl, but I'd like to have a decent amount of urethane on reserve for other projects.

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This has also been a tremendous learning experiance for me. I'm sure that if I started over, I'd be able to finish it much quicker this time around.

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