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Sculpting with Air Dry Clay: Tips and Materials

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Sofia Bue

Sculpting a "Potplant Creature" in AIR DRYING CLAY.
For this project I will be using AIR DRY clay as my primary medium, build around a ALUMINUM armature. After sculpting, the clay need to air dry for 45 days before its ready for painting. It DOES NOT need to be fired or molded.

MATERIALS and TOOLS used, and where you can get them:

AIR DRY CLAY:
in this video I used PEBEO air dry clay https://amzn.to/3goSgFu.
Though, per 2022 my new favorite is DAS which you cant find here: https://amzn.to/3rgW1TB)
ARMATURE:
Aluminium Mire (gauge 10 / 3.2mm diameter) https://amzn.to/3oivPGh
Aluminium Wire (gauge 6 / 4.9mm diameter) https://amzn.to/34qcX0Q
Aluminium Wire Mesh https://amzn.to/3okXfev
PLYERS
STEEL KNEAD IT https://amzn.to/34AwZFZ
(Or other epoxy putty eg. https://amzn.to/3Gt1CKK)
WOODEN BASE
BALL BEARINGS (or marbles) for eyes (eg. https://amzn.to/330479Y)
Variety of SCULPTING TOOLS, eg:
Stainless Steel Sculpting Tools https://amzn.to/3gfE6GD
Loop Tools https://amzn.to/34rUHnL
Silicone tip / dotting tools https://amzn.to/34sQe4w

The above product links are affiliated that means if you purchase anything via one of these links, Amazon will pay me a small commission. It won’t cost you anything extra but it's a huge help for me and my channel :) I’ll only ever provide links to products I use myself and can stand by.

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