![]() ![]() These brands are very resistant to getting scorched. If you are using Premo or Cernit, then you don´t have to pay that much attention. Translucent Clays and special effect clays like Fimo Glitter, for example, can get scorched quite fast as well. These Brands can burn especially fast if you are not careful enough. You can see how to tent a polymer clay sculpture in this short video from “BeadyEyedBeth” here.īe especially careful if you are using Sculpey or Sculpey III. It is enough to fold a U-Shape out of the foil or the paper and then put it right over your sculpture to protect it from above. You also don´t have to cover it from all sites. Make sure, that the paper or the foil does not touch the polymer clay in any way. You can try to disperse this heat and protect your sculpture by putting a little aluminum foil or baking paper tend over your sculpture. A lot of the time most of the heat will come from the top of the oven. The heat in ovens is a lot of the time not evenly spread. This will ensure, that when the clay begins to show signs of scorching that you have more than enough time to react and take it out of the oven. You can also try to use a little less heat, then write on the package for your third or fourth bake. If you see any smoke or if a part of the sculpture is starting to get darker then you should take the sculpture out right away. To avoid any scorching it is important, that you keep a close eye on your sculpture while it is in the oven. This is normally not an issue as long as you follow the instructions on the package but if you want to bake it more than twice then this can become a little bit of a problem.Įspecially if you have a lot of thin parts on your sculpture or if your sculpture is generally a little smaller. You can see how I made a polymer clay sculpture of Link from the legend of Zelda where I baked several pieces of the sculpture multiple times in this video.īut Polymer clay can be scorched quite easily if you are not careful. Meaning that the temperature will harden it but it will not get soft in any way whatsoever. Polymer clay is a type of plastic, that is true, but it is a thermosetting plastic. Generally, you don´t need to worry, that your sculpture melts. But if you want to bake it more than twice, then things start getting a little more complicated. ![]() ![]() Baking Regular Polymer Clay More Than Twiceīaking regular polymer clay twice is almost never an issue. I have a complete beginner’s guide on how to work with polymer clay that you can read right here if you want to learn more. If you want to bake your polymer clay more than twice though, then you should maybe read on because depending on the type of clay and the brand things may be a little more complicated.Īnd if you have a special kind of clay-like effect clay (glitter for example) or if you are using translucent clay, then you may want to read on as well because these clays can be a little harder to bake more than once as well. You can find the right temperature for your polymer clay brand on the package or you can check out my polymer baking guide where I list the baking times of the most common polymer clay brands. The two things that you should be careful about are the correct temperature and that the sculpture has already cooled down completely before you bake it again. If you are using a special kind of polymer clay though, then you should read on because they may be a little harder to bake more than once. If you just wanted to bake your regular polymer clay a second time because you did something wrong the first time or because you added something to the existing already hardened sculpture then you can simply go ahead and bake it a second time without any issues. Some brands of polymer clay can react poorly if they are baked multiple times. It’s only important, that the clay cools down completely before it is baked again and the temperature has to be correct. In short, polymer clay can be baked twice or even more times than that without any complications. So I decided to put that to the test and see if there are any side effects of baking polymer clay more than once. ![]() So it is not surprising, that one question, that I get all the time, is if it has any negative impact on the clay itself if it is baked multiple times. For example, if you want to create a very complex sculpture and you need parts of the sculpture to be hardened already before you can continue to work on it or you simply didn´t bake the clay enough the first time around and you want to bake it a second time to harden it properly. There are a lot of reasons why you would want to bake polymer clay twice or even more than that. ![]()
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