Hi all,
I've lurked for a while and always managed to find answers to my queries on here, but I've not been able to find much on this subject. Apologies if it's already been answered somewhere.
I'm interested in getting some WED clay to make sculpts for masks, and I've seen people use Krylon Crystal Clear spray to seal the stuff before making a mould. Unfortunately even a tiny bottle of Krylon seems to be around £30 here in the UK. Has anyone found a cheaper alternative?
I also wondered if WED is reusable once the mould's been made? I assume people are spraying it while it's still damp/leather-hard-skinned, otherwise I have no idea how they're then extracting it from plaster moulds! So - after pulling the sculpt from the new mould - can you clean off the sealer and reconstitute the bits of WED that have dried, or do you have to buy a new batch of WED each time?
My experience so far is:
1. Sculpting in normal pottery clay (great for roughing out big shapes then refining) and making a mould in plaster from it while the clay's still wet (and therefore reusable once scraped out of the mould).
2. Sculpting in monsterclay (great for detail work, but a right pain for getting larger smooth surfaces, especially when the house is freezing...) and making a mould in silicone.
With the WED I hope to be able to get that fast, roughing out-ness that I love about pottery clay, but then cast in silicone and still be able to reuse the clay afterwards. Am I just wishing for a magical solution that doesn't really exist?
Hope you can help!
Rachel
I've lurked for a while and always managed to find answers to my queries on here, but I've not been able to find much on this subject. Apologies if it's already been answered somewhere.
I'm interested in getting some WED clay to make sculpts for masks, and I've seen people use Krylon Crystal Clear spray to seal the stuff before making a mould. Unfortunately even a tiny bottle of Krylon seems to be around £30 here in the UK. Has anyone found a cheaper alternative?
I also wondered if WED is reusable once the mould's been made? I assume people are spraying it while it's still damp/leather-hard-skinned, otherwise I have no idea how they're then extracting it from plaster moulds! So - after pulling the sculpt from the new mould - can you clean off the sealer and reconstitute the bits of WED that have dried, or do you have to buy a new batch of WED each time?
My experience so far is:
1. Sculpting in normal pottery clay (great for roughing out big shapes then refining) and making a mould in plaster from it while the clay's still wet (and therefore reusable once scraped out of the mould).
2. Sculpting in monsterclay (great for detail work, but a right pain for getting larger smooth surfaces, especially when the house is freezing...) and making a mould in silicone.
With the WED I hope to be able to get that fast, roughing out-ness that I love about pottery clay, but then cast in silicone and still be able to reuse the clay afterwards. Am I just wishing for a magical solution that doesn't really exist?
Hope you can help!
Rachel