greetings, my names Keith. I would really appreciate some advice on what clay to use. I need a air dry clay. The one i use now, seems to want to crack like crazy when it dries. If you have any advice on stopping that from happening, i would greatly appreciate it also. At the moment I am using Amico air dry clay. I also start of with foam as my base and build it off that. Please let me know what works for you, made some amazing sculptures but the cracking ruins them.
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Keith Rondini
Jul 01, 2018
Air dry clay advice
Air dry clay advice
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Greetings Keith,
We do not utilize air drying clays, as we prefer the properties of traditional clays that require firing. Vitrification is a good thing.
However all clays other than polymer clays have some shrinkage when drying; it seems that your clay is shrinking when drying and your’ armature is not.
I have no kiln to fire the clay. So I’m stuck with air dry. I’ve heard of putting a plastic bag over the sculpter to help slow down the drying process which I heard makes it crack less.