Twice Baking: Some basics

Good day folks!

I wanted to address twice baking basics for a couple of you to continue from our molded pot tutorial.

Twice Bake:
Did you know you can bake polymer clay several times?

When you are producing a item that has different levels of thickness such as a doll you will be baking your item a few times at different amounts. So the thick items get a longer bake then we add more features at a shorter bake.

This way your working with a solid piece you can hold and press into without warping the shape.

I had more pots but I had this massive enamel blowout yesterday, so less to show  =(**

 

Lets use a simple pot I picked up from a yard sale as a idea.

 

Now the pot above has simple shapes - a center ball, a base ring, a lid with ring rim and some handles. Think of this item and use its parts when thinking about baking a simple pot.

 

Bake a oval middle 1 bake - a lid 2 bakes - a couple of handles 3 bakes

So start with a simple shape, ball, oval.. bake your item.

 

Sand it a bit to prep it for additions

 

Cut a few shapes and twist them a bit as you like

 

Use some translucent liquid clay TLS for attaching some details

 

A dab will do 

 

Then you can attach the details as you like

 

SO here is a few progression pictures to show the process, We will bake sand and add details till we feel comfortable with holding the item. then bake in between.

 

 

Any other questions feel free to mail me or add in comments below, lets see what you make!