Multiple bakes? Well, unlike food, which has to be baked just so, or it will burn, polymer clay can be baked several times. As long as the temperature is not too high, it will not burn at all. You can *underbake* it, but not *overbake* it. The result is that you can bake things in layers. Figures like this take advantage of that, because you can bake it in stages, lending the strength of the finished product to the underlayers as you add to it. For example, eyes, I have baked a couple of dozen little round white eyeballs which can be inserted into the face without squishing. And you can position the body, so that it holds its shape as you add the arms, head, hair, etc. I baked Pip in four stages: torso and legs, shirt, then arms and head, and finally hair. Then I painted the pupils of the eyes.
It's not hard at all. But don't let the oven temp get too high--it *can* burn that way, and the fumes are dangerous if it does. But at between 260 to 275 degrees, it's not gonna burn.
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Date: 2005-08-14 06:40 am (UTC)Well, unlike food, which has to be baked just so, or it will burn, polymer clay can be baked several times. As long as the temperature is not too high, it will not burn at all. You can *underbake* it, but not *overbake* it. The result is that you can bake things in layers. Figures like this take advantage of that, because you can bake it in stages, lending the strength of the finished product to the underlayers as you add to it. For example, eyes, I have baked a couple of dozen little round white eyeballs which can be inserted into the face without squishing. And you can position the body, so that it holds its shape as you add the arms, head, hair, etc. I baked Pip in four stages: torso and legs,
shirt, then arms and head, and finally hair. Then I painted the pupils of the eyes.
It's not hard at all. But don't let the oven temp get too high--it *can* burn that way, and the fumes are dangerous if it does. But at between 260 to 275 degrees, it's not gonna burn.