CREATIVE CLAYS FOR CREATIVE PEOPLE

By Garie Sim, Garie's Creations
Singapore's foremost polymer clay artist & instructor

Product Guide

SCULPEY Products consist of many exciting and different ranges, starting with Sculpey, Super Sculpey, Sculpey III, Granitex, Premo Sculpey, Sculpey SuperFlex and Super Elasticlay. They are all nontoxic, man-made modeling clay materials, it won't dry out when exposed to air and it feel like ceramic. The clay come in over 90 colors and become permanently hard after baking.


Sculpey original polymer clay, most economical it is easy to condition and ideal for basic sculpture and moderate detail. The clay come in white and terra cotta colors.


Super Sculpey is the ultimate sculpting compound, used by movie animation studios and professionals worldwide for prototypes, maquettes and all kinds of dolls. Its excellent tooling qualities make it the preferred choice for casting and all types of sculpture. The translucent effect of the Super Sculpey make it ideal fo creating realistic figurines. When baked and cooled it can be sanded, drilled, carved and painted with water based acrylic colors.


Sculpey III is a very popular clay and is soft to use without too much kneading. Fun and easy modeling medium, bakes hard with a smooth matte finish in a ordinary home oven. Its softness can be rolled cut and extruded through the Sculpey Clay Gun.


Granitex is the clay that you can take for granite! Tiny fibers mixed into the clay creates unusual stone like effect, that you can imitate nature, excellent for diorama little waterfall, miniature landscaping and creates flooring for dollhouses, adds great touch to jewelry, home decor that are easy to condition and tool. Availiable in 8 color effects.


Premo Sculpey is the premium polymer clay.The consistency of the clay texture makes it perfect for all applications. It is firm, smooth texture, durablity after baking, great for creating millefiore. The clay when kneaded does crumble easily. It is densely saturated colors create perfect shade and colors. Premo Sculpey are availiable in 32 colors.


Sculpey SuperFlex is bendable and flexible! It come in 8 colors and this colorful version takes you to another level of clay creation. Your creation remain rubbery and bendable after baking, combining with the other Sculpey makes excellent puppets with bendable joints. Fun medium for kids, create springed or pop-up model design.


Super Elasticlay is ideal for making flexible one sided molds, extra soft and pliable to shape around even the most intricate detail. After baking it is permanently flexible, you can pour plaster of paris to create relief or used it as a push mold for polymer clay. Can used for repairing picture frames and create molds of your favorite creations.

Polymer clays are nontoxic, man-made modeling materials that work and feel like ceramic clay, it would not dry out when exposed to the air. The clays can be bake in a regular or toaster oven at a temperature of 275 F or 130 C as compared to ceramic clays which are fired in a kiln at 1500 F. Once baked polymer clay can be sand, carve, drill, buff and re-bake eg.(when required to replace or duplicate broken feature to your creations).


Polymer clays are availiable in more than 50 colors including many other interesting and exciting, glow in the dark clays, elastic clays and textured clays. There are many options for artists, crafters and kids in using polymer clay, you can combined them with other materials and accessories to enrich your creations. Modeling with polymer clay can be time-consuming, but it is your passport to a rich and imaginative world of shapes, textures and colors. It will certainly help you to become a less stressful person.


Polymer clays can help children develop fine motor skills and improve hand eye coordination. It motivates, encourages interaction, and turns the conceptual into reality.


Polymer clays work well with surfaces like paper, aluminium foils, glass, ceramic, marble, granite, do not work well with plastic and finished wood surfaces. You can paint your models or creations with acrylic water based paints. Varnishing your clay creations with water based glaze (matt or shine) will improve the clay model and also removed some of your finger prints. When gluing polymer clays, used super glue gel or if you are experience liquid super glue. Beside super glue you can also use plastic cement, silicon glue and hot melt glue guns.

BAKING GUIDE

Sculpey clay baking temperature of 275 F/130 C 15 minutes to harden, depending on the size of your creations, if the thickness exceed more than 20mm or 1 inch you might need more than 30 minutes.


Super Sculpey clay baking temperature of 275 F/130 C 15 minutes to harden, depending on the size of your creation, if the thickness exceed more than 20mm or 1 inch you might need more than 30 minutes.


Sculpey III clay baking temperature of 275 F/130 C 15 minutes to harden, depending on the size of your creation, if the thickness exceed more than 20mm or 1 inch you might need more than 30 minutes.


Granitex Sculpey clay baking temperature of 275 F/130 C 15 minutes to harden, depending on the size of your creation, if the thickness exceed more than 20mm or 1 inch you might need more than 30 minutes.


Premo Sculpey clay baking temperature of 275 F/130 C 30 minutes to harden, depending on the size of your creation, if the thickness exceed more than 20mm or 1 inch you might need more than 60 minutes.


Sculpey SuperFlex clay baking temperature of 275 F/130 C 20 minutes to harden, depending on the size of your creation, if the thickness exceed more than 20mm or 1 inch you might need more than 40 minutes.


Sculpey Super Elasticlay baking temperature of 275 F/130 C 20 minutes to harden, depending on the size of your creation, if the thickness exceed more than 20mm or 1 inch you might need more than 40 minutes