I enjoy making things. I can make things with wood or metal or even digitally with Photoshop. But lately I was developing the urge to sculpt something. Since this was the first time I considered using clay to sculpt something I had no idea where to begin. I picked up a 5 pound box of sculpting clay from a hobby store going out of business and dove right in.

It was fun to form and make things like monster heads and small animal figurines. But when I decided a couple of these brick-a-brack were worthy to be saved I tried to take the next step and harden those creations. Sheesh! 2000 degrees for hours and hours for fire them!

I looked into making my own backyard kiln, but compared to the few trinkets I wanted to fire the time and materials involved would be staggering. And there were precious few places around the neighborhood that rented kiln time.

Into the closet with the 5 pound box of pottery clay. Maybe someday. A while later I chanced upon Super Sculpey Clay. What a great find! Handles very well, not too soft nor too hard. Has a long shelf life without special conditions (ask me what happened to my 5 pound ROCK after a couple of months sitting in the closet). And it can be baked hard in an ordinary kitchen oven in little time.

Ok, I thought, let’s get started! I wanted to make something right away but usually when I made a deer or some other object the unsupported parts would begin to sag and droop even before I got it finished enough to get to the baking staqe. I searched Youtube for different ideas until I came upon this video. I got all my ideas lined up and finally had a notion of how to execute my first sculpture.

This is a GREAT video to watch and learn if you are just starting out with polymer clay modeling. Watch and see and I am sure you will agree, this is a great foundation to build upon.