Review BeeSPutty Plastic Sculpting Clay

00:00:03 –> 00:00:08 Hi guys! It’s Cindy Lietz, your Polymer Clay Tutor in today’s PcT Product Demo. I’m going

00:00:08 –> 00:00:15 to show you all about a product called the BeeSPutty Plastic and it is an oven-hardening

00:00:15 –> 00:00:24 modeling putty that is meant for sculpting. Now, this is an unusual clay, the artist himself,

00:00:24 –> 00:00:33 he’s a sculptor his name is Stephan Nieheus Ellermann, sorry if I pronounced that wrong,

00:00:33 –> 00:00:39 he has a company called Studio Works and he is a sculptor and he– he lives in Germany

00:00:39 –> 00:00:47 and he’s designed a clay that will harden in the oven at a ver– a pretty low temperature

00:00:47 –> 00:00:52 actually, around the range that– that Fimo does but it has completely different properties.

00:00:52 –> 00:00:59 I’m going to show you a little bit about it, it has– it’s called BeeSPutty because it–

00:00:59 –> 00:01:08 it mimics it, it mimics beeswax so any of you that do sculpting– sculpting in bees

00:01:08 –> 00:01:15 wax, you’ll be able to be familiar with that– the type of property sits with it and it is–

00:01:15 –> 00:01:22 it’s a lot different than the polymer clays that I’ve ever worked with. It is stickier,

00:01:22 –> 00:01:28 it it had– it has it that a lot of different properties and let me just show you first

00:01:28 –> 00:01:35 how what it’s like in everything. OK, so he originally started off with some– with these

00:01:35 –> 00:01:42 kind of gray colors. They are– he’s got them in three different formulas and now he’s added

00:01:42 –> 00:01:51 a new one, one is the regular BeeSPutty and it is a gray color it is relatively soft once

00:01:51 –> 00:01:58 you start warming it up with your fingers. Then he’s got a firm version that is firmer

00:01:58 –> 00:02:06 and will hold a little bit finer detail and then he’s got a product called Summer Firm

00:02:06 –> 00:02:11 which will hold the pro–it’s even firmer and it will– even if your hands are really

00:02:11 –> 00:02:16 hot or the temperature that you’re working in is really hot, it doesn’t get too soft

00:02:16 –> 00:02:23 to work with so he’s got those three and those are typical for sculpting you know, all kinds

00:02:23 –> 00:02:27 of different sculptures. Let me just show you a picture first, I am NOT a sculptor myself–

00:02:27 –> 00:02:34 the most I’ve done in sculpting is with like sculpted flowers and sculpted beads and stuff

00:02:34 –> 00:02:44 but if you go to his website at beesputty.com, you can check out some of his pictures there

00:02:44 –> 00:02:50 but there’s a lot of these pieces were done by himself or by others and they’re highly-detailed

00:02:50 –> 00:02:59 sculptures of all kinds of faces and and different characters and things. It’s a very very neat

00:02:59 –> 00:03:07 plastic that I mean, putty that he’s–he’s designed here now he was doing his sculptures

00:03:07 –> 00:03:17 mostly in Epoxy Putty which is a two-part putty that you mix together to make your pieces,

00:03:17 –> 00:03:22 your armatures and and you’re different sculptures with but the problem with epoxies is that

00:03:22 –> 00:03:27 it hardens up rock hard and so you have to work with it really quickly and you can’t

00:03:27 –> 00:03:31 just leave your project sitting in there. Then he was also working with polymer clay,

00:03:31 –> 00:03:40 but polymer clay, when you sculpt with it, it doesn’t move the same way as working with

00:03:40 –> 00:03:44 beeswax. I guess beeswax is the nicest to work with, you can add layers, it’s sticky

00:03:44 –> 00:03:50 enough to add new pieces to it and to sculpt it and he just couldn’t get polymer clay to

00:03:50 –> 00:03:56 act that way. So he designed this product just for that and it’s really very neat. OK,

00:03:56 –> 00:04:03 so he has the three basic sculpting putties in the different forms then he has these other

00:04:03 –> 00:04:12 colors that he’s started to put together so he has three opaque colors: Opaque White,

00:04:12 –> 00:04:21 Bone and he’s got a new Gold clay and I wrote– I baked up all these different samples here

00:04:21 –> 00:04:27 and I rolled them out at different thicknesses so that we could see what it looked like and

00:04:27 –> 00:04:31 see the transparency of it. So here’s the white clay and you can see when it’s been

00:04:31 –> 00:04:36 baked up it doesn’t shift color at all and that’s partly because of the low– low temperature

00:04:36 –> 00:04:45 that is baked at which is a hundred and fifteen Celsius or 239 or 240 Fahrenheit. so that’s

00:04:45 –> 00:04:54 quite a low temperature but it bakes up quite firm, a little bit flexible here and I’ve

00:04:54 –> 00:05:00 got a sample we’ll test for actual strength in a minute but these colors here are–are

00:05:00 –> 00:05:06 very opaque so you can’t really see any light through them in their full dense rich colors.

00:05:06 –> 00:05:11 Now the bone here has a kind of little flexcksand stuff in it so if you’re working on a project

00:05:11 –> 00:05:17 that you really wanted to look like bone, it would be a great one to work with. Now,

00:05:17 –> 00:05:22 the gold here that they have has a lot of Mica in it and I don’t know if he’s going

00:05:22 –> 00:05:27 to be bringing in more colors with the metallics but it sure is beautiful it’s really rich

00:05:27 –> 00:05:39 and dense in the Opa–in the Pearl Metallic, Mica Powders and stuff then the rest of his

00:05:39 –> 00:05:46 color line is translucent. So, they’re all translucent based colors. Here is the white

00:05:46 –> 00:05:54 translucent, it is fantastic, it doesn’t– it doesn’t plaque at all if if you’re familiar

00:05:54 –> 00:06:00 with working with translucent clay is a lot of them will get what we call a plaquing or

00:06:00 –> 00:06:08 mooning where you get little marks in it where the– the clay kind of breaks away and flakes

00:06:08 –> 00:06:15 away on in the inside. So this, for the translucent clay here and also in the color that he’s

00:06:15 –> 00:06:21 got called Skin would make wonderful doll clay because it wouldn’t leave any little

00:06:21 –> 00:06:27 flaws in it. Also, I’m going to experiment more with it but it would make some of our

00:06:27 –> 00:06:31 Faux Stones and stuff would probably do very well with the translucent. I’ll just show

00:06:31 –> 00:06:37 you how thin– this is a very very thin piece here and we’ll just put on top of his print

00:06:37 –> 00:06:44 out here and you can see it’s quite translucent, it’s still quite frosted not totally clear

00:06:44 –> 00:06:48 like glass or anything but– but none of the polymer clay is that I’ve ever worked with

00:06:48 –> 00:06:54 are totally, totally clear but it’s really quite even and lovely looking. So he’s got

00:06:54 –> 00:07:01 a color here called Skin. Now you could tint your skin, obviously all skin isn’t the same

00:07:01 –> 00:07:06 color but you could attend to it using some of the Browns or the yellows or the whatever

00:07:06 –> 00:07:12 colors that you need to get your skin color. Here this color is called Brown, this one’s

00:07:12 –> 00:07:20 Black, this is called Pink, I would consider this one at magenta this is Red, Orange, Yellow,

00:07:20 –> 00:07:28 Green, Blue and Purple and they’re all just the basics and I did a quick little test to

00:07:28 –> 00:07:33 mix some of the colors together so i did one part of the Blue and one part of the Yellow

00:07:33 –> 00:07:38 and I got this really Dark Green color so the colors do mix really well so you can do

00:07:38 –> 00:07:45 lots of mixing and experimenting with it. You can see on some of these– some of these

00:07:45 –> 00:07:51 really thin colored pieces that they’re quite– quite translucent. I’ll hold it up to the

00:07:51 –> 00:07:56 light, hopefully you will be able to see you can see quite a bit of light through that.

00:07:56 –> 00:08:02 So you can get some very cool effects. I’m thinking that down this clay would work very

00:08:02 –> 00:08:11 nicely with doing flowers and sculpted pieces. Now, like I said, I’m not really a sculptor

00:08:11 –> 00:08:19 but I did make up just like a little branch here and baked it up it seems quite firm,

00:08:19 –> 00:08:26 it holds the detail quite well. I’ve got little lines on where the rings of the of the log

00:08:26 –> 00:08:31 are and you know, the little bark and stuff like that. So it holds it the detail really

00:08:31 –> 00:08:39 quite nicely and the neat thing about this clay is that it’s super sticky. For sculpting,

00:08:39 –> 00:08:47 that is a good feature because. Say you’re making a little tree or something and you

00:08:47 –> 00:08:53 want to add a new branch, you could, even after its baked, you can add another branch

00:08:53 –> 00:09:00 to it quite simply. I got pink out here so I wouldn’t normally put a pink branch on but

00:09:00 –> 00:09:07 why not. It sticks beautifully right to the to the baked clay to raw clay and you can

00:09:07 –> 00:09:15 add your pieces on really easily and it blends in really nicely and smoothly so it’s really

00:09:15 –> 00:09:23 neat to work with as far as adding pieces on. You can that– after its baked, so you

00:09:23 –> 00:09:28 can bake it as many times as you like so you can keep adding your features you could start

00:09:28 –> 00:09:35 off with an armature like a lot of sculptors do they have a wire armature you can cover

00:09:35 –> 00:09:43 it in your BeeSPutty, bake it and add new layers really really easily. Another thing

00:09:43 –> 00:09:51 is it, after it’s baked it you can carve it, you can drill it, you can sand it, it cuts

00:09:51 –> 00:09:58 really nicely with a knife so if you want to like remove parts of it or cut edges on

00:09:58 –> 00:10:06 it or carve at it you can do that really easily with a blade. So it’s got quite a nice density

00:10:06 –> 00:10:17 to it and another interesting feature is that it totally buffs up right after it’s been

00:10:17 –> 00:10:22 baked just with either a soft brush. He uses a like a to like a soft toothbrush to buff

00:10:22 –> 00:10:29 it up and get a shine on it but I actually found that a– just a cloth a piece of cloth

00:10:29 –> 00:10:36 or denim or anything will get a really nice shine on it really really quickly. So you–

00:10:36 –> 00:10:42 for your sculptures and things, all you need to do is you don’t even really have to finish

00:10:42 –> 00:10:48 it. All you need to do is just buff it, up get into the little detailed areas with with

00:10:48 –> 00:10:56 a brush and get a really neat waxy kind of shine to it. Now let’s just test for strength

00:10:56 –> 00:11:06 there I baked up a piece here at – what was it – 240 Fahrenheit so 115 Celsius and I baked

00:11:06 –> 00:11:15 it for the recommended half an hour and we’ve got up– it has broken they’re quite fairly

00:11:15 –> 00:11:21 easily, actually but he was telling me that if you bake it for longer so I’m going to

00:11:21 –> 00:11:27 have to bake it for longer than that to get some more strength with it, you will you can

00:11:27 –> 00:11:34 get more strength with it. He’s also got a new product that is baked at a slightly higher

00:11:34 –> 00:11:42 temperature, it’s called Summer Firm Extra I believe so extra firm and that one is supposed

00:11:42 –> 00:11:51 to be baked at 240 which is a little higher, I mean not 240, 140 Celsius so whatever that

00:11:51 –> 00:11:57 is Fahrenheit and apparently that is really very strong. We’ll try one of these thin pieces

00:11:57 –> 00:12:02 and see, oh yeah, that’s breaking – Oh too bad, maybe I should have big that when a little

00:12:02 –> 00:12:07 longer than 30 minutes but that’s something that I would have to test a little bit further

00:12:07 –> 00:12:14 to get a good handle on but any of you that are interested in sculpting and that kind

00:12:14 –> 00:12:21 of thing, this is a very unique product, it’s beautiful in the feel of it is really beautiful

00:12:21 –> 00:12:27 and I have enjoyed playing with it and getting to know it. Now, if you want to check out

00:12:27 –> 00:12:35 the product it is at beesputty.com and he’s in Germany he ships internationally and I

00:12:35 –> 00:12:40 think he has some distributors in other locations as well. So if you want to check that out.

00:12:40 –> 00:12:48 It is a little bit more expensive than regular polymer clay but it has the features that

00:12:48 –> 00:12:56 a sculptor would be very interested in. Alright, so I hope you found that helpful and if you

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