Fine art sculpture

Price: £9.27
Type: Earthenware/Stoneware
Method: Throwing, Modelling, Handbuilding, Sculpture
Colour: Buff
Texture: Smooth
Pack: 12.5kg

A good dual purpose earthenware and stoneware clay. Popular in schools for its tolerance and smooth texture. Good as an inexpensive modelling clay. Not recommended for reduction firing or large pieces.

Price £11.09
Type: Earthenware
Method: Throwing, Modelling, Handbuilding
Colour: Red
Texture: Medium textured
Pack: 12.5kg

A blend of red marls with 20% grog addition to provide "tooth". An excellent body for slab-building, tiles and outdoor pots. Produces resilience in frost conditions.

Price £25.00
Working Time: 10 Minutes
Demould Time: 13 Minutes
Shelf Life: 6 Months

Herculite 2 Plaster is a good hard casting plaster. It has a quick set time that makes it popular when fast demoulding is required and makes it ideal for smaller casts. Whiter than other lower grade plasters, which makes it popular for casting plaster models, figurines, etc.

Price: £1.20 (per 100g)

Silicon Bronze

Contact the sculpture technician to calculate the weight of your bronze before purchasing

Price £2.10 (per 100g), £21.00 (per kg)

Please discuss your mould making with the sculpture technician before purchasing.

Silicone rubber is a flexible mould making material especially good for casting wax, plaster and cements. Silicone rubber captures brilliant mould detail and is best suited for making smaller moulds or thin painted on moulds (for larger works).

Price: £7.41 (per kg)

Only purchase if you intend to keep your mould and not recycle it.

Please discuss your mould making with the sculpture technician before purchasing.

Vinyl Hot Rubber is a flexible moulding material best suited for moulds which are larger and/or require less detail.

Can be used to cast wax, plaster and concrete

Price: £10.00

Fast Set Alginate is more appropriate for moulding body parts like hands that do not require it being spread onto.

Alginate is a flexible impression material, suitable for hand application onto skin. Alginate quickly produces a single-use mould, and is typically used for body casting as it is a skin-safe moulding material.

Alginate is pale yellow in colour, with a pleasant peppermint scent in use. As a guide, one 550g pack is sufficient to mould two adult hands in full.

Mixing Time: 1 minute
Set Time: 2 minutes

£4.00 per metre

Wire netting for making sculpture support structures, usually used in combination with fibrous plaster work or other mediums.

£5.00 per metre

Assorted scrap steel - bar, box section etc

Used for fabricated steel sculpture, armatures for modelled sculpture and forging.

Price: £10.00

Slow Set Alginate is better for using where slightly more time is needed to apply it. Used more often where it is being used to spread onto a section of the body.

Alginate is a flexible impression material, suitable for hand application onto skin. Alginate quickly produces a single-use mould, and is typically used for body casting as it is a skin-safe moulding material.

Alginate is pale yellow in colour, with a pleasant peppermint scent in use. As a guide, one 550g pack is sufficient to mould two adult hands in full.

Mixing Time: 1 minute
Set Time: 4 minutes

Price : £0.40 (per metre)

Round aluminium wire for making lightweight armatures, can be cut and bent by hand

Price £1.25 each

Mod-Roc Plaster Bandage is a plaster impregnated bandage, ideal for making hard lightweight shells, jackets or structures. Best applied over a form or sculpture of wire. Perfect for 3D sculpture, scenery sets, etc. Can be easily painted.

Price £12.00
Working Time: 20 Minutes
Demould Time: 25 Minutes
Shelf Life: 9 Months

Fine Casting Plus is produced from naturally occurring high-purity gypsum mineral. Off-white in colour, Fine Casting Plus plaster is used for the production of decorative fibrous plasterwork and in general casting applications.

Price £6.47
Type: Earthenware
Method: Throwing, Modelling, Casting
Colour: Red
Texture: Smooth
Pack: 12.5kg

A highly plastic blend of Etruria Marls. A good general purpose red clay, very popular due to its price and plastic characteristics. Especially good for modelling and throwing. For larger thrown work choose 1000 - Swan Blend.