Glad you liked it!

Thanks!

Yep I use it a lot just give it time to evaporate away and it will be good to go for molding with silicone. Another thing you can do before smoothing is put your sculpt in the fridge or freezer over night. That will help get the clay extra firm.

It all depends on how you cast it. So your sculpt should be the max size you want something. For example when slush casting you can control the thickness pretty well. I usually do a one off casting to pull any junk left in the mold. That will be my trial thickness run to see where I need to give something more attention.

Yep! Naphtha is just a little more intense.

Set it outside to dry if I used a chemical on it then just toss it into the wash.

Are you wearing a respirator mask with the correct filters? The clay itself should be fine, you can make several passes with the metal kidney I used and smooth it out with heat after. The chemical is just a different method. As for molding and casting you usually want to keep to opposites. Like using silicone to make a hard mask or using plaster to make a latex or silicone mask. if you are molding and casting in the same material like plaster you more than likely wont get it to separate. Since you seem to have some health concerns I would talk to a doctor to see if silicone might be safe for you. there are a couple different versions of silicones and some Urethane rubbers. www.smooth-on.com/products/ You can also look into see latex or alginate might be a good medium to use. Smooth on does offer an msds sheet with all there products and on the website, that might allow you to see if any of those may be an option. Hope this helps!

@@Cullens_Workshop Thanks for the answer. Once upon a time, I used a mask with appropriate filters for spray painting. Unfortunately, it did not help much or nothing. Doctors have no idea what's wrong with me, so they won't tell you what chemical can harm me either. Most measures are harmful. Certainly those that are irritating. Others too, but less. I think alginates shouldn't hurt me when it comes to making a negative for the mold. Then casting in plaster. I just have to be careful with dust, but this is less of a problem (the mask helps). Silicones that smell like vinegar, I know they hurt me. However, silicone processor paste does not. Can alginates be recovered after curing? Someone did so by heating the aliniate in the microwave. He became fluid again.

yes! monster clay is the clay I'm using in this video.

@@Cullens_Workshop thanks so much this was so helpful