How To Repair Ceramic Figurine

Ron used artist s acrylic colors beginning with white.

How to repair ceramic figurine.

I am partial to angel figurines and have actually found some nice ones in the dollar store but they were a bit too colorful for me pink cheeks and so on. In this case after discussing with the owner it made more sense and lower cost to repaint all the details after it was mechanically restored and painted with a base color glaze. Click picture for lesson details. So following an idea i had first seen in a urban outfitters display i have sprayed them white or as i did recently use off white craft paint to paint in the colored parts of the figurine.

Apply epoxy mix to one side using a pintool or a wooden stick. Fill the crack with caulk and wipe away the excess with a wet paper towel. Always select a spray on lacquer as brush strokes will be obvious on porcelain particularly glazed porcelain. Ron wrapped sandpaper around a dowel and removed the tool marks and blended the filler with the ceramic edges.

Place even amounts of 5 minutes clear epoxy where to purchase on a paper or cardboard pad. I researched it and found that the most important thing in her setting was to make sure all the glue that had been used to attempt to fix it was removed. Fully subtitled so if you don t like the music hit the mute or play your own. He switched to a very fine paper for the final smoothing.

This is a cheap and easy way to fix a broken ceramic statue using polymer clay. Use only enough adhesive to cover the edge. Repairing and restoring sculpture with missing parts. He thinned the paint with water to make the paint brush on more smoothly.

9 ceramic sculpture repair lesson how to. This christmas i visited my mother and she had mother mary lenox porcelain figurine with a broken hand. Allow the primer to dry before continuing. Paint the ceramic piece with primer.

Primers act as bonding agents that hold paint in place. 10 broken plaster sculpture repair. You can use silicone caulking in place of clay for filling in cracks. Porcelain figurines repair and restoration example.

Adding missing miniature part e g missing finger using pins for strength. This figurine arrived very broken and with missing pieces and had high sentemental value to the owner. Mix epoxy well with a pin tool paper clip or a wooden stick.