Worblas Crystal Art - 90g

Worbla's Crystal Art - easy plastic to decorate your Worbla.

Worbla’s Crystal Art is the newest product to the Worbla lineup, offering a moldable, sculptable translucent plastic that can be used for gems, water effects, light diffusing and so much more!

Worbla’s Crystal Art is similar to Worbla’s Deco Art: it comes in pellet form. You heat these pellets with a heat gun or other heat source to 110°C and once activated, you can blend the pellets into a translucent workable material. Unlike Deco Art, Crystal Art remains translucent once cool, and thinner pieces are flexible.

It allows you to create incredibly flexible pieces:

• ice crystals that will bend with a bodysuit
• claws that will flex but never break no matter how many steps you take

Crystal Art can be rolled out to thin strips or sculpted into simple shapes or pressed into molds and blended with other Worbla products for limitless potential.

Unlike Deco Art, Crystal Art has a much higher activation temperature and thermal conductivity. In short: it’s hot! We suggest working with heat resistant gloves with latex or nitrile gloves overtop, and keeping your gloves and tools wet so that Crystal Art doesn’t stick to things or you. Crystal Art also has a memory like rubber, which means if it is stretched out and cooled, when re-heated it will want to ‘rebound’ to a more compressed shape. Keep this in mind when sculpting!

Worbla's Crystal Art can be coloured with acrylic paint. Mix colour thoroughly while pellets are hot until no residue is left or colour can be painted on afterwards. Always test colour in a small sample Crystal Art to ensure it blends and dries without staining.