You deserve so many more subscribers...this was incredible....you have a lovely, natural manner, along with a talent for teaching/explanation...made it seem like I could start a project with very few concerns!
Fantastic video, loved the depth of detail related to pulling this off. I have never seen the aluminium foil process before, looks almost too simple. Your clay Pal Tiya is amazing, you have shown here how versatile this material is. I can't think of anything else like this. I bet this will have a lot more people take up a sculpting challenge. I loved the use of the dust pan brush for the final texture, so many good tips in this video, thanks Kim for your time and showing us your sculpting processes.
Thanks so much for your feedback Leo. We have heaps more project and video ideas planned. We're currently very busy since we've (just) begun production here in new Zealand. We'll keep you posted.
I look forward to becoming your first Pal Tiya Distributor/Representative/Educator in the USA in Nov. I can't wait to start working with it. I will do all in my power to champion this sculpting technique and medium. I love it when inventor/artists make it look easy.
Do you mean Kim in Movies? Or our pal Tiya material in Movies? A thing we've noticed over 30 years of making Movie props, is that so many iconic outdoor movie set-pieces degrade terribly over time. Most of them are still hand-sculpted in polystyrene, and at best sprayed with 'hard-coat' or polyurethane. Which cracks & peels after a few years out in the elements. That's also part of what Pal Tiya excels at. Making thin-shelled but very strong and weather-resistant sculptural pieces. Even using polystyrene sculpture as a 'core'. Also, Kim IS in movies - just not in 'front' of the camera. She worked on Armour & props in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit Movies.
Hi Kim, just letting you no that I am using a similar design like this dragon but it is smaller, I used a different type of clay to make it and I am using a different design for the scales on the skull. I just wanted to let you no because I didn't want you to get angry but give you full credit for the design and you inspire me a lot. Thank you so much and have a great day
Thank you so much for telling us about this Angelina. Kim will be quite happy enough to hear she inspired you. There can NEVER be too many Dragons in the world♫. BTW, we are officially launching Pal Tiya in the USA tomorrow. To celebrate we will be posting a wonderful video of Kim sculpting a FULL dragon out of our material. (we're really excited♪)
Pal Tiya-oh my god I loved it I just watched it and that dragon looks amazing thank you sooooooo much for responding and I can send you a picture of the finished dry clay Dragon Skull if you want but I have to get your email, if you don't want to show everyone your email that's fine. But anyway thank you so much and keep up the great work and Hope you Have a great day and bye!!😜😜
Hi Kim, just letting you no that the Dragon Skull that I made at school exploded in the oven/kiln and my teacher said that it is not glueable but I can always try... I haven't seen the dragon pieces yet but i still want to try and glue it back together but I fortunately I have some photos of the Dragon Skull. Hope you have a great day Thanks Angelina
Marvelous, Kim! Found you through Punished Props with Bill and Britt Doran. Love Pal Tiya. What a wonderful material. Been using Laguna Clay EM 210 for years and need to try Pal Tiya!
Thanks for making this tutorial! I enjoyed every minute of it. I haven't heard of pal tiya before. I've began polymer sculpting and the aluminum armature part to it I am familiar with. But being that this piece can be placed outdoors, I am highly interested in learning more about this medium.
HI Kim, You probably don't remember me. I met you over a decade ago in Seattle. I was involved with the Seattle Art Car Blowout and Freemont Solstice Festival. I had the opportunity along with others to see your studio. You were working on a huge dragon. Anyway I thought I would stop in and say hi. Cool video and medium.
Kim asked us to apologize sincerely that she will miss you. She has only just left Seattle back to home in Wellington New Zealand. But she will be back in the USA early in the new year. And making more things with our material.
Nossa! Que trabalho lindo que você faz, estou incatada! Gostaria de saber o que é Pal Tiya? É argila? Obrigada está de parabéns. Wow! What a beautiful job you do, I'm soothed! Would you like to know what Pal Tiya is? Is it clay? Thank you, Congratulations.
if you leave the sculpture fully exposed to the air for a few weeks, are you still able to work on it after this time as long as you have a rough surface? Or does it need to be covered during this time? I'm planning on making a fairly large sculpture but its not something I will be able to do all at once.
Have a look at our third video on this page: www.paltiya.com/getstarted - sorry YT has been hiding all of our comments for ages so we're only just seeing this!!
This is such great information. Answering so many questions for me. Absolutely incredible product you’ve developed! ⚡️🙌👏 Really looking forward to diving in.
Question...How well does Pal Tiya hold up in fire? Like if someone, namely myself, had to build a custom dragon mouth fire pit/grill for a friend/client and wanted to use PT with a layers of chicken wire? Maybe foil to provide a bit more backing for the PT to stick to. Would it work, or will I have to use clay?
Certainly. You can use regular Colored "Mortar/Paving" Oxides from your local hardware store. You can add up to 3 to 5 percent (by weight of dry material) of these oxides without affecting the weather-resilience and impact-strength of Pal Tiya too much.
Hi Kim, I have watched many sculpting video, by far you have been the best teacher I have encountered, not only you show us what to do you also explain why you do it and help us understand the anatomy. Many Thanks! PS I would love to attend one of your workshops, where are you located?
Absolutely fantastic, you're a natural kim :-) maybe on the next project you could show a few close ups an definitely a longer look at the completed piece, after all you an your crew spent a LOT of your time making an explaining the process for us you deserve to show it off at its best, plus we can pause the vid to focus on the more intricate parts, Thank you from blighty an subbed :-)
Adorei a ideia da nova massa! Parabéns ! Estou trabalhando a possibilidade de modelar fósseis partindo de uma mistura semelhante. Infelizmente é complicado adquirir sua massa aqui devido a distância. Estou acompanhando seu canal.
I need a clay that is very heat resistant. I'm making a hollow dragon head that enables me to place burning incense inside. when I'm done it'll look like the dragon head his puffing smoke out of its mouth and nostrils. do you know of any air dry clay that is flame proof and inexpensive?
Although we have had our Pal Tiya "severe weather-tested" (to 300 freeze/thaw cycles!), we can't recommend using it in 'flame' situations, as we have only rated it up to "Death valley" and down to "Northern Antarctica" temperatures. Just Incense smoke though would be totally fine. Also perhaps "Propylene-Glycol Smoke-generators" produce good 'gentle' smoke at rather low temperatures too. Pal Tiya doesn't technically "air-dry" in the normal sense of that expression. Rather it has to be kept 'wet/damp' for at least a week while its' 'internal-crystallization-process' hardens it and interacts with it's special fibers to give it strength. To our knowledge, there are no "Air-Dry" clays that will both resist weather for very long as well as withstand repeated burning heat without eventually crumbling. We have been asked about fire/high-temperature-resistance with Pal Tiya many times now. We would love to eventually produce a "high-Temperature" version of Pal Tiya eventually. Perhaps.
I wont be able to get the matirials to make this wonderful piece or have the talent like you do to make this but if I could but it for my father I would be more than greatful! if you are selling it could I get a price quote?
Clark, we 'currently' manufacture and ship our Pal Tiya within N̲e̲w̲ ̲Z̲e̲a̲l̲a̲n̲d̲. Shortly (we are SO excited about this), it will be also up and running and available in the USA too. No doubt we'll make a big hullabaloo about it as it all comes together on this channel.
About ten years ago I bought a plaster dragon skull from the Gorgoyle Shop in Seattle. They told me it was made by the lady who made the large dragon that sits in the Wizards of the West Coast. Would that be you?
Hello! Pal Tiya Premium is available in New Zealand and very soon the USA. We are eyeing up Europe next - so that would probably be the best market for you to watch. Sign up to our mailing list or like our Facebook page to keep in the loop!
Pal Tiya is still only available in New Zealand. We are working to also have it manufactured in the USA. The paints Kim used were Acrylic Outdoor "All-Weather" house-paints - thinned-out into "washes", and applied when the material is wet. Our R&D team are currently developing an extreme-weather-resistant paint system specifically designed for our material. To keep informed of when and where it will be available, best subscribe to their website - Here: www.paltiya.com/subscribe.html
My first art teacher was a nasty old goblin. She taught us to sculpt huge pieces from PURE CLAY then shouted at us if our piece exploded in the kiln. Tutorials like these are worth an entire two years of useless art classes.
Ahh. It's good that somebody else noticed this. It's actually our director Chris making what he terms a 'subtle cameo'. (I was almost going to say "Reflection?♫ What reflection?♪☺ You must have very special powers").
You deserve so many more subscribers...this was incredible....you have a lovely, natural manner, along with a talent for teaching/explanation...made it seem like I could start a project with very few concerns!
I would suggest crumpled newspaper covered in foil to keep cost down. Plus it can be reused in other projects.
Fantastic video, loved the depth of detail related to pulling this off. I have never seen the aluminium foil process before, looks almost too simple. Your clay Pal Tiya is amazing, you have shown here how versatile this material is. I can't think of anything else like this. I bet this will have a lot more people take up a sculpting challenge. I loved the use of the dust pan brush for the final texture, so many good tips in this video, thanks Kim for your time and showing us your sculpting processes.
Thanks so much for your feedback Leo. We have heaps more project and video ideas planned. We're currently very busy since we've (just) begun production here in new Zealand.
We'll keep you posted.
A-bloody-mazing!!! Not just the result but the speed and virtuosity. Love it.
Thank YOU♫
I look forward to becoming your first Pal Tiya Distributor/Representative/Educator in the USA in Nov.
I can't wait to start working with it.
I will do all in my power to champion this sculpting technique and medium.
I love it when inventor/artists make it look easy.
Stumbled on to this an 30+ min later....MIND BLOWN. Just amazing skill. Thank you for sharing
you're honestly so talented, should be used in movies
Do you mean Kim in Movies?
Or our pal Tiya material in Movies?
A thing we've noticed over 30 years of making Movie props, is that so many iconic outdoor movie set-pieces degrade terribly over time. Most of them are still hand-sculpted in polystyrene, and at best sprayed with 'hard-coat' or polyurethane. Which cracks & peels after a few years out in the elements.
That's also part of what Pal Tiya excels at.
Making thin-shelled but very strong and weather-resistant sculptural pieces.
Even using polystyrene sculpture as a 'core'.
Also, Kim IS in movies - just not in 'front' of the camera.
She worked on Armour & props in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit Movies.
Hi Kim, just letting you no that I am using a similar design like this dragon but it is smaller, I used a different type of clay to make it and I am using a different design for the scales on the skull. I just wanted to let you no because I didn't want you to get angry but give you full credit for the design and you inspire me a lot. Thank you so much and have a great day
Thank you so much for telling us about this Angelina. Kim will be quite happy enough to hear she inspired you. There can NEVER be too many Dragons in the world♫. BTW, we are officially launching Pal Tiya in the USA tomorrow.
To celebrate we will be posting a wonderful video of Kim sculpting a FULL dragon out of our material.
(we're really excited♪)
Pal Tiya-oh my god I loved it I just watched it and that dragon looks amazing thank you sooooooo much for responding and I can send you a picture of the finished dry clay Dragon Skull if you want but I have to get your email, if you don't want to show everyone your email that's fine. But anyway thank you so much and keep up the great work and Hope you Have a great day and bye!!😜😜
I cannot wait to try this! Thank you Pal Tiya for this awesome product and thank you Kim Beaton for this wonderful tutorial!
Hi Kim, just letting you no that the Dragon Skull that I made at school exploded in the oven/kiln and my teacher said that it is not glueable but I can always try... I haven't seen the dragon pieces yet but i still want to try and glue it back together but I fortunately I have some photos of the Dragon Skull.
Hope you have a great day
Thanks
Angelina
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful piece of art, wonderful. I admire your work immensely. Hugs from one Beaton to another.
You are a gifted and amazing artist! This is beautifully done!
Thank you.
We will pass that on to Steven!
Omg your amazing in love ❤️ with your work !!!
Marvelous, Kim! Found you through Punished Props with Bill and Britt Doran. Love Pal Tiya. What a wonderful material. Been using Laguna Clay EM 210 for years and need to try Pal Tiya!
BTW, Laguna Clay HQ is about 30 minutes away, so can avoid shipping since the clay is so heavy.
Exelente video saludos desde MEXICO
What a great idea, very informative, i love dragons. Thankx
Thanks for making this tutorial! I enjoyed every minute of it. I haven't heard of pal tiya before. I've began polymer sculpting and the aluminum armature part to it I am familiar with. But being that this piece can be placed outdoors, I am highly interested in learning more about this medium.
Thank you Marlisa,
Do check out our website: www.paltiya.com/about.html - loads more to learn about it there, and how to use it.
I'll sure check it out. Thanks!
Also HELLO to the man who lives in the microwave :P
A superb tutorial and a wonderful product! Great work, Kim!
Thanks so much Samantha!
Can you use other materials underneath the Pal Tiya? Could I carve something out of pink insulation foam and coat that?
Hi, have a look over at our website and we answer this Q and many more :) www.paltiya.com/faqs.html
Pal Tiya Thanks!
Wonderful tutorial!!
HI Kim, You probably don't remember me. I met you over a decade ago in Seattle. I was involved with the Seattle Art Car Blowout and Freemont Solstice Festival. I had the opportunity along with others to see your studio. You were working on a huge dragon. Anyway I thought I would stop in and say hi. Cool video and medium.
Kim asked us to apologize sincerely that she will miss you. She has only just left Seattle back to home in Wellington New Zealand. But she will be back in the USA early in the new year. And making more things with our material.
Pal Tiya Thanks for the reply.
Wow, just wow...
Awesome Job! I love the detail of the dragon from start to finish! Where can you get that type of clay?
We have Pal Tiya Premium available in the USA, UK, Europe and Australia, New Zealand. Find us here: www.paltiya.com/
Nossa! Que trabalho lindo que você faz, estou incatada! Gostaria de saber o que é Pal Tiya? É argila? Obrigada está de parabéns.
Wow! What a beautiful job you do, I'm soothed! Would you like to know what Pal Tiya is? Is it clay? Thank you, Congratulations.
I love all you art is beautiful and the dragon head is amazing
Thank you♫
if you leave the sculpture fully exposed to the air for a few weeks, are you still able to work on it after this time as long as you have a rough surface? Or does it need to be covered during this time? I'm planning on making a fairly large sculpture but its not something I will be able to do all at once.
Have a look at our third video on this page: www.paltiya.com/getstarted - sorry YT has been hiding all of our comments for ages so we're only just seeing this!!
How do you get it up from the board, once you hot glued it to the board. Watched a lot of your videos and you did not address this.
This is such great information. Answering so many questions for me. Absolutely incredible product you’ve developed! ⚡️🙌👏 Really looking forward to diving in.
Love it x Is there any videos on painting the sculptures like type of paint ant finishes for outside?
I love how you teach us to also save money. lol
Looks pretty cool, really its a good dragon skull
Question...How well does Pal Tiya hold up in fire? Like if someone, namely myself, had to build a custom dragon mouth fire pit/grill for a friend/client and wanted to use PT with a layers of chicken wire? Maybe foil to provide a bit more backing for the PT to stick to. Would it work, or will I have to use clay?
Hey, check under Temperature at www.paltiya.com/faqs.html
Thank you.
Shannon Stokely cool
can you tint the clay in any way?
Certainly.
You can use regular Colored "Mortar/Paving" Oxides from your local hardware store. You can add up to 3 to 5 percent (by weight of dry material) of these oxides without affecting the weather-resilience and impact-strength of Pal Tiya too much.
Hi Kim,
I have watched many sculpting video, by far you have been the best teacher I have encountered, not only you show us what to do you also explain why you do it and help us understand the anatomy. Many Thanks! PS I would love to attend one of your workshops, where are you located?
I love you job!!!
Nice to see! Brings back a lot of memories, from back in the day...
Can Pal Tiya be shipped in Canada?
Absolutely fantastic, you're a natural kim :-) maybe on the next project you could show a few close ups an definitely a longer look at the completed piece, after all you an your crew spent a LOT of your time making an explaining the process for us you deserve to show it off at its best, plus we can pause the vid to focus on the more intricate parts, Thank you from blighty an subbed :-)
Thank you.
And, thanks for those tips too. Really good points you've made.
+Pal Tiya my pleasure an look forward to more future projects :-)
Please mom make more!!! I' m so inspired
...more coming sooooon♫♪
Could you do it with air dry clay?
Adorei a ideia da nova massa! Parabéns ! Estou trabalhando a possibilidade de modelar fósseis partindo de uma mistura semelhante. Infelizmente é complicado adquirir sua massa aqui devido a distância. Estou acompanhando seu canal.
Coooool
Thank♪You♫
I need a clay that is very heat resistant.
I'm making a hollow dragon head that enables me to place burning incense inside.
when I'm done it'll look like the dragon head his puffing smoke out of its mouth and nostrils.
do you know of any air dry clay that is flame proof and inexpensive?
also, I don't want it to crack once it air drys
I live in the US so I can't get this type of clay you're using
Although we have had our Pal Tiya "severe weather-tested" (to 300 freeze/thaw cycles!), we can't recommend using it in 'flame' situations, as we have only rated it up to "Death valley" and down to "Northern Antarctica" temperatures.
Just Incense smoke though would be totally fine.
Also perhaps "Propylene-Glycol Smoke-generators" produce good 'gentle' smoke at rather low temperatures too.
Pal Tiya doesn't technically "air-dry" in the normal sense of that expression. Rather it has to be kept 'wet/damp' for at least a week while its' 'internal-crystallization-process' hardens it and interacts with it's special fibers to give it strength.
To our knowledge, there are no "Air-Dry" clays that will both resist weather for very long as well as withstand repeated burning heat without eventually crumbling.
We have been asked about fire/high-temperature-resistance with Pal Tiya many times now.
We would love to eventually produce a "high-Temperature" version of Pal Tiya eventually. Perhaps.
We are at this very moment working on Pal Tiya being manufactures in the US very soon.
We'll announce it here when we're ready.
WOW! thats so impressive :O
Can Pal Tiya be mixed thin to pour? like to cast multiples if you pull a mold of, say, the dragon skull. Instead of making a new sculpt every time?
Hey Brad, check out Uses/Applications on this page :) www.paltiya.com/faqs.html
I wont be able to get the matirials to make this wonderful piece or have the talent like you do to make this but if I could but it for my father I would be more than greatful! if you are selling it could I get a price quote?
Hello - you can order from our store links in the description if you live in the US, UK, EU or Australia/NZ
Amazing!!!
Thanks so much!
where do you get the clay from?
Clark, we 'currently' manufacture and ship our Pal Tiya within N̲e̲w̲ ̲Z̲e̲a̲l̲a̲n̲d̲. Shortly (we are SO excited about this), it will be also up and running and available in the USA too.
No doubt we'll make a big hullabaloo about it as it all comes together on this channel.
About ten years ago I bought a plaster dragon skull from the Gorgoyle Shop in Seattle. They told me it was made by the lady who made the large dragon that sits in the Wizards of the West Coast. Would that be you?
Awesome!
Hello,
im from Israel.
Please let me know if i can order pal tiya and get it in Israel. .
Thanks allot.
Hello!
Pal Tiya Premium is available in New Zealand and very soon the USA.
We are eyeing up Europe next - so that would probably be the best market for you to watch.
Sign up to our mailing list or like our Facebook page to keep in the loop!
Wow. I learn a lot. I wonder where can i get that clay? How did you paint it by the way? Can acrylic be use?
Pal Tiya is still only available in New Zealand. We are working to also have it manufactured in the USA. The paints Kim used were Acrylic Outdoor "All-Weather" house-paints - thinned-out into "washes", and applied when the material is wet.
Our R&D team are currently developing an extreme-weather-resistant paint system specifically designed for our material.
To keep informed of when and where it will be available, best subscribe to their website - Here:
www.paltiya.com/subscribe.html
very nice tips :) helped me a lot :D
Thanks Max. We totally love to help.
This is amazing. :)
Aww, gee wiz! thank you.
what's the latest on where to buy in the US?
Have you reached out to Michael's or Hobby Lobby?
Our USA Pre-order store is now live Greg!! www.paltiya.com/store1.html
Awesome!
Though I'll have to pass :-(
Too expensive for me.
Would love to work with it though :-)
Make a clay house 🏡 pllls?
Couldn't you use old newspapers instead of the tinfoil, to make it cheaper?
How much to have you make one for me?
My first art teacher was a nasty old goblin. She taught us to sculpt huge pieces from PURE CLAY then shouted at us if our piece exploded in the kiln. Tutorials like these are worth an entire two years of useless art classes.
you must be the coolest mom...my mom built a dragon skull
😍
Was anyone else distracted by the reflection of the guy in the microwave door?
Ahh. It's good that somebody else noticed this. It's actually our director Chris making what he terms a 'subtle cameo'.
(I was almost going to say "Reflection?♫ What reflection?♪☺ You must have very special powers").
That's such a cute response! :D
There's a guy on your microwave
You madam are very alluring..Just a compliment, just saying..
Your video, has a 3 years old
And I I should probably delete my account for falling in love on youtube.
Yes, cute ..erm ..dragon-skull! Yeah.
(I believe Kim may be 'spoken for' ;) *sigh*)
Why don't you dig one up
Aluminium foil... it is aluminium.