How To Carve Clay

Simply push the file down very lightly and carefully move it back and forth to remove some of the air dry clay.

How to carve clay. How to carve a teacup from a lump of clay. The film covers the entire process. Hand Building Pottery Project Ideas for Teachers and Artists.

Mixing stains into into a clay body most effective with a light clay body appeals to a lot of people because it opens up many opportunities for developing more precise patterning than is possible with glaze. When carving clay consider the first lines incised into the clay to be the skeleton of your design. Coils of clay are a good way of building up the sides of a hollow shape laying the clay down in a spiral prevents it collapsing easily.

In todays video Curt Benzle demonstrates a simple way to create texture and pattern on a vessel by layering and carving colored slips. Make sure that your sculpture is completely dry and wet just the top layer of the clay. 12 Bevel the outlines with the Kemper tool then carve the petals with a Zebra tool.

With this method you can use various tools including steel wax carvers. Carve your shape with an artists gouge carving tool. Simply glue the sandpaper to the wooden sticks and you have a working file to carve your clay.

Begin by laying down directional lines that define the motion and flow of the pattern then flush out the drawing by working back from the tip of each spiral 2. This and the print block can be purchased at an art supply store. 11 Use a Kemper carving tool to deepen the traced lines.

See more ideas about clay pottery clay ceramic techniques. The clay can get crumbly because of the paper fibres if youre carving with a blunt scalpel. May 15 2015 - Explore Cynthia Seggers board Clay carving followed by 148 people on Pinterest.