Sculpting With Clay
By Natalie McKenna
Ok, so I’m not the worlds greatest sculpter
but it’s great fun and the more you do it,
the better you get at it! Another ceramic
artist once told me that to make my work
unique I should sculpt my own pieces. Up
until that point I’d been using moulds and
textures I’d bought and thought to myself
“argh, I can’t sculpt!”. Having never really
tried it, I didn’t think I’d be much good at
it, but it turns out I’m not too bad at all...
plenty of room for improvement though,
and practise makes perfect! I long to be
able to sculpt like Cynthia Thornton, (such
minute detailing...fabulousness!!) and
hopefully that will come with time and a
good set of opti-visors!
Sculpting now happens to be one of my
favorite parts of the whole “clay” process,
but also the most time consuming...but
relaxing too. I love nothing more than to
turn off social media for a little while, sit
at my desk, get Netflix on the go and get
out some clay and my old bag of tools.
Tools! I have so many, but I always need
more! I’ll talk about textures in a future
article, this one will be focusing mostly
on the different type of tools I use plus a
little about the process! The tools pictured
are my own and are not too clean looking
(covered in clay!) but you’ll get the general
gist!
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Animal beads I sculpted last year.
My first attempt at sculpting...ever!