How To Carve Clay

Water is applied as a lubricant to facilitate the carving.

How to carve clay. Carve your shape with an artists gouge carving tool. 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.

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Make sure that your piece is completely dry coat the surface level of clay with water using a damp brush. The clay can get crumbly because of the paper fibres if youre carving with a blunt scalpel. Place the design on the form and start to move the image around until it flows with the form alterations and spout.

Carving Surface carving is usually done best with a variety of toolsfrom knives and gouges to wire-ended modeling toolswhen the clay is leather-hard. See more ideas about clay pottery clay ceramic techniques. One of my favourite way is to wet the surface a little bit and then carve with a needle or any other tool.

The process will be easier if you wet the clay first. After the central area is complete he proceeds to carve the pattern in each section of the perimeter area on the plate again one line at a time. 11 Use a Kemper carving tool to deepen the traced lines.

Carving piercing a flower design into a clay pottery bowl thrown on the wheelUsing a sharpened tool made from a hack saw blade cuts are made to leave hole. The film covers the entire process. Make sure that your sculpture is completely dry and wet just the top layer of the clay.