Clay Portrait: Model a Full-Scale Face

Overview

“Finally, we are going to see how to empty our work and how to prepare it for baking. For this I will show you how to make a regular thickness working both inside and out. We will eliminate the structure that we placed at the beginning and we will begin to remove all the excess material making strategic cuts to work on the work.”

In this video lesson Efraïm Rodríguez addresses the topic: Draining and baking 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Clay Portrait: Model a Full-Scale Face. Create a three-dimensional portrait with your own hands by working with clay to depict every detail of a face .

Partial transcription of the video

“Hollowing out and firing In this lesson we will prepare our bust to fire in the kiln. We had determined a composition. I have marked it roughly. We are simply going to take off the excess. It is a bit dry and that makes hollowing out easier. We could get the bust off. For firing, we need a flat surface. Still, I'll leave a cubic base. We will not put a turned shape as we have seen in some examples. We will do something geometric and simple. I thought I'd work it higher, but in the end I went to the ridge of the shoulder blades. Here we see the last layers we put on. This clay has good adhes...”

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Course summary for: Clay Portrait: Model a Full-Scale Face

• Level: Beginner
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• 9458 students
• 5 units
• 33 lessons (7h 34m)
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• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Fine Arts, Sculpture