Ceramic Character Design: Explore Color and Texture
Materials
A course by Nastia Calaca , Ceramic Artist
About the video: Materials
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show my favorite tools and briefly explain how to work with each of them. I will also suggest alternatives and talk about where you can find them.”
In this video lesson Nastia Calaca addresses the topic: Materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Ceramic Character Design: Explore Color and Texture. Learn to sculpt whimsical and handmade characters by combining colors, textures, and clay modeling techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Materials In this lesson, I'll invite you into my tool shed, where we will dive into the world of professional tools and materials. Some of them you can find at home, so it's not necessary to buy all the professional tools from ceramic suppliers. In this course, we are going to shape the sculpture and to do this we'll need some of the tools that will help us to shape the sculpture. We are going to shape our sculpture using the slab-building technique, and for making the slabs we'll need the rolling pin, just the normal one that you can find in the kitchen. Make sure that it's sturdy enoug...”
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Course summary for: Ceramic Character Design: Explore Color and Texture
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Ceramics, Character Design, Fine Arts, Sculpture
Nastia Calaca
A course by Nastia Calaca
Nastia Calaca is a ceramic artist from Ukraine who currently lives and works in the Netherlands. Since childhood, she dreamed of becoming an illustration artist and went on to discover what has become a lifelong love for ceramics during a school trip to the Czech Republic. After completing a degree in ceramics at the Kyiv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Art and Design, Nastia started teaching workshops for beginners in her studio.
In 2016 Nastia founded Calaca Ceramic Art; an online store selling ceramic characters and figurines inspired by the world around her. Every piece is handmade and Nastia sells her custom orders to people all over the world. She also shares her work with over 70K followers on Instagram.
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