Ceramic Character Design: Explore Color and Texture
The Body 1
A course by Nastia Calaca , Ceramic Artist
About the video: The Body 1
Overview
“To begin, we will work and shape the sculpture with slabs. I will explain how to transform simple basic shapes into a lively and lovely creature.”
In this video lesson Nastia Calaca addresses the topic: The Body 1, 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
“ The Body We are going to create our sculpture from scratch, and to do so, we'll use a slab-building technique. We start the slab-building technique by rolling out the slabs out of clay. To do it, we'll need to use a home version of a slab roller. We need the piece of textile that I put on the top of the working table. I need two wooden planks in one level of thickness, approximately 0.5 cm, and the rolling pin, of course. You need to put the planks on the top of the textile in parallel, approximately 15 cm apart. Be sure that the rolling pin touches both ends of the planks. It works like ...”
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Course summary for: Ceramic Character Design: Explore Color and Texture
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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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