Ceramic Character Design: Explore Color and Texture
Adding Color and Glazing 2
A course by Nastia Calaca , Ceramic Artist
About the video: Adding Color and Glazing 2
Overview
“In this lesson, I will continue to apply the underglaze, progressing to the smaller details and shading. ”
In this video lesson Nastia Calaca addresses the topic: Adding Color and Glazing 2, 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
“ Adding Color and Glazing Try to create an even more vibrant texture and add some nice touches and details like these small dots. You can add some of them directly onto the bumpy texture just to emphasize some of them. The eyes have already dried out, so I can make the pupil. To make the eyes look even more lively, I want to add extra color. I'll just put this really gentle line around the eye. The final touch. I want to exaggerate all the lines on the hips and between the fingers that I created during the sculpture process. To do so, I dissolved the paints with a big amount of water. Once...”
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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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