How To Carve Clay Tiles

Relief Carving TechniquesDefine your Edges Drag your pencil or sgraffito tool at a shallow angle for clean deep clarifying lines.

How to carve clay tiles. Once students are at the stage of finishing the three levels of depth on their carvi. I roll and cut tile on the plywood to avoid any additional handling of the clay. In this video I test three different mason stains of various amount.

Repeat this process several times 7-10 then check for crazing. You can carved decorative designs into slate tiles for your walls or floors to create a custom tiles using a high speed rotary tool such as a Dremel. While the clay is fairly wet place the stamp where you want your carving to go and gently push the stamp to create your outline.

Place the clay in the mold and roll it flat into the mold with a rolling pin. I make sure that the clay is firmly attached to both the sides and the bottom of the mold form. Put glazed tiles through a hot dishwasher cycle then into the freezer for a day or two then back into the dishwasher and again returning it to the freezer.

After grab your ruler and start measuring 6 inches on each side so basically making a square. In this lesson I review the concepts of modeling and additive sculpture. Most of my tiles are press molded in plaster molds but if you dont use molds for your tiles just roll out clay slabs directly onto a piece of drywall drywall makes a great work surface just make sure to seal all of the drywall edges with duct tape to contain that nasty drywall dust using wooden spacers or dowels beneath the rolling pin for the desired thickness.

Provide counter pressure on the inside of your pot with your hand to gauge the force of your pencil gain awareness of wall thickness and keep track of. Tiles and slabs will shrink while drying so use enough weight to hold them flat but not so much you create drag as they dry. May 15 2015 - Explore Cynthia Seggers board Clay carving followed by 148 people on Pinterest.

Equip your tool with carbide carving bits to carve a wide variety of designs into the slate tiles. The key to carving slate is. When carving clay consider the first lines incised into the clay to be the skeleton of your design.