How To Carve Clay

When carving air-dry clay it is important that you dont use a lot of force.

How to carve clay. 12 Bevel the outlines with the Kemper tool then carve the petals with a Zebra tool. Recesses can also be created by pinching the clay digging out with your thumb and forefinger. The thickness of the objects to be carved should be considered carefully early.

When carving clay consider the first lines incised into the clay to be the skeleton of your design. 11 Use a Kemper carving tool to deepen the traced lines. Many clay ceramic art projects using techniques and clay construction methods.

The top layer will get softer and carving will become more uniform and smooth. Carve your shape with an artists gouge carving tool. The process will be easier if you wet the clay first.

Simply glue the sandpaper to the wooden sticks and you have a working file to carve your clay. In todays video Curt Benzle demonstrates a simple way to create texture and pattern on a vessel by layering and carving colored slips. If playback doesnt begin shortly try restarting your device.

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. Then going back to the center of the plate he carves the pattern of the main motif one line at a time 6 7. Slab coil clay impression and texture carving.

With this method you can use various tools including steel wax carvers. Carving Surface carving is usually done best with a variety of toolsfrom knives and gouges to wire-ended modeling toolswhen the clay is leather-hard. Coils of clay are a good way of building up the sides of a hollow shape laying the clay down in a spiral prevents it collapsing easily.