How To Relief Carve Clay

When carving clay consider the first lines incised into the clay to be the skeleton of your design.
How to relief carve clay. To achieve the look of low relief draw an outline onto the clay surface. Cess of slab making by throwing a block of clay on a hard surface wire cutting it into slabs and pulling and stretch-ing the sheets of soft textured clay on a hard surface al-lows for a great variety of expanded patterns. Together we will dive into the glorious world of relief.
To begin a relief carving use a pencil to trace your design onto the wood. In this video I will show examples and give wisdom on carving clay. 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 the moisture content of your clay.
Make sure that your piece is completely dry coat the surface level of clay with water using a damp brush. Carving Surface carving is usually done best with a variety of toolsfrom knives and gouges to wire-ended modeling. The process will be easier if you wet the clay first.
Join Master Wood Carver Chris Pye at Woodcarving Workshops for more p. I hope you enjoy my videos. HttpwwwwoodcarvingworkshopstvLearn the basic steps involved in carving a relief.
At this point its helpful to think about your scene in reverse. Some of the tools I use in this video are hand-made tools I made at home because the school is closed so I ha. Bas relief is sort of 3D sort of fl.
The film covers the entire process. Keep in mind that the area within the outline is the positive space and the area outside the outline is the negative space. Its an issue when modeling very delicate details.