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I decided to upload some of my ceramic work! I'll be doing one every day.This one was my first ceramic piece, and I absolutely hated doing it. I was frustrated, I wanted to switch out of the class, and it kept collapsing on itself! eventually I kind of got the hang of it, and now I like ceramics so much that any college I go to better have a kiln lol. This is a really simple piece, back when I was still feeling out what my work was about and animal symbolism. I didn't really go in with a plan, but I like how it came out a lot now.
like 15+ hours, it took me awhile lol.
5" X 12" X 3"
Ceramic and glaze
-Spikie
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Wait...this is your first ever ceramics piece? I find that hard to believe. It's really good. I'm not going to say it's perfect, but it's still good. At least in my opinion, I think it is. I think my first ceramics piece was...let's just say not nearly this good. Though, I didn't have 15+ hours to work on it, so maybe that was the reason. Slow and steady has been better for my art. Man, this really makes me want to get back into a pottery studio. I just wish my school had as good of a program as my high school or local community college. Or the time to work on it. Ceramics is time consuming.
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ahh yeah, it took forever though! I was happy in the end, but I hated it the entire way because I couldn't grasp the concept of slab building and the arms kept falling off/cry. I think slow and steady is a pretty good approach in the beginning so you understand what your doing, and then as you get better you can do the same stuff in less time! and I know how you feel, I probably won't be doing ceramics for a loonnng time, the college I'm going to has everything for 3-D production BUT a kiln, and the only place in the city with a kiln is probably the local Color me mine lol. if you have access to the materials, I'd say go for it! it's time consuming, but you can always wrap it up and come back another day to finish it, y'know?
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Ah! Slab building. Slab building is a pain. The big ol' slabs of clay never really did what I wanted them to do. Though, there are those I know who loved slab building. It's all a matter of preference, I suppose. But it's true, slow and steady is the way to go. I tend to think of art as a trial of patience. The art will come out when it comes out. You just can't rush it. Well, unless you're highly skilled in that medium, I suppose, but that's beyond the point. It's a shame your college doesn't have a kiln, because I've liked the pieces you came up with. But you're right, if there's an opportunity to create pottery, I should jump on it. It's been far too long since I had my hands in clay, and I miss it. Thanks for that!
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This is really lovely. I know that ceramics are very different to Sculpey/clay sculpting, but have you got any tips you could share? Each time I model clay the joins are very obvious, unlike the perfect arms and ears on this piece. If you sculpted it all from one piece with no joins, do you have any tips on doing that? Thanks
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thankyou very much! as for tips, I've dabbled a bit with sculpey, but I'm not awesome with it (I'm still getting the hang of keeping it at the right temperature and so on) so I'll just throw some things out there and I guess try them? When I made some charms a while ago, I attached the parts by putting a piece of wire (it was a head to a body, might not work for smaller pieces) in one, then a drop of TLS, and then I placed the other piece to be joined on top of the wire. It kinda gives it more support, but theres probably a better way. anyways, after that, in order to smooth the join out I take a tooth pick (you can and should try other tools!) and gently kinda blend the sculpey together. this tutorial shows how better [link] . as for actual clay-techniques, you could try scoring and slipping the pieces with TLS and a tooth pick or fork! heres a tutorial [link] [link] . ignore the parts about clay moisture and such and focus on the technique and how she attaches the spout, you can pretty much apply this technique to anything in ceramics at leas, it might work for sculpey too! smoothing is important,and with ceramic clay this is usually done with flat, paddle-like tools of varying sizes, in which you gently push the clay where you want it to go and blend! I hope that kind of helped! also, as for this piece, the arms were added onto the main body later on and the ears were made of clay added and then sculpted, maybe something to experiment with!
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Aha, thanks so much! I actually have most of those materials already, and I have a pack of 20 different clay tools. So I probably should have figured this out earlier xD Thanks again!
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No problem! I'm glad I could help
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You already know I think this is lovely, but let me take some time to appreciate your BRILLIANT CRAFTSMANSHIP. I really love how you positioned the arms and how they're like cradling the hole in his belly area and how you did the fur and the coloring! He is just such a wonderful blend of wolf and man and I really admire your godly skills with the clay and lalalaaaa.
Great work, as always <3
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/crycrycry WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO MEEE
thankyou and thankyou <3
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