I have now sculpted the body for my two-headed dog sculpture. I did this by wedging a large half circle of clay and letting it dry a little. I then used a ribbon tool to carve away at it until it was the shape I wanted. I hollowed out the inside and rolled to coils to act as front legs. I am having trouble with one of the back legs breaking off, but will hopefully be able to glue it back on later in this project. I decided against having one of the mouths open, and instead fixed it so that they are both closed. I am hoping to add black underglaze to most of the piece and am planning to carve something into the sides of this piece.
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Wolf Mouth has now been bisque fired. I have been touching up the under glaze, especially around the teeth and gums.
After bisque firing, I added white overglaze. I then added touches of red underglaze, both to add more color and more of a sense of danger to the piece. I am still working on glazing the inside of the outer mouth, as I did not plan out well how to keep it from being white. I am hoping to cover the whole piece in clear glaze and fire it one last time before declaring it done. This project in a clay two headed dog. I want to continue on the theme of surreal sculptures of real fears. This started as a very small concept figurine I made of clay of a dog with two heads and two tails.
I have made the two clay heads, and plan to make a body. I do not know how I want to pose the body yet, or what else could be added to elevate the piece. I started each head with the coned nose shape, then slowly added clay to the back to form the head. I cut triangles and scored and slipped those on as the ears. Using a needle tool, I carved the line of the closed mouth on one head. I am excited to keep working on this project! For this project, I wanted to explore my discomfort with eye contact. I am cutting and layering cardboard so that it starts as an eye on the top layers and slowly become a mouth with teeth at the inner most layers.
I used a cardboard knife to cut each layer, and have them taped together for now. I will later glue them down after i cut the last few layers, as well and teeth and eyelashes. I think I would also like to cut thin veins to add to the eye layers. Then I will paint it and see what else can be added from there. The initial idea for this project is to have a second set of jaws coming out of an open wolf mouth. I wanted this piece to look surreal, while still based in the realistic fear of violent animals.
I started by coiling the base of the outer jaw, then rolled and cut slabs for the inner mouth once the base was tall enough to act as the outer mouth. I sculpted teeth and scored and slipped them to the mouth, then added a rim to each mouth to act as a lip and add more depth. In this photo, Wolf Mouth is painted with under glaze. All are colors that I mixed myself. I plan to paint the teeth with white glaze to make sure they shine. |
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