I am currently working on making a ribcage out of clay. I made each vertebrae, hollowed them out, then score and slipped them together. After adding the ribs, I rolled a slab on the thinnest setting of the slab roller and draped it over the rest of the piece to make skin. I wanted it to flow naturally over the piece, and cut in a few holes to make it looked ragged. I am working on making bugs from sculpee to add to the inside of the rib cage, I may also add eyes and teeth.
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Hunger & Appetite has now been bisque fired with a layer of black underglaze over most of the piece. After bisque firing, I painted on eyes with white overglaze. On one side of the piece, I have carved "A TWO HEADED MONSTER" and on the other side I carved "EATS TWICE AS MUCH". I then filled the words in with black underglaze to make sure they are still readable. I will be giving this piece a glaze fire and then touching up as needed.
I added red underglaze and white overglaze to the teeth of my Wolf Mouth sculpture. This draws the eye to them, as they are shinier than the rest of the piece. For now I am not putting clear glaze over the rest of the piece, but may change my mind later. For now, I am deciding that this piece is done.
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.
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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