Using Stickers on Clay Sculptures

Video Transcript

"Hi. I am Chitrotpola Mukherjee from Art Space India and I am talking on behalf of Expert Village. Now I am going to show you a method also used by ceramists to do designs on pottery on sculpture or what ever work on newer pieces. That can be done. This is by application of stickers. Let me show you a sheet of stickers. As you can see you can there are pieces that are round there are pieces that are thin circle. And these you can use and cuts and use or in what ever way your like. Simply cut a little piece out of it and put it in what ever piece of work that you're doing which you want to embellish. Anything that is appropriate. So just stick it and then you put it through the same process of putting it in the furnace. Keeping it at 700 or 8000 temperature. Keeping it for 7-8 HRS and then it cools. And then you take it out and it is ready. This particular design which ever designed you have put has been transferred onto your particular piece. It really works wonders on this simple ordinary looking things and you use a sticker and it completely raises the level of that particular piece. The same stickers can be used to enhance the look of a sculpture. For instance if you look at this round piece. Now if you cut and it into two. First the artist likes. You take this and you put half of it on this wing and you put it half of this on the other wing. And then well it has changed. It's a bird it becomes a bird with a floral wing on both sides. And you want to add some more color may you can put a strip of red over here. Or a strip of red in the beak. You can do lots of things other than using on glaze process. You can also, this is again a non glaze process. Which you can use for embellishing your object. There is such a large scope. what a huge scope there is to do things and have really have fun. When you are working you don't have to be very serious. You can play with this. You play with stickers. You play with color. Play with designed and you're thinking keeps changing as you wish. So I think that's, that gives a lot of scope and variety to the artist at work. Thank you"