Picking Model for Clay Trout Sculpture

Video Transcript

"JORGE BENLLOCH: Okay, first--for example, you can see here a lot of fish, pictures of fish. First, you have to select what you want to reproduce in--today, from fish book, California Fish Identification book. Okay, I choose a trout. It can be like a rainbow trout, whatever you want. I choose that one. How we can convert this little piece of fish in something like a trophy? Okay. That's--I make a photocopy of this page. Then with a regular photocopy machine--then I enlarge, like, 200 times and I make it that one. Then of course, I enlarged 150 times and I make that one. Then I cut into pieces because, the paper, I have no bigger paper. And then with this, I enlarged each piece and I construct this fish. This is going to be--and we are going to use it as a model and as a stencil. That's why I didn't cut yet. We are going to cut it now. And this is good because it keep the regular real proportions. And also you don't need to be a good drawer. You can--if you don't know how to draw or how to use a pencil, who cares? With this, you have the design already done. We're going to put this on top of clay later. We are going to cut following the lines. And also we are going to use the proportions of all the details here for the fish. That's going to be our trophy fish in clay."