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How to Make a Cat Pattern in Clay

Making the pattern for your cat sculpture in your clay and initial shaping; tips and techniques to have you sculpting like a pro in no time in this free online art lesson on video taught by expert Jorge Benlloch.

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JORGE BENLLOCH: The materials that we are going to use first, we are going to use whatever we need to structure the standing cat. This is a platform, this is just a piece of wood and this--I put this because later, I'm going to pull up the cat like that and it's not going to stick on that; that's very important. You can use any toilet paper or cardboard or kitchen or whatever you want. That's important because the clay shrinks when it's dry. It shrinks 15%. You have to put something soft there like for example, this cardboard or paper or whatever, then it helps to avoid cracking. If you lift the wood inside, it's going to crack. Okay. Now, we have the structure, okay? Then the materials that we are going to use are these two pieces of wood. It's going to cut those pieces of clay more or less evenly in the same kind of thickness. That's important. Okay, we have two pieces here. We are going to start trying to make this figurine with this shape.

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How to Make a Cat Pattern in Clay

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