Summary: Creating the body of your cat for your clay cat sculpture; 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.
Jorge Benlloch is originally from Barcelona, Spain, where he received a M.A. & B.A in art at Steban Ripeaux Academy. He has taught art at the University Popular Elche and the...read more
"JORGE BENLLOCH: You'll see that more or less, we are getting--already we have the shape of the kitty. Of course, we want to have some kind of movement. Then you just slap here, put the butt there, twist the body, that's what the clay is for. It's a flexible and elastic material that you can play with. Then we are going to give him this kind of aristocratic look that it looks to you with superiority like we are unable to catch any mouse that's why cats, they have this kind of feeling that we are good for nothing. You can see the ears up, nice pointy ears but different way. Now, we have to shape it like that. In fact, it's one of the best weapons that they have against the rodents, their ears. They hear in the night when the rodents are chewing or moving. We are going to put the eyes in here and then we are going to make the nose that they have a very tiny nose. Okay. Now, we are going to start making the legs."