How to Add Texture to a Cat Sculpture

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"JORGE BENLLOCH: We're going to texture. As I said, and I did with the other figures before that it helps later when you put the coatings to have a better finish. The problem with the clay, water-based clay, is that when you work for long, it starts drying, you can see. And then these particles, they start adding on the wet clay that still you are working with and then they make like a little grain; it's a little pain. Then this, it helps putting everything together and making the surface spark even, okay? And also with some kind of a texture that--it helps later with the appearance. I mean, it looks better when you paint it. And so, if you feel that there is some kind of bumps or some kind of edges that you don't like, you just smooth this down, right there, like this, and it looks much better. You can see now the face. You want--no. Yeah. Okay. We finished the shaping and we finished already the figurine and the texturing. Okay. Now, we are going to let it dry for almost four days. Yes, four or five days. Then after that, we're going to use several kinds of coatings in order to protect the figurine. And then it's going to be self-drying. It's a self-drying clay then you don't need to put in the kiln and it's going to be hard enough if you don't abuse that figurine. It's going to stand here for a long, long, long time."