Summary: Learn about the types of clay to use when making a clay sculpture of human hands in this free video ceramic art lesson.
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
"Now I'm going to show you another kind of clay. This it's oil based clay, and this one looks not exactly it's half water based, half glycerin based. They make this clay in order to last wet much longer than the regular clay. And then it allows you to work much longer in this kind of California weather that doesn't dry fast. If not really, you have to work really very fast though, have a small to make large projects is really complicated. This, it's low drying clay. Then, we have plasticine or plastiline that this kind of clay it's oil base. All these clays they are very safe to work with. They are not toxic; it's good for the skin, no problem. We use these plastiline and plasticine in order to make little models, or the modeling that we make it with a steel, or iron, or aluminum structure. It's like this one that I make. For example, this was originally make by this kind of clay, and everybody works with that when they try to make model. But later, you have to make a mold, and you have to make the piece. That's another story. Then we have a very interesting clay here that's Sculpey, Super Sculpey. That is more or less like a plastiline, but it hard really very easily when you put it in the toaster oven in here, and for a few minutes. And you get this kind of nice hardening. I think that's it for now."