Art Supplies for Making a Clay Owl Sculpture

Series Summary

Working with clay is one of the most satisfying and relaxing hobbies. Ceramics can be produced on a large scale by large companies or on a small scale by independent artists. Ceramics artists make many different types of art with clay including sculptures. Clay sculpturing is a fantastic part of ceramic art. If you would like to learn how to design and create clay sculptures, for free and online, you can learn from one of our experts.

In this free ceramics video series, you'll learn how to make clay sculptures from ceramics art expert Jorge Benlloch. He will teach you how to sculpt an owl figure in easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions. He starts by showing you what types of art supplies you'll need to start sculpting in clay, how to plan the layout of your sculpture, and how to shape the clay into a beautiful and elegant work of art. Watch these free videos and get your hands dirty with clay today!

Video Transcript

"I'm Jorge Benlloch from Expert Village and today we are going to try to copy this little figurine and we are going to make it that high in wet clay. This is the tools that we will need for that process. It's going to be a whole figurine that we are going to let it self dry. And later we will protect it with some kind of enamels and painting that will be good and safe for long. I mean, it's not going to chip or break. That's all this, the tools that we need. We need to make one amateur and I will teach you how to do that in the following steps. The main tool is cutting wire, very important. We are going to want to use water based clay. This cuts really fantastic and this is an essential tool if you want to work with clay. Then we are going to use the roll pin, we are going to use these two little pieces of wood. Then this is going to be for structure we are going to build up with that. This we are going to maybe use this one to wrap all the structure to be attached to the clay. And then we have one spoon for the feathers, one fork for the feathers. Then we have these little clay tools that we are going to use also. This we are going to need in order to attach this screw to the wall. And that's it. "