Summary: Learn how to make a base to make a clay sculpture of the human figure in this free ceramic art lesson on video.
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
"Well, this is going to be now time to make the base where we're going to project that layout in. It's going to be in that clay. We are going to start cutting a slab here. As I said, this small as the thickness of the body here. We have to add a little bit later. We will probably elongate. We are going to be out of proportion, probably. A little bit, but it's not big deal. We can later finish this. Now we're going to cut the slab, okay? You have to press the sides and then, hopefully it's going to come out. Okay. Here we have, and the slab that is the thickness of the human body. Then, what we are going to do next, is to put the layout here. We can see that it's going to miss the hand, and that's okay. We, with the roller pin, we are going to slide a little bit and widen the slab a little bit to fit it."