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Discovery About Myself
March 21st, 2012 | Posted in Ceramic | 
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Discovery About Myself
Discovered that I really do love doing quick clay sketches. That initial creation period is intense and euphoric. Since my reading book lady sculpt is destined to be refined in bronze, she will be my next project to finish for my romantic realism gallery. Then I’m finishing my Indian in a Canoe sculpt! Looking forward to it!
Meanwhile, I have this show coming up in my home town in June and I won’t have any new art that is finished which is embarrassing and disappointing. So I made up some quickie rose sculpts and will glaze them……
Largest clay rose of the four- 6 inches.
The larger the rose, the more difficult because the rose has to be held in the hand and harder to do the bigger. This one seemed like it was 7 inches but now it’s shrunk maybe down to 6 inches and will shrink more during firing. All these pics show clay before firing.
Best to use fresh clay so that the clay will push easily into the hand in order to form the petals. To make a clay rose, you roll up a ball of clay in your hand and then press with your thumb the clay into the palm. Form a long pressed flat rectangle at first and roll this into a twirl (swirl?) for the middle of the rose. Then put another ball of clay in palm and this time press into a small petal shape. You can position the petal into the edge of the twirl, as if the petal is coming out of it. Keep working your way out to the edge of the flower, adding and staggering one petal after another.
There’s much more to making the rose but for now that’s a beginning. I like to add the sepals at the base of the flower and use my finger nail to make jag marks into them for realistic effect. By making the rose stem thick, this will give strength. Nothing worse than a broken clay rose after receiving it as a gift.
Veins showed up from my hands in the clay.
If the clay is fresh then your hand print will show up in the petals and seem like the veins of the flower for neat effect. I wrote “I love you” on the stems of these first two roses, that way they can be given as a rose to a loved one with a message on them.
Simple rose with small stem.
Smallest rose- 4 inches.
On the subject of discovery, I now know that I can’t do a quick one day sketch figurative (meaning a person) sculpt. I say each time that I’ll just do a quickie one day and I get carried away. Here’s two pics that show after one session. I detest the early pics but know people like seeing them. She looks awful! But it’s still pure joy as I’m sculpting it because it’s so fun to do new things.
So much to do but after one session of sculpting, is to be expected.
Very rough beginnings of clay sketch.
Last pic was after a few more sessions of sculpting her and will finish out the hand (and few anatomy adjustments), hair and probably leave her nude. I’ll leave her a rough sketch style and later make another one off of this sculpt (when I have time) and refine that one further to go into bronze.
Ready for face and hair etc.
I’m glad to have a few things for the local show. Thanks for listening and seeing what’s going on with my work.
~Tamara
5 Responses to “Discovery About Myself”
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Thanks for the rose-sculpting lesson! I’ll have to try that!
As for your one-day sculpt – she’s GORGEOUS! Yeah, her arm and head are rough, but look at those beautiful legs and feet and the rest of her is nicely developed too.
Did you make her chair or find it somewhere? It has just the right feel for your style – light, lovely, romantic.
Thanks for sharing! I need to get back in the studio myself – too many things to do and not enough time!! Wish I could clone myself!!
Keep up the beautiful work!
Lynda
Thought of you with the mini rose lesson tips.
They are fun and rewarding because you can so easily give them away as gifts from your heart.
The after 4 day session sculpt update of her is the very last pic. Now I just have her face and hair and a bit more to do on the body.
Yes, get to the studio and play!
~Tamara
Oh ya, forgot to mention, the chair was one I had previously made for another sculpt so had it already on hand. It was easy to make with wire and supersculpy. Will make more chairs like this. I like the rusty-ness as well. Will paint it shabby chic with some white on it and light green.
Love the chair, especially because it’s easy to make! And it would cast well for bronze, too!
Thanks for thinking of me – I will play with a rose later today, hopefully! Gotta go get my hair cut in a little bit, then I plan to get my hands in some clay!!
Hi
Just loving your work on this blog ….. Just a question for you
What kind of support are you using for these clay scuplts
Are you using an armature or just clay .
Are you hollowing out the clay before firing …..
I’m very intrigued with your process and would love to see a step buy step such as the mould making but for your actual sculpting setup …… Not so much about details etc …. Just the general process …… Thanks for your wonderfull artwork and informative blog