Modelling clay animals

Creating Creatures in Clay

Pottery Tutor Sally demonstrates modelling animals in clay, with a short video of her sheep to give you some pointers. You could use the same techniques to model in plasticine or playdough if you don’t have clay. View the video on our Facebook page.

Making a ceramic model

Make a Ceramic Model

Here’s some photos of the little figure I finished this morning. He’s a bit of a cross between da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man and Angel of the North. It’s really tricky to get a figure in clay to stand so I built this in stages starting with the feet and building Read more…