The process of making clay figurines

1. Put the soil into a wooden basin or other container, add water to make mud, use a sieve to remove sand and sundries from the soil, and then put the mud in the sun to evaporate excess water, so that the plastic mud is moderate in hardness. Step 2, cut the plastic mud into blocks and wrap it in plastic cloth for later use.

2. Take a number of bamboo sticks with different lengths, widths and widths, sharpen one end of the bamboo stick and polish it smoothly, and make several plastic knives in this way. According to the modeling of clay sculpture, making wooden or iron skeleton can increase the firmness of clay sculpture and the complexity of modeling.

3. After the mud and skeleton are finished, you can start painting mud. Spray water on the skeleton first, so that the mud and skeleton are firmly combined and not easy to fall off. When painting mud, pile the mud on the skeleton piece by piece, press it tightly with your hands, then add mud layer by layer, and pat it firmly with a mallet or partition.

4. When dealing with mud, we should focus on the overall situation, proceed from the whole, and avoid being timid and falling into the shaping of local details. Sculpture is a three-dimensional entity. Every time you add a piece of mud, you should take care of the relationship between different perspectives. You should always rotate the sculpture platform and constantly observe and compare the mud. Don't pile it up at once, just pile it up in a big shape.

Clay sculpture, also known as "painted sculpture" and "painted clay sculpture", is a traditional folk sculpture handicraft in China. With the development of social culture, there are two forms of contemporary clay sculpture. One is small clay sculptures for viewing and playing, such as desks and children's toys, which are mainly composed of figures, animals, birds, flowers and fruits; The other is the large and medium-sized clay sculptures in temples, which are often used to create statues for religious and Buddhist people in temples.