How to make clay skeleton

1. Preparation of clay for clay sculpture.

Step 1: Put the mud into a wooden basin or other container, add water to make mud, remove the sand and impurities in the mud with a sieve, and then put the mud in the sun to evaporate the excess water to make the plastic mud moderately hard.

Step 2, cut the plastic mud into blocks and wrap it in plastic cloth for later use.

2. Make clay plastic knives.

Take several bamboo sticks with different lengths, widths and widths, sharpen and polish one end of the bamboo stick, and make several large, medium and small plastic knives by this method.

3. Make a clay skeleton.

According to the modeling of clay sculpture, making wooden or iron skeleton can increase the firmness of clay sculpture and the complexity of modeling.

4. Start making solid clay sculptures.

Clay sculpture is commonly known as "painted sculpture". China traditional sculpture crafts. The production method is to mix a little cotton fiber into the clay, tamp it evenly, knead it into mud blanks with various patterns, dry it in the shade, expose the bottom powder, and then color it. The appearance of clay sculpture can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period more than 2,000 years ago. In the Warring States Policy, the story of Tai Su's resistance to the monarch's entry into Qin was recorded as a couple. The main reason for the development of clay sculpture art in China is the folk custom of martyrdom, worshipping Buddha statues and playing with objects for primitive people. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, clay sculpture reached its peak. Famous clay sculptures include the Bodhisattva in Dunhuang, Gansu and the maid-in-waiting in Taiyuan, Shanxi. By the Qing Dynasty, clay sculpture had formed two famous schools in the north and south: Tianjin clay figurine Zhang in the north and Wuxi Huishan clay figurine in the south. "Clay figurine Zhang" refers to Tianjin clay figurine Zhang Changlin, a family of sculptors. His works are characterized by realism, character modeling, voice and smile, and color decoration, all of which emphasize the word "elephant". His sons, Zhang and Sun, Zhang Jingju, inherited their ancestral business and made contributions to China's color plastic arts. Huishan clay figurines can be divided into two categories: one is "clay wants goods" for children to play with, and "Daafu" is the most typical work. Its shape is plump, lively, vigorous and concise, with bright and warm colors and strong local flavor. The other kind is "hand-kneading drama", which mainly shapes opera characters. This kind of clay figurine pays great attention to the description of species, with exaggerated and decent shapes, concise expression techniques, simple and profound colors and local characteristics of Jiangnan. Modern famous artists include Hu Xinming, Wang Zhongfu and Yu Qingcheng. In addition, Fengxiang in Shaanxi, Baigou River in Hebei, Huqiu in Suzhou and other places are also important producing areas of famous folk clay sculptures.