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What kind of clay is clay sculpture made of?

Use some sticky and delicate loess to make clay sculptures. After beating, throwing and rubbing, sometimes cotton wool, paper and honey are added to the soil.

In order to avoid the influence of light, direct sunlight on clay sculptures is absolutely forbidden. If too much water has been removed, it is usually beneficial to keep it in the dark.

It is best to use artificial light source for lighting, which is convenient to control the illumination and effectively eliminate the damage of light to clay sculpture. It is necessary to prevent the harm of dust, smoke and various harmful gases to clay sculpture. As a personal collection of small and medium-sized clay molds, the above storage items should also be observed.

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After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, folk colored sculptures were loved by ordinary people, the most famous being the clay figurine Zhang in Tianjin and the Huishan clay figurine in Wuxi. It has already gone abroad and become a messenger of cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. It has crossed the ocean and been accepted and loved by more and more countries and people. ?

Although clay sculpture is not based on technology, it does add a new bright spot to your life. Simple, intuitive, real and more "zero distance". The collection time is also very challenging and valuable. In other words, every piece of work is handmade and unique in the world.

There is no infringement such as imitation, copying and piracy, and it is different from other art forms such as oil painting, paper cutting and relief.

Clay sculpture art has a strong visual impact effect, and its appreciation angles are extremely rich and diverse, which is closer to people's lives. Today, with the rapid development of high technology, it is a concrete portrayal of people's pursuit of returning to nature, and it is also the embodiment of people's pursuit of fashion and personality.