What is the content of clay in clay sculpture?

Clay sculpture adopts red clay with strong viscosity and less sand content.

Clay sculpture, commonly known as colored sculpture, is an ancient and common folk art in China folk tradition. That is, folk handicrafts that shape clay into various images. 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, coat it with base powder, and then color it.

1, clay has fine particles, strong plasticity, good bonding, suitable shrinkage and high fire resistance, so clay is the foundation of porcelain. It mainly includes porcelain clay, pottery clay and refractory soil.

2. Clay sculpture is made of red clay, filter screen, modeling props and gouache. 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, coat it with base powder, and then color it.

3. The production process is as follows: selecting mud, selecting red clay with strong viscosity and less sand; Sun-drying clay, stirring twice, filtering three times to make fine mud embryo, and beating repeatedly until the clay has toughness; Mould and make clay figurines by machine or hand.

4, dry in the shade, dry clay figurine; Paint after drying in the shade, use various colors on the clay figurine, usually gouache, and then fix the color with varnish.