Figurative Bust Sculpture, Student Work, In-Process

Make sure you place paper under your sculptures when carving to catch debris. 

Feel free to leave entertaining notes with your sculptures. 

Once the clay is dry, you can crush pastel to create a "dust" 

and apply with a dry paintbrush. 

Thin, delicate shapes will need to be built and secured with wire. 

Make sure paper placed between clay sculpture and banding wheel, otherwise your clay sculpture will stick/adhere to the banding wheel. since this sculpture had no paper, portions of the bottom area had to be rebuilt when removed. 

You can apply black ink to the dry sculpture. The result is a metallic/metal finish.