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Let go of your stress while playing around with clay.
That’s what I did today with this sculpture of a Giant’s face.
Clay is intuitive, it feels good in the hands, and there’s no pressure if you never intend to keep it as a permanent sculpture. If life is stressing you out, grab some wet clay and have fun with it. 🙂
This is not a tutorial, obviously. I just needed some DIY art therapy, and decided to turn on the camera while I threw some clay around. 🙂
Links for stuff mentioned in the video:
- I used my sculpting form to get started, but if you’re looking for even easier ideas be sure to check out my book called Fast Faces: Unleash Your Creativity With a Friendly Lump of Clay, available on Amazon.com here:
- If you’d like to use my face sculpting form, you can find it here.
- For that super-easy stand that I made to hold up the clay.
- The Giants book that I’m using for inspiration. It looks like it’s currently out of print, but you might be able to get a used copy.Â
- WED clayÂ
Clay from your local pottery supply store is fun to work with, too – and it’s a lot less expensive. - Check out my sculpting patterns for paper mache here.
When I get a few more hours to play around, I’ll fix the forms on the Giant’s head, make him look a little less menacing, and add his helmet. That nose is bugging me, too – and he needs some curls in his beard.Â
Do you have a special way to use art as a way to let go of the world for a little while? Any tips for us? Let us know in the comments below. 🙂
When your project is giving you a hard time it is a great idea to let it rest a bit and decompress with something else, playing around with clay, having a cup of coffee, chatting away with friends… In wich step of the project is your moose giving you a hard time? Are you working on it as a clay project but with paper mache? or are you trying to make a pattern wich will be reproducible?
Always love to see your projects¡ clay, paper mache… very inspirational¡
Thank you for sharing
Hi Olga. I agree that it is a good idea to walk away from a project, if it isn’t going too well. Some time off might let you get some new ideas. The moose will be one of my patterns, if I can get it to work. His face has some ridges and bumps that are difficult to achieve in cardboard. If the pieces aren’t cut in exactly the right way, they tend to just flatten out all the ridges. I just now finished a new clay model, a bigger one this time. and I’ll start again in the morning. Wish me luck. 🙂