Dr. K Clay ​Pottery
       

NOTES:
Adding to a  face mug:

-smile lines

-lips are tapered could flattened out before attachment and molding

-chins are an inside down curve and pouched out underneath the curve

-helps to hand build on foam!

 

BIRD MUGS:

-use dowel to make round eye sockets

-then add beak which is made ahead and the line is carved with an Exacto knife when leather hard

• then roll a coil and use a       toothed rib to attach it

• Sink eye sockets with        water, add horizontal slit

• - then push out the     eye socket above the eyes for volume

• Use wooden orange stick to form eyelids

• Add eyeballs and then the iris. Use the pencil point to add pupil. Eyeballs can be porcelain.

• -mold inward around bottom of beak on the sides to give more definition

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FOR OWL:

-Cut back of a beak at     an angle and curve the beak way down

 

MY PRACTICE VESSEL:

#1.  Eyes first then beak. By accident,I scraped off part of an eye putting on the beak.

 

#2.  Eye sockets with a ball of clay and then did beak. Used only one ball for eye and placed it with a pencil. Worked well!  Texture=toothed sewing roller wheel

 

#3. Texture= toothbrush. Larger eyeballs of clay to get more feminine look. I flattened  the big balls of clay on backside before attaching.