The production process of clay sculpture figures, the production process of clay sculptures

1. Place the soil in a wooden basin or other container, add water and make mud, remove the sand and gravel and debris in the soil with a wire mesh, and then place the mud in the sun to evaporate the excess water to make the soft and hard degree of the plastic mud moderate. In the second step, cut the plastic clay into pieces and wrap it in plastic cloth for later use.

2. Take a number of bamboo skewers of different lengths and widths, sharpen one end of the bamboo skewers, and polish them smooth, and use this method to make several large, medium and small plastic knives. According to the shape of the clay sculpture, a wooden or iron skeleton is made, which can increase the solidity of the clay sculpture and the complexity of the shape.

3. After the mud and the skeleton are ready, you can start the mud, spray water on the skeleton once, so that the mud and the skeleton can be firmly combined, not easy to fall, when the mud is loaded, the mud is piled up on the skeleton one by one, pressed tightly by hand, patted solid, and then added mud layer by layer, and smashed the mud firmly with a mallet or a clay board.

4. When putting on the mud, we should focus on the big picture and start from the whole, and avoid shrinking our hands and feet and falling into the shaping of local details. Sculpture is a three-dimensional entity, each piece of mud must take care of the relationship between various perspectives, to often rotate the sculpture table, constantly observe and compare the mud do not pile up at a time, as long as the pile out of a large shape.

Clay sculpture, also known as "color sculpture" and "clay color sculpture", is a traditional Chinese folk sculpture handicraft. With the development of society and culture, there are two forms of contemporary clay sculptures, one is a small clay sculpture for viewing and playing, such as table statues and children's toys, mainly figures, animals, birds, flowers and fruits; The other is the large and medium-sized clay sculptures of the temple place, which are often made for the religious Buddha of the temple.

After searching for information, the molding of clay sculpture is generally divided into four steps: making children, turning molds, rebirth, and coloring.

Make: make a prototype, find a piece of clay, use carving, plastic, pinch and other techniques to create a good image, after modification, polishing, drying, some places should be burned with fire to strengthen the strength.

Turning mold: pressing the soil on the original shape to print into a mold, there are common single-piece molds and double-piece molds, and there are also multi-piece molds.

Debirth: Use the mold to press the mud figure blank tire, usually the mud is rolled into a sheet first, and then pressed into the mold, and then the two pieces of pressed mud mold are closed and pressed, and then a "bottom" is installed, that is, a piece of mud is glued to the lower part of the mud figure, so that the mud figure is hollow and strict, and a hole is left in the carcass to make the air circulation inside and outside the carcass, so as to avoid the change of air pressure in the tire to destroy the mud tire.

Coloring: Coloring has the saying of "three points of plastic, seven points of color". Generally, a layer of background color is applied before coloring to keep the surface smooth and clean, easy to absorb the painted color, and the painted pigment is multi-colored, and the water glue is adjusted to strengthen the color adhesion.

Prepare materials: clay, pencil, knife.

1. First prepare a small piece of clay, a pencil, and a knife, as shown in the figure below

2. Roll the brown mud into a round ball and use it to make the body of the pot, as shown in the figure below

3. Use a knife to carve a circle horizontally above the ball, as shown in the figure below

4. Then use a small piece of brown to form a round ball, as shown in the figure below

5. Glue it to the lid of the pot, as shown in the figure below

6. Take a small piece and roll it into a thick round bar, as shown in the figure below

7. Bend the round bar and pinch the left end into a pointed one, as the spout is shown in the figure below

8. Then stick it to the body of the pot, as shown in the figure below

9. Take a longer round bar and bend it into a semicircle, as shown in the figure below

10. Stick to the right side of the teapot, and a small teapot children's clay sculpture is made, as shown in the figure below