Post #680626 by TikiAno on Mon, Jun 3, 2013 3:34 PM

The last video is crazy. Speaking of clay, I started working on one option for the Swap. This piece will most likely be PART of the swap. A bit about the clay, it's brown before it's fired, then turns black after bisqued. I plan on using glaze on the white clay, the background will be black and slightly rough to the touch. I haven't used this clay yet, so looking forward to trying it out- the photos don't quite do it justice, right now it's chocolate brown.

First I wedged this clay, and started working it into a slab:

I had to dry it out a bit (since this is going to be a wall tile), so I sandwiched it between a piece of drywall and a flat side of a plaster mold- to suck up some of the water in the clay:

I trimmed it, got it looking somewhat better, and put it on top of a plastic-wrapped board to work on:

Then I took some white (B-mix) clay, and started making utensils... (I ended up re-working the fork a bit).

and a skull, which I attached to the tile first:


Had to be careful not to get any of the dark brown clay onto the white clay- the skull was cleaned up after it set up on the background. The white specks on the close-up pic is white from a towel I was using to sop up the water I used to connect the two pieces- couldn't use slip since I didn't want extra colors bleeding onto the dark background.

Current result- finger's there to show scale. Now waiting for the clay to dry up, in a day or so I'm going to trim a bit and add some texture. I've already started adding some design to the cutlery. There will be blood dripping off the knife, etc. Once again, while this piece doesn't quite say "cannibal" (or CANNIBAL!) right now, it will soon. Feedback, as always, is appreciated.