. Art crafts for amateurs . ina village some years ago where there 72 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. work in relief. Or you can start with a drain-pipe as itcomes out of the press, and by pulling out the top—makingit thinner and bending it over, and then put a bottom to itwith feet, as shown in sketch No. 48, a very pleasant shape is obtained. Youcan then decoratethe surface withwork in low found it a goodplan to modelleaves, etc., andthen stick them onthe vase, carefullywetting the clay tomake them can, in fact,roll out your claythin, like dough,and take an actualleaf and shape
. Art crafts for amateurs . ina village some years ago where there 72 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. work in relief. Or you can start with a drain-pipe as itcomes out of the press, and by pulling out the top—makingit thinner and bending it over, and then put a bottom to itwith feet, as shown in sketch No. 48, a very pleasant shape is obtained. Youcan then decoratethe surface withwork in low found it a goodplan to modelleaves, etc., andthen stick them onthe vase, carefullywetting the clay tomake them can, in fact,roll out your claythin, like dough,and take an actualleaf and shape theclay from it, or youcan build up yourdesign straightaway, using your No. made of Drain Pipe Oma- fin§erS t0 fashi°nmerited in Relief with the Biamble. it, for it is a good plan to thumb the clay well, working in a free and somewhat rough who have seen a sculptor make a clay sketch willhave noticed how square and angular he works, and theamateur should bear this in mind, for it is all too easy to. CLAY MODELLING. 73 get smoothness and so-called finish in ones work ; difficulty is to obtain crispness,wooden modelling tools, and onesteel one with a wire scraper (allthese can be had of a good artistscolourman), are all the imple-ments necessary, the ringers doingthe rest. Throw up your chiefobjects, working freely, and tryto avoid thinking of obtainingfinish until the general lines ofthe design are fixed, and thechief masses built up. The dis-position must be resisted of tick-ling up individual forms; this canbe done when the whole of yourdecorative scheme is mapped outon the vase. But dont be afraidof a certain roughness, for youwill find when fired your crisp,angular work is much moreeffective than where everythingis smoothed away like a wax can break up the surfaceof the vase by scratching it withthe point of a tool or by dottingit, but whether this should bedone or not can only be decidedby reference to the particular workin hand. All one c
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