Press for Success: Simple Tips for Hollow Sculpting Ceramic Clay

Simple basic tricks for more effective sculpting with ceramic clay. Besides your hands, easy techniques including pressing with wooden tools to define edges, creases, and layers; finishing with paint brushes; and building complex forms using assembled broomstick pinched hollow forms.

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Thank you for sharing your techniques in a very understandable way! It was very useful.

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My pleasure, and thank you very much for the feedback!

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What tool are you using to hollow the torso? I'd like to find one like it.

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Depending on the scale of the object, you can use a paintbrush handle, wooden dowel, or a hole making tool for ceramics. The unfinished wood of the ceramics tool and wooden dowel is helpful for the clay to release and not stick.