How to do manual work with yellow mud?

Remove impurities from the soil directly from the ground, tamp it with mallets and sticks, and tamp it manually. If possible, it can be processed by ramming mud. If the mud is too wet, it should be placed in a well-ventilated place indoors to dry it to a suitable humidity. Mud that is too dry should be mashed, put into a container, soaked in appropriate amount of water, and then mashed. Finally, it is best that the mud has moderate hardness and does not stick to hands. The treated mud should be placed in a cylinder or other container and covered with a wet cloth or plastic cloth to maintain a certain humidity for later use.

2. Build an internal framework

Wood, wood blocks, iron wires, steel bars, nails, etc. Usually used to build bones. The bones of clay sculpture, like human bones, play the role of support and connection, which is the basic condition of clay sculpture and can not be ignored.

Take the skeleton as an example:

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3. Big mud pile

After the mud and skeleton are finished, you can start painting the mud. Spray water on the skeleton first, so that the mud can be firmly combined with the skeleton and is not easy to fall off.

When loading mud, pile the mud blocks on the skeleton one by one, compact them by hand, pat them down, then add mud layer by layer and tamp them down with a mallet or clay board.

When dealing with mud, we should focus on the overall situation, start with the whole, and avoid being timid and falling into the shaping of local details.

Sculpture is a three-dimensional entity. Every time you add a piece of mud, you should take care of the relationship between different perspectives. You should always rotate the sculpture table and constantly observe and compare it. You don't have to pile up the mud at once, just pile it into a big shape.

4. Deep forming

On the basis of large modeling and accurate proportion, we can enter the stage of deep shaping.

With the deepening of parts and details, the volume of clay sculpture is gradually in place.

In the process of in-depth shaping, we should constantly adjust and grasp the relationship between the whole and the part, handle the relationship between the part and the detail, and also scrutinize it repeatedly, and always grasp the principle of "whole-part-whole". As long as the whole is grasped accurately, some parts can be done correctly and some parts can be done accurately, which will enrich and improve the whole.

When describing parts in depth, people tend to be very focused, and when a surface is formed for too long, they often forget to turn the sculpture table. The more detailed, the easier it is to flatten the volume. Therefore, attention should be paid to maintaining the overall observation and molding.

In addition, we should pay attention to the symmetry relationship and draw the center line on the clay sculpture for inspection, comparison and correction.

Adjustment and unification

In the in-depth stage, it is inevitable that some local details are too prominent, the big turn of form is weakened, and there is a lack of coherence between forms or rigid handling. In the stage of adjustment and unification, it will be adjusted to the overall relationship.

In the process of making clay sculptures, we should pay attention to spraying water on them frequently, especially in summer, water is easy to volatilize, so that the clay sculptures can always be kept at an appropriate degree of dryness and wetness, so as to shape the characters. If the temperature is low in winter and the clay sculpture is not insulated or frozen, the whole clay sculpture will crack, so it is necessary to work in a warm indoor studio so that the clay sculpture will not crack. After each work is finished, you should wrap the clay sculpture with plastic sheets and let it crack.