Ceramic Sculpture: The Sculptural Process

Here I will show you using ceramic sculpture ideas how I created the contemporary ceramic sculpture “Hermanutus”, the step by step process of making a three dimensional ceramic sculpture.

This is “Hermanutus” or wise one. I used homemade stoneware clay with paper and nylon in it for support. Hermanutus is hollow and measures, 36 X 22inches

20160420_120630 (750x422) - Copy — Starting to form the head on a small armature in the studio, at this point i am just studying a head with little thought of what the end result might be.

I have decided to use an abstract form of the Mantua Skirt, a motif very familiar in my work. I decide to mount the head and now birds are appearing.

20160424_115320 (422x750) - Copy — A hand has appeared and the face has changed completely. Now face is arrogant and looking up.

20160427_144242 (712x750) — Three birds a hairdo and an egg have appeared. I feel that the form is almost arrived.

20160429_132254 (572x750) — yep, here she is. Almost ready to dress with slips, engobes and underglazes.

20160503_094907 (750x739) — Hermanutes ready to be bisque fired. The colors are actually minerals mixed with clay and a few other things.

Finished with a lead crackle at cone 1