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Clay Face Masks
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How to handbuild a clay face mask to hang on the wall.
Make a ball of newspaper to apply equally a hump mold (about the size of a grapefruit).
Cut generous pieces of the Terra Cotta clay off the dirt block for each participant.
Make a mask! No tools! Your fingers and hands are your greatest tools.
Do not put eyes or a mouth on your mask.
You lot take 5 minutes to make this mask.
The mask needs to be the same thickness everywhere, about ane/2" thick.
No h2o – push button the dirt together if you demand to add together something.
At v minutes Cease! And then ask the participant to pass their mask on their board to the person on their right. They have 5 minutes to work on their mask in front of them. Don't forget ears and hair!
At five minutes Terminate! Ask them to pass it i to their right one time more. Then denote they have 5 minutes to work on their mask.
At v minutes Cease. Inquire them to pass their mask two people to the left, which brings dorsum their original mask which they may or may not recognize.
Give them ten minutes to work on their mask.
With a fettling knife, cut straight lines through the dirt horizontally, beyond the middle of the socket expanse, to create the size of an eyeball. At the middle of where the mouth should exist, cutting a horizontal line through the dirt to create the length of the mouth.
One time the lines are cut, turn the mask over and push out from backside the middle of the cuts, making infinite for the eyes and opening the mouth. The mouth may need some shaping and the lips may need some smoothing, depending on the thickness of the clay.
Wash the red clay from your hands.
Have white dirt and roll ii matching eyeballs for the appropriate size for your mask.
Fashion teeth (out of white clay) with a wide gum line so you can attach them from behind. A long tongue (out of white dirt) tin can also be made at this time.
Take the white eyeballs and insert them one at a time into the opening of the eye from behind, pushing them into place and smoothing/attaching them on the back side of the mask into the red dirt.
To finish the eyes, use a circular piece of plastic (top of a Sharpie marker works well) to ascertain the iris.
The pupil can be either carved out or, with a pen part, press some other small-scale round circle into the clay.
The teeth can exist put in from backside and attached, making them every bit realistic or funny as yous want. Tongues, cigars, pipes, etc. tin add to the graphic symbol of the slice.
Across the back of the mask, add dirt loops or holes, and connect them with a wire so mask volition hang on the wall.
Add finishing details to mask.
Add colour while the masks are however wet. Underglazes and vitreous engobes piece of work perfectly for this. They are made mostly of clay and enable brushing onto the wet clay. They compress with the dirt as information technology dries without popping off. Use underglazes right out the container. In one case the underglaze is on, do sgraffito piece of work on the surface by cutting through the colored underglaze back to the cherry clay. Let the underglaze or engobe fix up a bit and stiffen earlier cutting through it.
Mixing a vitreous engobe to be used only on wet clay:
One part low burn white casting slip
One part underglaze
One part clear low burn down glaze
TIP: Marker the outside of the container to identify colour because the greyness color of the casting sideslip tends to dominate the colour.
When mask is dry, bisque fire to cone 04. To distinguish mask even more, castor clear coat on the optics, lips, teeth and natural language and do a glaze fire to cone 05.
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