Finishing the Sculptural SHOE in Clay- Phase 3: Detailing and Final Touches!

This video is part of the series I have made showing my students how to create a sculptural clay shoe. We will be using soft slabs and coils to create these dynamic sculptures.

This video demonstrates the final finishing and detailing on the shoes. I do show a sample slab of textures at the beginning of the video, which shows different textures and applications which may come in hand. The shoes should be covered with a heavy towel to allow for slow even drying to prevent cracking.

Video 1 in series: Create the Patterns for the Shoes    • Creating a Shoe Pattern for Making a ...  
Video 2 in series: Assembling the Clay Shoe from Patterns    • Assembling the Sculptural Shoes in Cl...  
Video 3 in series: Cleaning and refining the leatherhard shoe    • Making a Sculptural SHOE in Clay   Ph...  
Video 4 in series: Detailing and Finishing the shoes    • Finishing the Sculptural SHOE in Clay...  
Video 5 in series: 3 ways to finish the shoes using oxides and glazes    • Видео  


I have a playlist of all the videos I will be using for this project located here:

   • Sculptural Clay Shoes- Ceramics I  


If you would like to order one of the handmade tools we use for the toe portion, you can find them on my Etsy shop here: https://www.etsy.com/KaransPotsAndGla...

For the great tools I used in the video (including the mudtools shedders, ribs, and kemper mini ribbon tools) check out this link to a live Googledoc I continually update with lots of my favorite tools on Amazon using my associate links! (also some non-amazon suggestions on here!)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X...

I am a public high school ceramics teacher at William Mason High School in Mason, Ohio. (Mason is currently the largest high school in Ohio!) As a potter, I have been working in clay for over 30 years, and I have been teaching for over 29 years, the past 20 + have been specifically teaching high school ceramics. I love what I do! I have my own studio in my home basement, where I work on my personal pottery for my Etsy site; https://www.etsy.com/shop/KaransPotsA...

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