Having little time to work with sculptural process, I focused on creating a clay bust of a fellow teacher. This was quite a learning process, and really forced me to concentrate on my knowledge of anatomy and proportion. This picture demonstrates to problems I was having with differential drying properties of the clay I was using.
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Having worked in clay for 24 years, my advice would be to wet and compress newspaper in the most basic of head shapes, then build your clay around that.
It is obvious the clay dried much too quickly and I would consider draping an open plastic bag over it to slow down the process.
In my experience,if you were going to fire this, it would have to be done very slowly. Despite what most people think, if the clay is dry, then fired SLOWLY ENOUGH, it will not crack or blow up.
Clarence
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