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Paper clay is handmade or commercially available clay to which a small percentage of processed cellulose fiber is added. The fiber increases the tensile strength of the dry clay and enables dry-to-dry and wet-to-dry joins. Commercial paper clays air-dry to a firm, lightweight sculpture, with minimal shrinking during the drying process. [4]
Ceramic art, Sculpture John Mason (March 30, 1927 – January 20, 2019) was an American artist who did experimental work with ceramics . [ 1 ] Mason's work focused on exploring the physical properties of clay and its "extreme plasticity". [ 2 ]
Jun Kaneko (金子 潤, Kaneko Jun, born 1942) is a Japanese-born American ceramic artist known for creating large scale ceramic sculpture. [2] Based out of a studio warehouse in Omaha, Nebraska , Kaneko primarily works in clay to explore the effects of repeated abstract surface motifs by using ceramic glaze .
Jun Nishida in front of his kiln. Jun Nishida (西田潤, Nishida Jun, 1977 – March 26, 2005) was a Japanese ceramicist.He is best known for his massive conceptual pottery pieces, which experiment with the material capacities of clay and the imaginative forms that ceramics could take amid the intense thermochemical conditions of the kiln.
Grog, temper for clay. Grog, also known as firesand and chamotte, is a raw material usually made from crushed and ground potsherds, reintroduced into crude clay to temper it before making ceramic ware. It has a high percentage of silica and alumina. It is normally available as a powder or chippings, and is an important ingredient in Coade stone.
Ceramic forming techniques are ways of forming ceramics, which are used to make everything from tableware such as teapots to engineering ceramics such as computer parts. Pottery techniques include the potter's wheel , slip casting and many others.
The company was founded to supply basic media for sculptors such as clays, various stone materials, and many types of wood, as well as tools needed to work on sculpting materials. [2] The company also began offering product demonstrations and classes: stone carving, wood carving, clay work, wax work, foam sculpting, and multimedia workshops. [2]
Slip is a liquid clay suspension of mineral pigments applied to the ceramics before firing. Slips are typically red, buff, white, and black; however, Nazca culture ceramic artists in Peru perfected 13 distinct colors of slips. They also used a hand-rotated turntable that allowed all sides of a ceramic piece to be painted with ease.