Directions. 1. Using the needle nose pliers, create a body frame (one strip of with with two arms and two legs) from the wire. 2. Take a pinch of clay and form in an oval and apply as a foot by ...

The film demonstrates the process of sculpting a clay portrait, detailing the importance of armatures, measurements, and techniques used to create a three-dimensional representation. The sculptor ...

I built a wire armature based on skeletal diagrams, and then stuffed it with foil. I used foil to fill out the body because it’s lighter than clay, and less expensive. Step 2 ...

When Shirley Ruuska-Brown earned an invitation to her first Sculpture in the Park show in 1998, she was a relatively unknown artist who had just begun to make mixed-media sculptures of wire, clay and ...