Pinch Pot Animals
Susan Halls
Pinch pots are the unsung heroines of ceramics. Often dismissed as lumpy and limited, the pich pot is actually a sophisticated form in disguise. Not at all the pointless, wobbly result your first school clay encounter might have been!
I’ll show you how the simple cup shape of a pinch pot can be adapted to make a variety of fun animal heads and masks. Then combining the cup shape to make more complex, composite hollow forms. These hollow shapes offer countless options for creating animal sculptures – pigs (a personal favourite) elephant, dogs, hedgehogs, monkeys, rabbits, birds – just some of the ideal subjects for this technique.
How to add legs, necks and heads of differing types plus exploring the smaller expressive details such as ears, eyes, beaks and noses, all important elements that help bring individual personality to your pieces.
Pinch pot making should be a methodical, low tech, low stress way of making successful animal sculptures in clay.
Plus you will get three class PDFs and a photo of tools I use.
The class is ready to join and watch immediately.