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Hi All,

 

I am making medium-large sized (at least two foot tall) self-portrait clay figures with my high school ceramic students. We are about 60% complete thus far in the construction. We have hands, feet, and heads mostly left to construct and assemble. This project is difficult and has a lot of issues that can arise. My questions are these: 

 

Does anyone have any experience in making larger sized figured? If so, any recommendations?

 

How about clay hands and shoes/feet? How can they get constructed? I saw a good youtube demo on hand constuction but not a whole lot on feet or shoes. 

 

Any tips for drying and bisque- firing these sculptures? I think getting these sculptures into the kiln when bone dry is going to be tough. We are using cone 06 low fire clay.

 

 

Advice is greatly appreciated!

 

~Dianna 

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If you're loading them into a top-loading kiln, it may be easier to unstack the kiln rings, set the piece on the kiln floor, then re-stack the rings, assuming you're comfortable with taking apart your kiln.

 

Dry slowly. Don't rush it. Hollow, mostly closed forms will still have a lot of moisture inside when they look dry on the outside. When you fire them, do a long preheat, like 12 hours or more, to make sure everything is totally dried out. It would be a shame to blow up something with that much work in it.

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