Article · Making Meaning
Hollowing a Ceramic Sculpture
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2012
About this lesson
A figurative sculptor explains her method for hollowing large hand-built forms: cutting angled access holes at leather-hard, working from multiple openings to bring walls to an even thickness, marking pieces for reassembly, and adding air holes before scoring and slipping the sections back together.
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