Hi guys and welcome back to my channel, Blue Nose Trading. My name is Tori Solis, and today I going to be continuing the saga of sculpting out terracotta chickens. I'm trying to get rid of this terracotta clay because I don't love working with it. But I still have a bunch left, so I'm just going to keep making these chickens until I don't have any of this clay left. Then I will probably keep making chickens, but out of clay that I don't hate so much.
This chicken is a revolution in the saga of chickens. It has a different style of feathers. Each one is sculpted and then smooshed into a scored surface. It's kind of fun. It takes a really long time to make them this way but, thankfully, I'm more focused on quality over quantity. I'm going to keep making them this way.
I have a couple in these series where I experimented with adding in the black clay every other feather, but I kinda forgot to do that with this one. But it's going to happen. Eventually they are all going to be done like this. These are sculpted onto a wheel thrown bowl. I threw the bowls beforehand and then sculpted out the pieces afterwards.
I'm hoping to have some of these available at some point during my Dallas market season this year. So if you're in the Dallas area, you might be able to get ahold of one of these chicken pots. I'm not really sure if I am going to be willing to sell them online because of how fragile they are. Especially these earthenware ones. They are a little bit more fragile than the stoneware ones, but they are going to breathe really well. These are all planters. They have holes in the bottom and they are made out a a breathable terracotta.
I also came up with a new design for the wings. I am sculpting out each individual feather and then layering them on together. I think I like this style better than the single piece wings that I was doing before. With the tail feathers, I rolled out 3 individual feathers and then stuck them on the backside. I am also really liking the way that is making the feathers work, especially combined with the body feathers that we have going on at this point.
I've been spending a lot of time looking at photos of chickens, people's pet chickens and different kinds of chickens. Looking for different ways to do their faces and their combs. It's really crazy just how many kinds of different styles their combs and faces come in. Chickens are crazy looking sometimes. That gave me a lot to draw on while I was sculpting this guy. I lowered his waddle down, and was experimenting with different ways to do the faces.
A little more touching up here and I can say that this guy is done. So if you like the way this rooster turned out, go ahead and give this video a thumbs up. If you'd like to see a weekly art video and follow along with my ceramic journey you can subscribe to this channel, Blue Nose Trading. If you'd like to gain early access to my YouTube videos, as well as exclusive content, you can find me at patreon.com/bluenosetrading, and I will see you guys next week!
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