Crumpeling Clay

 I wanted to use a different medium to portray my crumpled leaf veins pieces through. I wanted to experiment a bit with trying to get the right textures and effects so I started with the bag of clay that had been resting itself on my desk for the past few weeks. I put the techniques that I had learned from Elaine's 3D workshop to use and got started!

In the 3D workshop that I took with Elaine a few weeks ago we used a heavy duty grease proof paper to get a certain texture in the clay like this:

This was the kind of texture I was looking to achieve again, so starting off I rolled out my slabs of clay and began to texture but I noticed after using the one piece of grease proof paper the texture would not repeat again the paper became useless. To overcome this I did my crumpeling technique with some sheets of paper as I do to create my pieces like this:

And I discovered this was very effective in creating my desired pattern, and this is how it turned out:

Being happy with this I kept texturing slabs, being more and more daring making the slabs bigger each time! By the end I had about 5 slabs, so I picked up my courage and started doing the tricky bit... which was to make the slabs resemble crumpled up paper. After awhile (and a few ripped and pieced back together) slabs later this is what I had:

 

I'm quite happy with how the pieces turned out and hope I have time to get them fired before the Xmas Holliers!