Clay Modelling

With our hectic and busy life schedules, most of us have started to indulge ourselves in stress-relieving hobbies. While some of the activities like meditation, yoga, and sports have become popular in between us but an emerging hobby is clay art or clay modeling.

Clay is one of the most versatile, easy to handle substance which is used for sculpting. Clay is used by the beginners as well as by the professional sculptors to design and mould beautiful models. It holds flexibility and thus it is used for sculpting and modeling.

The models that are formed using the clay are actually very soft. These models are then heated in the high temperatures so as to get its final hard shape.Clay modeling is a stress reliever activity. If you create something on the verge of your dopamine, then it can literally make you happy. In addition to this, sculpting models out of clay requires a lot of patience and hand co-ordination, which further makes it perfect activity that can be pursued in your free time.

How clay modeling came into existence?

In earlier times, clay didn’t come into origin as an art. Rather, clay was considered as a necessity than a modeling material. Earlier, clay was used to make the objects that were used in the day to day usage. But the production of utensils that were made out of clay bought a change in the cooking ways. Thereafter, clay was used to cook food, food was also served in the utensils made out of clay and also, it was used to store water. With these innovations, people upgraded their standard of living.

These are some of the clay art modeling tools that we use?

• Wire tipped tool: In this tool, a wire is attached to the wooden stick. This tool is used for creating wrinkles in the models.
• Twisted wire rake: In this tool, two of the twisted wires are bent in a loop and then it is attached to a wooden holder.
• Guitar Loop: To make this tool, an old guitar string is used for making the loop and then it is attached to the wooden holder.
• Fine Loop: To make this tool, a thin metal strip is bent so as to make a loop which is then attached to the wooden holder. This tool is used for defining the fine details in the structure.
• Mini Wire brush: It is a brush with the metal bristles.
• Potter’s wheelfor water-based clay: It is a wheel that is spin much faster to give the clay a nice shape.

ODE Craft has mastery in clay modelling and we are leading provider of clay models of different size and shapes in India. As clay art is appreciated by many, so you can also develop this art or contact our team for the same.