Work in progress and cataloging the process as I go.
I began with several clay slips mixed with different colors. I worked in layers by pouring a colored slip on the molding bats and allowing it to dry before pouring on the next layer of Clay slip.
I interchanged with strips of cloth materials.
This image is of the layers dried out overnight and cut into square pieces. I layered them placing other clay structures I had dipped in clay slip and allowed to dry.
There is cardboard, cloth strips, hessian layered in with dipping glazes and Lava /crater glazes.
It is fully assembles and placed in a Sager before it is fired in the kiln.
People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.
Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiraling in a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies.
made some shidou + mahiru figures using air-dry clay! it took me 4 days to make (i kept painting and repainting mahiru, shidou kept falling to the floor so i had to clean him multiple times), but they're done! i don't have any process pictures though, i was to focused haha
more pictures under the cut because i really like them
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shidou with the world's largest bow
mappi with a blankie
shidou goes outside! (pretend there is some nice clouds there)
i actually lost one of mahiru's hands while i was taking the pictures lmaoo (crying)
I just realized iv never posted the horrible tiny little creature that stays on my desk 24/7 (silly binah figure i made out of microwavable clay and acrylic paint)