To make your sculpture more realistic, add texture to its surface. Use tools like brushes or sponges to create patterns that ...

For every work of art that Brie Ruais makes, she starts with her body weight in clay, bringing new meaning to the term “life-size” sculpture. The Brooklyn-based artist pushes, pulls, and scrapes the ...

Pins and Needles is a column about making useful Texas-themed crafts at home. That’s how I approach many things in my life. The week’s project, for example, involved clay sculpting, something that ...

Sculptor Robert Pulley has spent decades creating metal-like clay sculptures. Sculptor Robert Pulley has spent decades balancing a teaching career while creating a dizzying number of sculptures in all ...

Roxanne Swentzell's "Put Down the Man Baby"(right) stares past Christina Cordova's "Eva XV," at the Clay Studio's exhibit of human scale sculptures, "Figuring Space." (Emma Lee/WHYY) George Rodriguez ...

HELENA — For a clay sculptor, Anton Alvarez seems to have a lot of industrial-looking metal in his studio at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena. In fact, the assortment of metal is the first thing ...

Artist Murjoni Merriweather is gifted with a rare ability: the potter’s touch. With just dirt and water in her hands, she is able to form life-like images of the Black men, women, and children we see ...

Nuala Creed, the artist behind a collection of ceramic sculptures of archivists, sits next to her works in the Great Room of the Internet Archive. Photo by Junyao Yang on Jan. 7, 2025. The Great Room ...