How to Create a Bas Relief Sculpture out of Paperclay

 

Hello and happy Friday everyone! Cinnamon here and I am going to show
you how I turned this Keith Haring drawing into a sculpted piece. I'm a big 

fan of his fun characters and I wanted to go with something other then

his popular dancing people for this project.

Supplies:

Creative Paperclay®

Wire

Masking tape

Exacto Knife

Sand paper

Acrylic paint

Sealer, Varnish

Whenever I start a sculpture, I begin by building a wire structure called

an armature. I try to make this as close to the actual piece as possible so that I won't have to do as much work later. In this case I also began with a sketch to guide me as shown.

When the form is where I need it to be, I covered it with masking tape so
 that I could apply the clay to it. Make sure that the tape is really snug to
the wire when you apply it.

When you are done with the tape, begin to apply the clay to the tape.

This is the first layer of clay. Set it aside until it dries which would roughly be 

24 hours depending on the conditions of your home. This will be built up in layers.

After the first layer dries, come back and begin to build up the parts that
you would like to be raised. Here I am building up the legs.

When you are done with the second layer of clay, set the piece
aside and allow it to dry.

After allowing the piece to dry, I decided to go in and sand down a few 

pieces on the sculpture to smoothen it out.

When the piece is at the level of smoothness that you desire, start getting

it ready to be painted. Here I am drawing the outline with pencil so that I could 

get my coat of paint on top of the piece.

I am using acrylic paint here, I wanted to make it red but as you can
see I'm still be able to see the pencil outline underneath.

After letting the paint dry, come back and paint the outline of
the piece with black paint.

Here's the finished piece, make sure you spray with a sealer!

 

Thank you all once again for stopping by, and I hope that you enjoyed 

today's tutorial! You can find Creative Paperclay® at the following 

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