SciFi and Fantasy Art: Allani

Ooooh, a sculpture!! You don't find too many of these here in the woods, you know... I think it's pretty cool that you can both sculpt *and* draw. This is a great piece, it's too bad the kittens broke it!

OOPs! Sorry. Not broken ceramic. Broken clay. You can rewet that and sometimes it will mend. (NEVER HAD IT MEND WELL THOUGH)

I Like it. Now to the problem: Broken Ceramic, If you Want.. You can glue her pieces, then cast her useing one of several methods. The old Plaster mold technic appears to have potential here. (not to make her out of plaster, but you could do that) Wires embedded in the peice lend strength. Using a cast base form helps. As I am basically self taught my terms might not be the same as someone elses.
For fireing your choices seem to be a hollow piece or totally air bubble free. Otherwise they explode.

What kind of clay is this? There are glues available for reassembling raku (pottery) clay before it is fired (I've made some very extensive use of this on greenware... -.-) If you don't want to use glue, try mixing vinegar and clay dust, score the broken parts on the faces you're gonna reattach and very patiently glue them back on (the vinegar mix can be used to fill in any chipped parts too). I do hope you get this fixed, it's really quite lovely. ^_^ (I especially like the musculature of the face)

Very nice- it is a shame when you lose a piese- the baby dragon sculpture in my gallery befell a similar fate Gorgeous looking piece though- I'm sure you could remake it --Laura

Ohh.. So pretty!! In my experencense wiht clay, i had to hollow it out so it would dry evenly. If it dries too fast it cracks.. Just my advice! But this is soo cute! Don't give up! Your very good at sculpting!

Wow, this is so amazingly beautiful. She looks like a ki'rin (isn't that what the Japanese unicorns are called?). The garden in the background is so pretty! Great work.

I'm probably about 6 years too late but here's a trick I learned about broken/cracked dry clay pieces. Drying slowly is a must of course. The horn and ear are thin and get a lot more airflow so I'd have wrapped (lightly, loosely) those parts with a damp paper towel and plastic while exposing the rest. If it's all very damp and wobbly I'd just use the plastic and spritz it if it's drying faster than the head.

If it's all dry and something cracks, rewet a good portion of the sculpture and make slurry our of clay and water the thickness of pancake batter. You've probably hear the whole 'score both sides before re-adhereing' thing and that's very important but the trick is adding seeds from a cat-o-nine-tails reed to the slurry. The thin, fiberous seed fluff makes a web structure that works like superglue as it dries between the repaired crack. Apply the slurry lightly and be sure the broken pieces fit snuggly back in place.

I love this piece, I'm really sorry it didn't manage structurally because the artwork is beautiful!

That's a nice piece of sculpture. I know all about large pieces of ceramics cracking and breaking. I did a whole dragon once that was about the size that you're working at here, and even after diligently hollowing it out the left wing popped off during firing. With the help of my ceramics teacher I was able to glue it back on and today it looks alright if a little rough in spots. Anyway working clay is fun, and you've done a beautiful job here.

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