Pottery: Nature Impressions on sign?
I’m making a sign for my pottery class … it has to incorporate textures from nature into it.
I’m having trouble thinking of some good textures to use … I got leaves, small rocks, and I was thinking about tree bark but I think that’d be hard to imprint into clay.
Any ideas for what else I could use from nature to press into clay? Thoughts appreciated, thanks!
You say you are using leaves – which ones? I’ve had good success with big cabbage leaves. The thick parts can look quite architectural. Tree bark wouldn’t be a problem if you could roll out a sheet of clay and keep it damp between layers of plastic, and then take it out to a park. From nature could also include foot and hands prints, and paw prints.
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