How To Make: Tiny Houses (Part 1)
March 2, 2011 § 4 Comments
These are so simple to make, you can do it too! Tiny clay houses so cute and charming. Place them on a windowsill, on your workdesk, anywhere that needs a little whimsy. The first few clay houses I made began on a lazy afternoon, and a chunk of clay that was too hard to throw. I was just mucking around with it, repeatedly dropping it on a surface to make a cuboid shape, and one thing led to another…
(pictures are grainy because I was working at night… it’s really bothering me now, but … ek.)
1. Get a chunk of clay (preferably quite stiff)
this chunk was too wet, but I was impatient...
2. Make it into a cube by picking up and dropping…
Use a steel scraper to sharpen the corners somewhat
3. Slice!
Using a string or wire...
These are about 1 inch thick
4. and slice the other way…
looks like manhattan to me...
5. So now you have some tall cubes… it’s time to shape the roofs…
Lay a block on its side, and GUILLOTINE IT!
Put them on their feet... and there you go...
another roof style:
one chop...
steep roofs
6. So now you’ll have a little city after going through all the blocks…
scrape and clean up the edges as well as you can at this point...
7. Let them set a bit… For this batch, the clay was really wet, so I’m going to leave them overnight to stiffen a bit. Don’t want the shape getting mucked up while I carve them… If your clay is dry enough to hold the shapes, then you can start carving.
Tomorrow: Carving in the details!
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wow! Love this! erm… but where to get clay? makes me feel like trying to play with it too but then I dunno where to fire them and glaze them afterwards wor….. š
hey evelin, you can get clay and fire at Touch of Clay in Segambut – my teacher’s place. If you’re keen, I’ll forward you his number privately. Some day in the future, I hope to have a studio where friends and clay enthusiasts can come work… soon I hope…
cool… yup… you can email me his number š would be fun to get my hands dirty and make some things.. haha… if it is successful, I can display in my house… if not, dunno what I want to do with it! HAHAHAHAHAA….
yeay! I hope you can have your studio soon. I wanna come and play š
for the longest time I thought they were hollow, but this method is genius! Genius I tell you!
I adore them to bits!