It is a clay recipe from Long Beach State college. Aardvark Clay Co. in Santa Ana CA makes it. I get LBM the M is minus the iron addition. Regular LB clay has enough iron oxide to give it a light red color and a rich brown in reduction firing. It is a very versatile clay body for throwing and sculpting. I threw production Pottery for 17 years and every studio used this clay. I threw over a million pots with this clay and sculpted many large works of art. Aardvark also has a store in Las Vegas.
For future reference, there are 5 gill slits, not 4. (Almost all sharks except for species like the 6 gill and 7 gill sharks, have 5 gill slits.) Also the eyes are smaller and further forward. Also the caudal keel (which you called "these little glides that all sharks have") are only present on a few species. Salmon sharks, Makos, White Sharks, and Whale Sharks for example. It's nice creating a helpful tutorial for sculpting techniques, but your anatomy points and specifically observations about this species are off. If the techniques are the main point, then my observations may be just knit picking or immaterial. But given that you are citing anatomy as if to share facts, you might wish to keep those discussions authentic if you are presenting them as a how to make a realistic white shark tutorial. Just saying... 😉 I like your hammerhead sculpt. With this I am curious to see the end result. So I'll reserve judgement in full. Good luck with future shark sculpts. Cheers!
Thank you for your video! Going to attempt this tomorrow! I was wondering about the wire you use to hold up the shark… Can it be fired and if so could you please tell me what kind? Or is it put in after?
Thank you so much for your reply and advice. I will possibly make a smaller one to give it a try. You make beautiful sharks. Thank you for this tutorial! God bless you Sir!
Thankyou for this tutorial i made a whale following your instructions and i'm really pleased with it 😊 Are you on instagram as your above profile doesn't work ..i can't find you on IG.Many thanks Karen 😊
Thank you very much for your great video! The shark look very good. 👌🏼👏🏼🫶🏻💣⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🙋🏼♀️🇦🇹
excelent job!
Very well made may I say! 👌🏻🤗🙏🏻
That shark with the diver is called "Deep Blue" for your information mate.
She's chunky bc she's pregnant
u are really good at this
amazing
It is a clay recipe from Long Beach State college. Aardvark Clay Co. in Santa Ana CA makes it. I get LBM the M is minus the iron addition. Regular LB clay has enough iron oxide to give it a light red color and a rich brown in reduction firing. It is a very versatile clay body for throwing and sculpting. I threw production Pottery for 17 years and every studio used this clay. I threw over a million pots with this clay and sculpted many large works of art.
Aardvark also has a store in Las Vegas.
Could you try to make a tiger/sand tiger shark?
You are the best teacher
Your teaching is highly appreciated u must be pretty underatted. 17:31 the yellow thing is a sponge?
Thanks for the video!
What type of clay are you using?
LBM from Aardvark clay co
For future reference, there are 5 gill slits, not 4. (Almost all sharks except for species like the 6 gill and 7 gill sharks, have 5 gill slits.) Also the eyes are smaller and further forward.
Also the caudal keel (which you called "these little glides that all sharks have") are only present on a few species. Salmon sharks, Makos, White Sharks, and Whale Sharks for example.
It's nice creating a helpful tutorial for sculpting techniques, but your anatomy points and specifically observations about this species are off.
If the techniques are the main point, then my observations may be just knit picking or immaterial. But given that you are citing anatomy as if to share facts, you might wish to keep those discussions authentic if you are presenting them as a how to make a realistic white shark tutorial. Just saying... 😉
I like your hammerhead sculpt. With this I am curious to see the end result. So I'll reserve judgement in full.
Good luck with future shark sculpts. Cheers!
I stand corrected.
Thank you
Can you do a video on how to make the coral reef stand for the shark plz?!
Don't forget to put the "hook" in the top part of the tail, mate.
Thank you for your video! Going to attempt this tomorrow! I was wondering about the wire you use to hold up the shark… Can it be fired and if so could you please tell me what kind? Or is it put in after?
Did you ever find out?
I used stainless steel rod and glued in place after the glaze firing. The did not go through the firing.
Please, can you tell me if this animal can be made out of air dry clay at all?
yes it can. Those types of clay are sometimes not as malleable. Use water and score your connections really well
Thank you so much for your reply and advice. I will possibly make a smaller one to give it a try. You make beautiful sharks. Thank you for this tutorial! God bless you Sir!
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Thankyou for this tutorial i made a whale following your instructions and i'm really pleased with it 😊 Are you on instagram as your above profile doesn't work ..i can't find you on IG.Many thanks Karen 😊
You are welcome,
Glad you're experiencing success.
I'm not on Instagram at the moment.
what doe your whale look like? Pictures?