Lesson 27: Swan

Reminders:

1. As you watch the video, you can pause to give yourself more time. You can watch certain parts over and over.
2. You can do any of these lessons with polymer clay or natural clay. Use whatever works for you! If you choose to use natural clay, be sure to have it prepped and ready to go. In other words you may need to moisten your natural clay.

If your swan turns out to look more like a goose, that's okay. In order to keep the head from sagging, the neck must be left thick enough and that might look more like a goose. Either way is fine.

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More from the course creator:

36 basic lessons for beginners to learn about clay modeling. All 36 lessons take a student from start to finish with each project, starting simply in order to develop the skills and dexterity needed for some more complicated projects later on. The projects are all suitable to be performed with either natural clay or polymer clay and both of these clays are used in different lessons as a demonstration.

This course focuses only on the modeling, not any of the various "finishing" procedures that could be undertaken, such as kiln firing, glazing, drying, painting, etc. In this course we just model the different projects by hand and with a very simply plastic sculpting tool that can be purchased inexpensively from any craft store.

This course is suitable for any age from 6 up. That being said, people have different abilities; so an adult may choose to simplify a project for a student who struggles. For example, the last lesson in this course is a diamondback rattlesnake. The snake body, even the tail, would be achievable by almost all students, but the diamondback patterning on the body can be much more challenging. So, a parent/teacher may choose to leave out the patterning and just stop with the body shape. In this way, the lessons can be adapted to meet the students optimally.