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Our sculptor
Louise Ware will demonstrate how to make a simple sculpture
using water-based clay you can also do this with plasticine
homemade playdough or some other malleable material
the purpose up this exercise is that when you make a structure with your
hands
you study it more carefully and are likely to remember the structure more
accurately
then when you just look at an illustration we are using the seven
cervical vertebra we will start with the round and solid
body a vertebra we then had
the transverse processes as you work
keep checking back to the cervical vertebra Boughner model
study your sculpture from different angles and adjust the angle said your
forms
if they differ from the model here
Louise notices that the angles the transverse processes
need to come forward a bit a bit more perpendicular to the table
so she corrects them the most prominent feature at the seventh cervical vertebra
is the long
spineless process Louise ants this next
the nice thing about working with clay
weirdo is that it can be both and additive or subtracted process
notice how the Wii's takes away clay in places where the volume and some
structure is too great
ants more clay in places that need more brian
next Louise opens up the large
for a min that primary hole through which the spinal cord would pass
she then continues to refine the forms
then she pinches the clay to forward that to superior articular processes
these projections it unlock with an adjacent vertebra
to make the backbone more stable
next louise uses her claim tool to carve out the neural for Amina
that to smaller holes on the sides in the seventh cervical vertebra
the Foreign Minister passage for the vertebral vein
and for sympathetic nerves she notices the way the seventh cervical vertebra
Nestle's
into the sixth and adjusts her sculpture accordingly
to continue refining the ban
keep removing clay in areas where there is too much
and refining the shape to try to mimic the delicacy
and exact forms you're finished sculpture
will likely be a bit different from the phone itself but you can learn a lot
from the process of making it
how does your bone differ from the sculpture
what subtle things you notice about its structures that you didn't see before
you started the sculpture
does this exercise raise new questions
about structure-function relationships we hope that you not only enjoy this
exercise
but that it also helps you to better visualize the structures
and better understand their functions and that you will apply the sculptural
techniques and other aspects of your learning
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