How to stain a clay sculpture using oil paint

Today we're going to use artesolvent and oil paint to create a stain for your sculpture. I'm using Van Dyke Brown, but you can use any color you want. Put the color you desire in a plate, mix it with some thinner, and make sure you use plenty of thinner. I don't like to put it straight up and make it opaque, I like the transparency that I This sculpture is made out of terracotta, if you want to see the process of building the sculpture, I also have it in the channel. It's one single solid mass that I had to repair because it cracked on the base, but surprisingly it held up. So in this process, you just add one layer at a time, use plenty of thinner, you definitely want to do this outdoors. The thinner is pretty stinky and it lingers in the room. I mistakenly did this indoors and it stunk the room for a good day. Make sure you wear a mask, but you want to make sure it's also well ventilated your room. I have fans going and all of these things, and you probably should wear a mask even though I'm not wearing one here. Use your brush and try to get into the crevices. If you use thinner and you use plenty and you put it in a cup, it just kind of drips down, but it pours into the terracotta, so it does stain it pretty well, but it basically becomes a little bit too thin, and I like just building it up. Some of the things that people would forget is the anatomy looking up, so as if you're in the ground level looking up, so once in a while, get on the floor and look up to see if you've missed anything. Our first coat is in, and the sculpture looks pretty decent, you can see there's still some weird spots that we have to take care of, and the parts where we use spackling to fix the sculpture, you can tell there's like some crack problem there, and we are going to add a little bit more so we can correct that, and you should not be able to see any of the cracks in the sculpture. I let it dry overnight, and now I am adding the second coat. This time I was smart enough to do this outdoor, so I took it in my patio, and here I am doing all of this. Staining sculptures is something that you have to do as a sculptor. I don't do it too often because I like the way terracotta looks, but since this one cracked, I was forced to make the corrections, glue it together, and stain it, and I'm glad I did because it looks like a pretty good sculpture. Thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next video.