黏土人物是怎么做出来的【汉英对照】

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by Micah Newman


For the last couple years I have been making characters out of clay. I do it because clay is fun to work with. I like working with crafts and I am good at it.
最后的几年以来我一直用粘土做东西。 我做它，因为粘土是要与合作的有趣。 我喜欢与工艺合作，我擅长它。

Maybe you have enjoyed making things with clay. Maybe you have seen clay animation characters on television and wondered how they did that. Here's one way to make a clay cartoon man.

或许，你也准备用粘土做一些的事情。 或许，你看见粘土动画性格在电视上并且想知道他们怎样做那。 这是做一个粘土漫画人的一种方法
To get started, all you need is some colored modeling clay and a toothpick. You can buy the clay at your local crafts store.
为了开始，你需要的全部是一些有色模型化粘土和一根牙签。 你能买粘土在你地方工艺商店。（可以在本版找到有关大陆各不同地方买粘土的地方）

1. First, take a chunk of flesh colored clay about the size of a walnut and make an upside down T shape. Use a toothpick to poke two round holes in the head a little smaller than peas.

1.首先，花费肉色大约一个胡桃的大小的粘土，并且打一个头朝下T 形状。 使用一牙签在在头内的周围戳两比豌豆一点小的洞。

2. Roll 2 small, round white balls a little smaller than peas, also. Put them in the holes. Make 2 tiny black balls and place them on the white balls. Flatten gently.

2.在2个洞，做两个白色小豌豆球。 把他们放进洞。 做2 个极小的黑色的球并且将他们放于白色的球上。 轻轻的使它变平。

3. For the nose, roll a medium sized ball about the size of a pea and put it in the middle of the face just below the eyes. For the mouth, use the toothpick to make a curved line.

4. For the ears, flatten 2 flesh colored balls and poke a hole in them with the toothpick. Fasten them onto the side of the head with gentle pressure.

5. For the hands, make 2 pancakes and 8 small log shapes for fingers. Connect the fingers to the pancakes for hands.

6. For the shirt, roll 2 logs for arms and stick them onto a squarish torso. Use any color. The body shouldn't be too square.

7. For the legs, roll a large log and bend. Use any color.

8. The feet are 2 rectangular oval shapes.

9. Connect head, body, legs, hands, feet.

10. For hair, flatten a ball of brown or black clay and put over the head, or yellow if your cartoon man is blonde.

Once you get good at making people, you can make whole families, or armies, or the history of the human race.

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Micah Newman: Producer, Director, Screenplay, Cameraman, Editor
Christina Newman: Associate Producer, Screenplay, Associate Editor

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May 22, 1999 Duluth News Tribune: "Want to see the creative work of a 12-year-old? Check out the hundreds of clay figurines created by Micah Newman of Solway Township that are on display at the Children's Museum in the Depot. Interested in the Civil War, Newman created figures depicting battlefield and camp life for Union and Confederate armies, including numerous styles of uniforms, battle and period dress. Newman's 'Orcs and Humans' collections, inspired by Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' Series and another, based on the Redwall series by Brian Jacques, bring you to other ers and worlds. Newman's work is on display through June."

Micah's agile fingers have been molding clay in his mother's pottery studio since before he can remember. His presentation of military uniforms through history won Grand Prize at the St. Louis County Fair in 1998.

In a feature story Joan Farnum of the Duluth Budgeteer wrote, "Micah's figurines aren't just haphazardly put together... They're often based on books he's read, or particular characters he wants to develop.

"The detail in the tiny Civil War sculptures is almost unbelievable, and it only took him about ten minutes to make each of them.

"All the details of life have been reproduced so well that it's like having a bird's-eye view back in time. Everything from canteens with leather straps, piles of hard tack and donkeys tiredly pulling carts have been reproduced here."