putting detail

Putting detail to our totems was a long and exhausting task. At first, I couldn't really figure out how I was going to put on all the detail. I decided that the easiest way to put detail on my totem was to basically stick it on.

What I did was role up some clay to form a worm, then shape it like a fish. I then added a tail and an eye. I did this image on two sides of my clay totem to make it look sort of like 3-D. The image that I was trying to make out was a fish swimming freely in the ocean instead of it being caught in fishing nets or the fish being stuck in a plastic bag.

The other two sides of my totem that I put detail on were about what I just said a couple of sentences ago. I would make long lines in the clay (which is the fishing net) and then put on little fish so that it looks like the fish are stuck and caught up in the net.