Огромная благодарность Angie Scarr за Мастер-класс

Method
1 Making sure your material is very soft, follow the first three steps for the sweetcorn project, first making a skin, then very gently extruding the material from the clay gun so that little bulges form on the surface of the clay. You can work them in either green or black depending on the colour grapes you desire. Carefully run the blade over the surface of the top of the clay gun so that you take off the whole circular skin and leave the metal clean.
2 Curl the circular section of clay in at the sides and fold the top over backwards to form a little triangle as a base for further grapes. Make five or six extra bases and harden them in the oven as a bottom layer for your fruit crate.
3 and 4 Use the clay gun
once again to help you to make grapes of regular sizes. Extrude 2-3mm of the green clay and sever at the metal of the gun. The size you extrude depends on your level of patience rolling the grapes.
5 and 6 A good time- and patience-saving tip is to roll the grapes three or four at a time over your palm. To do this, use a cocktail stick or piece of uncooked spaghetti to pick up and and drop the tiny pieces of clay. If they start off as separate pieces and you use more than one finger, this works well.
Once you have your completed, rolled grapes, gently remove them from your hand onto a plate until you have enough to form a whole bunch.
7 and 8 First add a stalk made from a little olive green clay to the base. Then dab the grapes gently with the end of your finger and place them on the base. Harden the grapes in the oven.



9 and 10 To give the grapes an authentic bloom, dust with a tiny amount of talcum powder or chalk dust.
11 To pack the grapes into a crate, take a little scrunched tissue paper and glue into the crate with PVA wood glue.
12 Glue the simply executed grapes into the base of the crale.
13 Lightly scrunch further small squares ot tissue paper.
14 Glue a bunch of grapes into each paper and curl the comers slightly around the grapes for added realism.
15 Pack six or seven
bunches on top of the bases.