Sculpture is possible with all available materials. You can fold paper, carve, saw or join wood, join different materials in one piece, weld, forge, emboss iron, mold clay, cast bronze or synthetic material, glue various things, work with glass, whatever you want.

But only practice makes perfect. So, when he doesn’t have experience with a certain material, his sculpture should benefit from other things that he does very well. When carving wood, for example, he must take into account the angle of the grain. You use your chisel at a certain angle, the grain directs the amount of wood you can cut. By studying ancient woodwork, you will learn and understand why certain shapes were chosen. When you work with clay, it can take a while before you can make the skin as smooth as you want or make it as rough as you need to. Working with bronze requires a separate technique. First making a wax model, creating a mold for casting, is completely different than ceramics.

It can be frustrating when you want to try to work with previously unknown material. But you can also turn that limitation to your advantage. The advantage of using different materials is that they all create their own environment. The concept of wood is different from that of concrete, bricks are not like plastics, bronze contrasts with clay. Use that in your sculpture.

If you work with found materials, your wonder at these treasures you found will play an important role in the work you do with them.

The most important thing when sculpting is to feel free, also with the material you choose. You can try to explore your technical constraints, but you can also enlist the help of an expert with adequate knowledge of the material you want to work with. Make sure you choose someone who is really skilled, creative, and has a lot of imagination.

It is also possible to choose a particular type of material and master it in such a way that you can express yourself in all possible ways with it.

But the base of the sculpture remains the same. It’s about shape, skin composition, concept. Your personal creation and its commentary on current humanity, thus expressing a universal feeling or your own universal truth.

You can make your own statue any way you like. Isn’t that great?