Clay and Wood

I've finally started my study of combining wood and clay forms.  For the past couple days I have been looking through books on form line design and creating wood cutouts of classic Coast Art shapes for imprinting in clay. I've only just begun but I have found that bigger shapes are not only more aesthetically pleasing but I then have to opportunity to carve into the clay. Here are a couple preliminary pictures, more to come! This is a bit of a picture overload but mixed in are a couple sketches I did for shapes to cut.