Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel
What Will We Do in This Course?
A course by Lilly Maetzig , Ceramist
About the video: What Will We Do in This Course?
Overview
“In this lesson, we will cover exactly what I’ll be showing you in the upcoming units and the things that we’ll be making. ”
In this video lesson Lilly Maetzig addresses the topic: What Will We Do in This Course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel. Learn the entire process of working with clay at home, from the initial design to the final glaze.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, I'm going to go over what we're going to do in this course. The aim of this course is to show you some foundational building blocks and some basic ways to hand build with clay. I spent the last six years playing, teaching myself and working with clay and I'm really excited to teach you some of what I know. Coming up on this course, we're going to cover three basic hand building techniques. And this is going to lead to a reasonably broad understanding of clay. We're going to cover pinch pots, coil pots and slab pots, which are three pretty basic ways of making a pot. And you ...”
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Course summary for: Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel
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Category
Craft -
Areas
Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Ceramics

Lilly Maetzig
A course by Lilly Maetzig
Lilly Maetzig is a ceramist from New Zealand who is based in London. After experimenting with clay in art school, Lilly decided to further her pottery skills with classes and has been sculpting ever since.
Lilly founded her own ceramics brand Mäe Ceramics in 2016. Her work explores the contrast between the texture of raw and glazed clay to expose the natural qualities of her finished objects. She sells her objects through retail and wholesale channels, with most of her customers finding her through Instagram where her work is appreciated by over 45K followers. Her clients include restaurants and cafés around the globe, design shops like Yonobi Studio in Copenhagen, and events like Google Playtime.
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