Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel
Setting Up
A course by Lilly Maetzig , Ceramist
About the video: Setting Up
Overview
“You are about to learn some basic skills of hand-building forms with clay. But first, I am going to show you how to set up a workspace for yourself at home.”
In this video lesson Lilly Maetzig addresses the topic: Setting Up, 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
“I'm going to teach you some basic skills of hand building with clay. But first, I'm going to show you how to set up a workspace for yourself at home. To begin with, We're going to need a porous work surface to work on. So something like wood that is untreated like MDF or ply. And if you don't have something like that, you can use a chopping board or any kind of old porous tile that you have around the house, If you don't have any of those in the house, you can use something like a tea towel. and you can just work straight onto that and that will whip up any moisture and it won't get stuck t...”
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Course summary for: Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel
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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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