Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel
Introduction to Clay and Ceramics
A course by Lilly Maetzig , Ceramist
About the video: Introduction to Clay and Ceramics
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll explain to you the main types of clay that are used in ceramics and what their uses are and a little bit about air-drying clay. I will also show you how to prepare clay to begin working with it. ”
In this video lesson Lilly Maetzig addresses the topic: Introduction to Clay and Ceramics, 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 give you a brief introduction about clay and ceramics. Come with me. Now that we have our workspace set up, we're gonna learn a little bit about clay. Before I begin, Just open your bag of clay and just grab a little bit out. You wanna grab maybe like just a marble size amount. and roll it around your hands as I'm talking and squish it around, see how it feels, see how it acts. And we're gonna see how it changes over this lesson. You're gonna notice as I'm talking that the clay is gonna change a little bit and we'll have a look at that at the end of the lesson. ...”
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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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