Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel
Slab Pots 1
A course by Lilly Maetzig , Ceramist
About the video: Slab Pots 1
Overview
“In this lesson, the last of this unit, we’ll take our understanding even further by learning construction skills by making a slab pot. I’ll also show you how to make and attach a handle in this lesson.”
In this video lesson Lilly Maetzig addresses the topic: Slab Pots 1, 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
“Slab pots are the main skill that we're going to use for our final project. We're going to be doing a construction method here, making a round form. But as you'll see in a moment, this is a really good way to make geometric things or you can use a mold with this method. We're not going to be using molds today, but you can see in the additional resources a video of me from Instagram where I use molds to make plates from slabs. So we're going to get started now. I have cut the clay out of my bag in kind of a square shape. You can do this too just by cutting a long sort of strip rather than so...”
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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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