Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel
Slab Pots 2
A course by Lilly Maetzig , Ceramist
About the video: Slab Pots 2
Overview
“Once that the slab is all smooth and ready, we are going to use it to create the components of the vase.”
In this video lesson Lilly Maetzig addresses the topic: Slab Pots 2, 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
“Okay, so now that the slab has dried for about an hour, It's a little bit more hard, so it's not warping when I pick it up under my fingers. So I'm going to turn it over and then do the same thing with the ribs. I need to smooth this side because we've got the texture. This time I'm pushing a little bit harder than I was before because the clay is not as soft. So now that we've got a nice smooth, pretty hard slab, we're going to cut two parallel lines just to one side of the slab and the other side we're going to use as the base. So these parallel lines are going to make the wall of the pot...”
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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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