Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel
Designing
A course by Lilly Maetzig , Ceramist
About the video: Designing
Overview
“In the first lesson of this unit, we will draw some shapes to decide what to make for our larger object. Once we’re happy with our drawings, I’ll show you how to translate it into something larger to cut out and make into a template.”
In this video lesson Lilly Maetzig addresses the topic: Designing, 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
“Designing Now that we have a general understanding of clay and how to make some different types of pots, we're gonna take that knowledge and take that into our final project. We're gonna start by drawing designs for our vessels. We're going to be making some deconstructed vessels where we have two flat sides and some walls. I'm gonna show you how I design for those, but first of all, I'm going to show you what I mean. This is a very small kind of vessel that I've made in this style. We have these two flat surfaces and then these walls here, so it's kind of a celebration of the form of this ...”
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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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