Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel
Getting Slabs Ready
A course by Lilly Maetzig , Ceramist
About the video: Getting Slabs Ready
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll go over the skills learnt in the previous unit to make a few large slabs to use for our final project. ”
In this video lesson Lilly Maetzig addresses the topic: Getting Slabs Ready, 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 take you through getting slabs ready and letting them dry. This is going to be our main material for our vessels, so they're quite important. This process is just the same as in the previous unit. Where we're just gonna roll these slabs out and we're gonna let them dry from, maybe two hours up to eight hours or overnight if your studio is cold. So we're also gonna make them a little bit bigger than we were working on previous unit and we're gonna make two or three. So this much clay, we're not gonna use it all, It is quite heavy and I'm just gonna show you a sor...”
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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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