Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel
Cutting
A course by Lilly Maetzig , Ceramist
About the video: Cutting
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to take our templates from lesson one, and transfer them onto the clay. Then we’ll cut the shapes out to be used as the elements to build our vessel from. ”
In this video lesson Lilly Maetzig addresses the topic: Cutting, 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
“Cutting Now that our slabs have dried a little bit, we're gonna see how we're going to take our templates and transfer them onto our large clay pieces. I have here these pieces of clay which have dried for a couple of hours and so now they're leather hard and I also have the tools and materials that I need. We've got the knife tool, a rubber kidney or rib, a ruler, a guide, our templates that we made before and, of course, the clay. The clay is a good dryness now, this is called leather hard, and you can see that it's not warping beneath my hand as it was before when it was squishing with i...”
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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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