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Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel

Workspace Clean up and Clay Scraps

A course by Lilly Maetzig , Ceramist

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14,323 students

Audio: English, Spanish

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About the video: Workspace Clean up and Clay Scraps

Overview

“In this lesson, I will show you how to wedge your clay scraps up, ready to be used to make loads more pots! ”

In this video lesson Lilly Maetzig addresses the topic: Workspace Clean up and Clay Scraps, 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

“Workspace Clean up and Workscraps An important element of working with clay is the workplace clean-up. Now I'm gonna show you how to deal with our water as well as the clay scraps. To start with, I'll talk about the water that you have used throughout your making and your glazing. This water, as you can see, is quite murky, so we're gonna leave this overnight and you'll see the clay settles to the bottom and the water is on top. I like to leave my water by the sink and then I can very slowly and carefully tip the water off the top. Then I can get the clay and either recycle it or you can ju...”

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Course summary for: Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (335)
14323 students
4 units
21 lessons (3h 41m)
11 downloads

Category
Craft
Areas
Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Ceramics

Lilly Maetzig

A course by Lilly Maetzig

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Ceramist

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.