Creating Ceramics with Character
Rolling the Vase
A course by Sandra Apperloo , Ceramic Artist
About the video: Rolling the Vase
Overview
“In this lesson, we will roll the slabs to vase bodies. This can be a bit of a tricky process as your clay will still be wet and wobbly, but we will go through all the steps together. ”
In this video lesson Sandra Apperloo addresses the topic: Rolling the Vase, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Ceramics with Character. Sculpt and decorate a vase with personality using original techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Rolling the Vase The next thing that we'll be doing is rolling the vase. We now have our clay slabs ready. I'm going to use a piece of newspaper and this where I use the brush that I introduced earlier. The first thing I'll do is covering up my brush in a piece of newspaper. The reason why I'm using this newspaper is the same reason that I use this cloth to roll the clay slab, because we don't want the clay to stick to the paintbrush when we roll it, that'll be messy. First I'll roll the paintbrush in the newspaper. And I make sure it covers the entire paintbrush nicely. I get a bit of tape...”
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Course summary for: Creating Ceramics with Character
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Category
Craft -
Areas
Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Ceramics

Sandra Apperloo
A course by Sandra Apperloo
Sandra Apperloo is a ceramist from Utrecht, Netherlands, who has always had a passion for art. She started sharing her interest for art, craft, and illustration with the world through her blog ArtisticMoods in 2012, which led her to explore different materials on her own. It was love at first sight for Sandra when it came to pottery, and she’s been sculpting and shaping clay ever since.
Sandra is now a full-time ceramic artist, putting love, thought, and effort into every piece she creates. Her brand, The Pottery Parade, includes a wide variety of decorative objects in pastel hues, with each piece carefully adorned with fun little faces.
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