Ceramics with Floral Imprints: Make Functional Tableware
Finding Your Flowers and Plants
A course by Hessa Al Ajmani , Visual Artist and Ceramicist
Learn how to create handmade ceramic pieces and embellish them by adding natural botanical imprints
About the video: Finding Your Flowers and Plants
Overview
“It's now time to talk about what types of leaves and wildflowers are best for imprinting on clay, and how to collect them from the wild in a way that is sustainable and respectful to nature. I will then discuss how to clean the cuttings and prepare the arrangement or design that you would like to see on your ceramic mug.”
In this video lesson Hessa Al Ajmani addresses the topic: Finding Your Flowers and Plants, which is part of the Domestika online course: Ceramics with Floral Imprints: Make Functional Tableware. Learn how to create handmade ceramic pieces and embellish them by adding natural botanical imprints.
Partial transcription of the video
“Finding Your Flowers and Plants In this lesson, we're going to talk about the flowers we'll use to imprint on clay. The flowers and wild plants that I normally use are handpicked from the desert or from empty patches of land or on the sides of the roads. I also like to use plants from my mother's garden, which she grows herself. Today, I have some plants that I've handpicked from the park as well as some store-bought flowers that you can also use if you don't have access to wild plants. When picking plants from nature, you want to be careful not to pick toxic plants and you want to look out...”
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Course summary for: Ceramics with Floral Imprints: Make Functional Tableware
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Areas
Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Ceramics, Design, DIY, Fine Arts
A course by Hessa Al Ajmani
Hessa Al Ajmani is a visual artist and ceramicist based in Ajman. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in visual arts and a minor in applied psychology from Zayed University. Her practice as an artist is heavily influenced by curiosity of human psychology and observation of the natural world. She has collaborated with brands like Audemars Piguet, Valentino, and Mille, and has been featured in Vogue Arabia and Marie Claire Arabia
In 2019, Hessa founded Clay Corner Studio, the first public arts studio in Ajman dedicated to ceramics and painting, where she currently teaches regular ceramics classes. Her work has been exhibited in a number of exhibitions, including Emirates Fine Arts Society’s Annual Exhibition. Hessa was twice a runner-up for ADMAF’s Creativity Award (2015-2016), and the first place winner of CDA’s Human Rights Short Film Competition (2014).
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