Ceramic Techniques: Creating Textured Finishes
States of Clay
A course by LUIS CARDENAS , Industrial Designer Specialized in Ceramics
Joined August 2015
About the video: States of Clay
Overview
“Next, we will observe the most basic states through which clay passes during its transformation process.”
In this video lesson LUIS CARDENAS addresses the topic: States of Clay, which is part of the Domestika online course: Ceramic Techniques: Creating Textured Finishes. Learn how to create amazing ceramic finishes and textures by experimenting and combining materials with clay.
Partial transcription of the video
“states of clay In this lesson we will look at the states of clay. What we are looking for is to try to deconstruct the process from powder to piece. It is important to understand each of the states because we can intervene with them. The idea of this is to recognize in which of the states we can mix the external agents that we will see later. The clay goes through different states that would be dust, slip, mass and ceramic. Each one of them gives us important possibilities and capacities. What do we have to observe in order to intervene? any of the external agents that we involve in the cer...”
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Course summary for: Ceramic Techniques: Creating Textured Finishes
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Ceramics, Decoration, DIY, Fine Arts

LUIS CARDENAS
A course by LUIS CARDENAS
Luis Cárdenas is a professional designer and ceramicist. In 2012, he cofounded the ceramic workshop Popdots with Melissa Aldrete—a studio that aims to express the memorability of traditional materials in a contemporary context, seeking to strengthen the process as well as the concept.
Together, they develop collections of uniquely timeless pieces to increase the skill and understanding of ceramics, in the hope of encouraging experimentation and a continuous search for dialogue between the material, the being, and its environment.
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