Creating Ceramics with the Slab Technique

Overview

“From wet to bone-dry, I will teach you how to identify what leather-hard clay is. You will learn four types of clay at different levels of dryness. ”

In this video lesson Jeremy Bellina addresses the topic: Understanding How Clay Behaves, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Ceramics with the Slab Technique. Craft unique and organic forms using a simple pottery method: the slab technique..

Partial transcription of the video

“Understanding How Clay Behaves In the last lesson, I guided you through the tools that we will need. Now, I want to discuss the clay. I rolled out four tiles of clay at different levels of dryness. This stage is very important. I have the feeling that when working with the slab technique, people tend to roll out the slab and then directly start building. When you roll out the slab, the clay tends to be at this stage, so quite fragile and quite saggy. It's a bit too wobbly, I tend to say, a bit too saggy to start working with. I like to let it rest a bit and once it's a bit firmer, I can sta...”

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Course summary for: Creating Ceramics with the Slab Technique

• Level: Beginner
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• 3669 students
• 5 units
• 21 lessons (3h 55m)
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• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Ceramics, Decoration, DIY