Creating Ceramics with the Slab Technique

Overview

“An essential skill in pottery is making clay slabs. In this lesson, I will demonstrate how to create multiple flat slabs to cut out and use as templates for the bowl walls and floor.”

In this video lesson Jeremy Bellina addresses the topic: Rolling the Clay into Slabs, 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

“Okay, so now it's action time. We are finally going to start producing something. So what we want to create in the upcoming lesson is a little shape like this. So consider this the training ground. We want to basically try to produce like a small bean-shaped ball just like that one. So the first lesson is going to be about laying wide enough Slap. in order to create both the bottom of a future ball and the walls. So in order to create a slab, we obviously need some fresh clay. So this clay is fresh out of the bag. I just cheese-wired Cut it it. into a little brick like this that is about 3 ...”

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Course summary for: Creating Ceramics with the Slab Technique

• Level: Beginner
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• 3916 students
• 5 units
• 21 lessons (3h 55m)
• 1 download

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

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