Ceramic Arts: Specialization: Traditional Techniques

Overview

“Now, you will be introduced to the basic hand-building techniques. With these foundational techniques, you will be able to create various forms and objects with clay, including the floral mugs that will become the main focus later on in this course. Before diving into the production process of your ceramic mug, let’s take a moment to go over some important food safety and functional design elements that can help to improve the durability and functionality of the piece.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Technique Foundations and Making a Product Food Safe, which is part of the Domestika online course: Ceramic Arts: Specialization: Traditional Techniques. Create unique ceramic vessels at home, learn clay molding, design, firing, and glaze techniques for decorative pieces.

Partial transcription of the video

“Technique Foundations and Making a Product Food Safe In this lesson, we will talk about the clay itself, what it's made of, its tendencies, the different stages it goes through as it dries, its uses, as well as what makes it food safe while making functional ceramic ware. Clay is a natural material. You can sometimes have synthetic kinds of clay, which is not something that we use for pottery and ceramics normally, and it's normally found in nature by bodies of water, rivers, and lakes. It's made up of different elements of silica, kaolin, sometimes grog, sometimes iron oxides, so it depend...”

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Course summary for: Ceramic Arts: Specialization: Traditional Techniques

• Level: Beginner
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• 1498 students
• 7 units
• 101 lessons (17h 58m)
• 31 downloads

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

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