How To Make A Ceramic Slab Vase

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How to make a ceramic slab vase.

Simple and easy way to do a ceramic vase with the help of a bottle that you have in your house. To effectively work with the clay slab construction for this project tall vase roll 1 4 slab several hours in advance place on a wooden board and cover with plastic to allow the clay to firm up a bit soft leather hard. Three vases are handbuilt with clay slabs then painted with colored slip etched with designs and prepared for kiln firing. Making clay vases or bottles on the pottery wheel is something every potter should learn and if you have ever struggled with the task today s post will definitely help.

Andrew creates maquettes of possible new pieces using tagboard thick paper and then tweaks them until he creates the. Laying it so it abuts one edge of your base mark and trim away the clay so that the new slab is the same width. In this clip from her video fundamentals of wheel throwing jennifer allen explains how to make a vase in clear and easy to understand directions. Andrew avakian makes slab pottery templates to help generate new slab built forms.

Imagine the purpose size shape and the color of the object you wish to make. Trim one edge into a straight line using your potter s needle. Form a slab just as you did in step one. But there are more benefits than just that.

Visit a gallery which sells pottery and ask how it was done. The hump molds shown in this tutorial are wheel thrown bisque. Using slab pottery templates is a great way to consistently build a form over and over again.