Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel

Description

In this course you will learn :

• How to mold clay, use the tools, create your unique design, and build your object.
• The firing process, how to use glaze to enhance your work, and decorate your home with handmade ceramic objects
• About the main types of clay, what each one is best used for, and how to prepare your clay.

 

Syllabus:

1. Introduction

• Influences

• What will we do in this course?

 

2. Introduction to clay and ceramics

• The preparation

• Introduction to clay and ceramics

• Pot using the pinch technique

• Flowerpots using the rope technique 1

• Flowerpots using the rope technique 2

• A pot using the plate technique 1

• A pot using the plate technique 2

 

3. Final creation: a vase

• Design

• Preparing the plates

• cut

• Assembling canister 1

• Assembling canister 2

• Add ornaments 1

• Add ornaments 2

 

4. The final touches

• Finishing and transport

• Cooking

• Enamel

• Cleaning the workspace and clay debris

 

Final project

• Creating your first ceramic vase

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