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Soft Slab Pottery: Easy Hand-Built Dinnerware
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Online - Self Paced
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About Soft Slab Pottery: Easy Hand-Built Dinnerware
Soft Slab Pottery Intro
Materials and Clay
Cutting the Plate Mold
Making Plates and Platters
Making the Glass
Making a Bowl
Bonus Plate Demo
Class Project
Final Wrap-up
What You Will Learn?
- You won't need a potter's wheel or fancy equipment for this class. I will teach you how to make a simple plate mold out of Styrofoam and cups and bowls out of very soft clay slabs. I will also show you a cool technique using block printing linoleum to impress designs and make plates..
- Materials & tools you will need.
- - access to a kiln to fire your pottery..
- - clay that fires to the temperature that your firing facility fires to..
- - work surface covered with canvas or old sheet..
- - rolling pin.
- - 1" thick Styrofoam..
- - things to make texture like lace, stamps, buttons and other found objects..
- - dull knife, serrated knife or small serrated saw, sponge, needle tool.