Creative Slab Box Ceramics

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Creative slab box ceramics.

Gather a large amount of clay that will be rolled into a flat slab. Sep 21 2020 explore mary bauer s board pottery slab ideas followed by 1600 people on pinterest. Using slab pottery templates to assemble forms. The works are slab built which gives the impression of solid and massive bodies when they are in fact surprisingly light and delicate.

The slab building technique involves rolling out clay to an even thickness usually 1 cm then cutting shapes folding bending. There are two ways to pit the box together. Give each student handout. South africa creative pottery.

Note that you will cut 3 pieces of each of the shapes. Creative shapes drawing exercises volume 1 2 50 oil painting techniques basic advanced lesson plans worksheets 5 50 ultimate color theory lesson plans and worksheets e workbook 30 00. Use a needle tool to score the edges of the slabs that are going to be joined. Be sure you don t roll your clay too thin or too thick.

I assemble the slabs to form the bottom and sides of the box using slip 3 and rib the joints together on the outside of the box using a serrated rib 4. Although pottery once felt like a dated medium it does go back 20 000 years after all today there are communities of young ceramists sprouting up in cities across the world. Roll out your slab to 1 4 3 8 thick. How to make a ceramic slab box.

Before using a slab roller flatten your clay so it fits into the roller. See more ideas about pottery ceramics ceramic pottery. Roll your slab using the slab roller. Oct 12 2012 explore rachelkurtz s board slab box ideas followed by 125 people on pinterest.

You can roll a slab for the bottom of the box now. Here s how we did it. See more ideas about slab boxes clay box ceramic boxes. Ceramics pottery huebnerpottery making puzzle top boxes from hard slabs.

In this contrast between appearance and reality the relationship of the interior space changes becomes intimate and creates an illusion of the object s instability.