Creative Slab Box Ceramics

Be sure you don t roll your clay too thin or too thick.

Creative slab box ceramics.

Next i add coils to the joints on the inside of the box and smooth the coils using my finger and water. 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. See more ideas about pottery ceramics ceramic pottery. 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.

Here are some great videos or blogs on slab constructed boxes. South africa creative pottery. You can roll a slab for the bottom of the box now. Themed box template and instruct them to cut out each piece.

Oct 12 2012 explore rachelkurtz s board slab box ideas followed by 125 people on pinterest. Before using a slab roller flatten your clay so it fits into the roller. The slab building technique involves rolling out clay to an even thickness usually 1 cm then cutting shapes folding bending. 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.

Use a needle tool to score the edges of the slabs that are going to be joined. Roll out your slab to 1 4 3 8 thick. Slide share ceramics unit little house on the corner clay box. See more ideas about slab boxes clay box ceramic boxes.

Give each student handout. Gather a large amount of clay that will be rolled into a flat slab. Here s how we did it. Sep 21 2020 explore mary bauer s board pottery slab ideas followed by 1600 people on pinterest.

Note that you will cut 3 pieces of each of the shapes. There are two ways to pit the box together. 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. Ceramics pottery huebnerpottery making puzzle top boxes from hard slabs.

The works are slab built which gives the impression of solid and massive bodies when they are in fact surprisingly light and delicate.