Easy Slab Built Ceramics

Using slab pottery templates is a great way to consistently build a form over and over again.

Easy slab built ceramics.

Eleven pages are contained in a single pdf file. Another hand building bowl template that makes working with your clay slab a bit simpler. What makes these creations unique is the hand artistry and the type of potter s clay you use. Andrew avakian makes slab pottery templates to help generate new slab built forms.

Hand building pottery using slabs of clay is an exciting way to create shapes that could never be produced using a potter s wheel or that would be difficult to achieve if you are doing hand construction using coils of clay. Andrew creates maquettes of possible new pieces using tagboard thick paper and then tweaks them until he creates the. After that put the clay ball on the surface and continue flattening with your palm and pounding it. But there are more benefits than just that.

Bevel the triangular cutouts so that when overlapped they lay flush. See more ideas about pottery ceramics ceramic pottery. You need to have the thickness of to. To build small pottery press on slabs first squeeze clay lump in a form of ball of 2 of diameter.

With your palms try to quash it as much as possible with your hand to give it a right shape.