Follow along with a detailed pottery demonstration video showing the complete process of creating stepped sculptural vessels from a single block of clay, from initial wedging through to final firing at 1290ºC. Learn techniques for throwing, trimming tiered forms, and executing a nine-hour reduction firing, while gaining insights into handling technical challenges and potential failures in ceramics work. Watch the step-by-step process including clay preparation, throwing the initial form, precise trimming techniques, bisque firing, waxing, glazing, and the final gas kiln firing, concluding with professional photographs of the completed pieces.
Creating Stepped Ceramic Vessels - From Design to Firing Process
Overview
Syllabus
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- Introduction, weighing out and wedging clay
- Throwing the 'blank' of clay
- Trimming the stepped shape
- Trimming the back of the pot
- The four different shapes I've made...
- Packing the electric kiln for a bisque firing
- Destroying defects
- Waxing the sculpture's base
- Glazing the piece & then tidying it up
- Packing my Rohde KG-340 gas kiln & reduction firing it
- Unpacking the stepped vessel
- Photographs of the finished object
Taught by
Florian Gadsby
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