Creative Slab Box Ceramics

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.

Creative slab box ceramics. South africa creative pottery. Slide share ceramics unit little house on the corner clay box. The slab building technique involves rolling out clay to an even thickness usually 1 cm then cutting shapes folding bending. 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. See more ideas about pottery ceramics ceramic pottery. Sep 21 2020 explore mary bauer s board pottery slab ideas followed by 1600 people on pinterest. Here s how we did it.

Gather a large amount of clay that will be rolled into a flat slab. Be sure you don t roll your clay too thin or too thick. 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.

You can roll a slab for the bottom of the box now. Oct 12 2012 explore rachelkurtz s board slab box ideas followed by 125 people on pinterest. Next i add coils to the joints on the inside of the box and smooth the coils using my finger and water. Use a needle tool to score the edges of the slabs that are going to be joined.

Here are some great videos or blogs on slab constructed boxes. Themed box template and instruct them to cut out each piece. 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. Roll your slab using the slab roller.

Before using a slab roller flatten your clay so it fits into the roller. See more ideas about slab boxes clay box ceramic boxes. Ceramics pottery huebnerpottery making puzzle top boxes from hard slabs. Note that you will cut 3 pieces of each of the shapes.

There are two ways to pit the box together.