Creative Slab Box Ceramics

Using slab pottery templates to assemble forms.

Creative slab box ceramics.

Roll out your slab to 1 4 3 8 thick. Here s how we did it. Roll your slab using the slab roller. Give each student handout.

See more ideas about slab boxes clay box ceramic boxes. Sep 21 2020 explore mary bauer s board pottery slab ideas followed by 1600 people on pinterest. The slab building technique involves rolling out clay to an even thickness usually 1 cm then cutting shapes folding bending. 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.

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. See more ideas about pottery ceramics ceramic pottery. 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. Ceramics pottery huebnerpottery making puzzle top boxes from hard slabs. There are two ways to pit the box together. Themed box template and instruct them to cut out each piece.

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. Before using a slab roller flatten your clay so it fits into the roller. 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. South africa creative pottery.

Next i add coils to the joints on the inside of the box and smooth the coils using my finger and water. Here are some great videos or blogs on slab constructed boxes. The works are slab built which gives the impression of solid and massive bodies when they are in fact surprisingly light and delicate. Gather a large amount of clay that will be rolled into a flat slab.

How to make a ceramic slab box.