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Ready to elevate your pottery skills? Here’s a step-by-step guide to throwing a vase on the wheel, from centring the clay to adding intricate surface textures that make your glaze pop!
1. Start by centring 2.6kgs of clay on the wheel—this is the foundation for your vase. Take your time to ensure the … Read More “Mastering the Art of Wheel Throwing”
1. Throw to Height: Centre the clay on the wheel head and pull it up to the desired height for the moon vase shape, ensuring even thickness throughout the walls. Then, Use your hands to shape the vase into a rounded form, with a wider base tapering gradually towards the neck.
2. Maintain Wall Thickne… Read More “I’ll show you how to make a moon vase on the pottery wheel! ”
Materials needed:
-2-3kgs of clay
-Small wooden sculpting tool
-Wooden pottery comb or scorer
-Trimming Tools
-Glazes (2x or more)
1. **Throwing the Vase:** I start by throwing the vase on the pottery wheel, brining it to the desired form.
2. **Adding Coils:** Once the basic shape is formed, I add coils to… Read More “Creating a unique vase involves several thoughtful steps. Here’s a guide to my process”
What took the most amount of time was all the drying as well as getting the handles and leaf decorations ready. I wanted to put some hand built techniques into a wheel thrown vase to bring the two genres together, so to speak.
Due to us being in winter at the moment, it takes a long time for the clay… Read More “It ended up taking longer than I thought to create this vase, but it was worth it in the end!”
From a lump of clay to a completely glazed vase. Here are some tips to how you can throw your own!!!
1. Prepare Your Clay: Start by wedging your clay thoroughly to remove any air bubbles. This ensures a consistent texture that’s perfect for throwing.
2. Centre the Clay and Create an Opening: Place you… Read More “Let’s Make A Spontaneous Vibrant Flower Vase!”
1. Prepare Your Clay: Wedge your clay thoroughly to remove air bubbles
This helps bring your clay to a consistent texture ready for throwing
2. Center the Clay: Place your clay on the wheel and center it, ensuring it’s stable.
Keeping your elbows close to the body for stability
3. Create the opening: Op… Read More “From a lump of clay to a completely glazed vase. All within 30 seconds!!”
Check out this step-by-step process for creating a perfect dip bowl with a straight outer wall and a curved inside for chips and dip. 🍿✨
1. Prepare Your Clay: Wedge your clay thoroughly to remove air bubbles.
2. Centre the Clay: Place your clay on the wheel and centre it, ensuring it’s stable.
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In today’s video, we have a special little edit for you!
We wanted to create a video that showcase what we do in our pottery studio as well as an accumulation of recent work that we have completed. Think of th… Read More “Let Us Introduce Ourselves – A Special Edit For Todays Video”
For today’s post, we’re gonna be running through how I make this little retro inspired vase!
Some important notes is to make sure you have enough clay to make such a vase. I start off with roughly round 2 kg of clay, This gives you plenty of clay to work with and allow you to create a fairly thick wa… Read More “Do we like the retro shape?”
When I started throwing this pot, I made sure to keep a fair bit of thickness in the base before widening out the walls to create the belly of the basket
What this does is it allows the base to spread out when you are doing the widening process. The wider the base, the thinner it will become.&n… Read More “Little tip on how to make quick handles too!”