This course teaches how to create a two-part pottery vase using techniques such as wedging clay, throwing the body and upper walls of the vase, scoring and slipping parts together, trimming, glazing, and firing in both electric and gas kilns. The teaching method involves a step-by-step demonstration with timestamps for each stage of the process. This course is intended for individuals interested in pottery making, ceramics, and kiln firing techniques.
How I Create a Two-Part Pottery Vase - ASMR Edition
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Wedging clay
- Throwing the body of the vase
- Throwing the upper walls of the vase
- Scoring and slipping the parts together
- Incising out the excess to form the rim
- Melding the two parts together
- Drying the vases out slowly to leather hard
- Trimming the vases
- Loading the electric kiln for a bisque firing, 1000ºc
- Unpacking the now bisque fired pots
- Waxing the bases of the vases
- Glazing the vases
- Cleaning over the glazed surfaces
- Cleaning the bases of the vases
- Painting bat wash onto a silicon carbide kiln shelf
- Packing the gas kiln for a reduction firing, 1290º
- Ciro, the mascot
- Firing the gas kiln
- Unpacking the gas kiln a few days later
- Unloading the 'fallen' pot
- A close up of the crumpled vessel
- Smashing the failed pot
- Sanding the base of the pot
- The finished vase
- Tidying up
Taught by
Florian Gadsby
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