How To Make A Ceramic Hand

If you re looking to try your hand at something a little harder than a basic pinch or coil pot then you might be ready to try a slab pot which is formed by joining flat slabs of clay together.

How to make a ceramic hand.

The molds are super super easy to make and well worth the time. Ceramic mold making is not as difficult as you might imagine. Tips for making plaster molds and slip casting clay is a great place to start. Learning to make bowls helped me learn to be patient even when i messed up six attempts in a row or didn t even come close to getting the clay right.

Below you can see a photo of myself centering some porcelain on the wheel. How to make a slump mold for ceramic hand building. The slump mold is a great way to make bowls without using a pottery wheel or using the pinch pot method. But watching melisa cadell s video figure sculpting in clay made me want to give it a try her tutorial on how to sculpt a hand out of clay really seemed like an easy and straightforward way to get started.

If you re interested in exploring the world of making plaster molds for slip casting or handbuilding ceramic mold making techniques. I learned to make ceramic bowls on a potter s wheel in school. Figure sculpting is not an area of ceramics that i have explored much probably because it seems like such an overwhelming endeavor. Slab pots tend to be a bit tougher to produce technically speaking than those created using other techniques.

It will help you make well formed pieces where the body wall has an even thickness. I typically throw off the hump which is a method of using a large amount of clay 15 lbs to make multiple pieces from the one amount of clay. It also tauget me to be confident.