When you're using a mold for anything like a bowl (larger on the outside and smaller on the inside) don't leave the clay on the mold to dry if you're placing it over the outside of the mold like here in the video. Clay shrinks as it dries and if you leave the clay on the mold when it's on the outside it will crack as it shrinks bc it can only contract as much as the mold allows, anything after a certain point and it will break. Now if you're putting the clay on the inside of the bowl you can leave it for as long as you want bc the clay can shrink with nothing to prevent it from doing so, since the clay is sitting inside the bowl. Also the plaster absorbs the moisture from the clay, so when you remove the piece from a plaster mold it dries quicker bc it's wicking moisture as it's on the plaster. If you use anything like steel or plastic or glazed ceramic wear, the moisture remains in the clay and it takes longer to dry, it might also be harder to remove the clay from the outside like in this video if you're using plastic etc as a mold and not something that absorbs water like the plaster.
I love that bowl you made and it was so simple and nice. Except I’m gonna have to do my own rolling since I don’t have that thing you have. :( thank you
I did something similar in middle school in my art class, we where helping with a charity thing that the teacher got confirmation to take us it at the local collage near by. We worked in stations and it was really fun, you brought back great memories! :)
What I do is take a big chunk of clay, wedge it, and then shape it to what I want, cut through the top with a wire for a smooth top, then carve out the inside (attach foot at the end of the process)
In school my last yr 11th grade i did “pottery” but it’s rlly ceramics it’s clay without the wheel this is what we did but this yr I’m gonna try and get into pottery2 the pottery I’ve been wanting to do since I was in elementary school😮💨
I actually learned this really cool trick when I did Ceramics so we had this canvas wrapping on our table and so it would have Clay Destiny you know to keep it from sticking well one day we when we were scraping I took some of that clay dust and I just pretty much rubbed it on this mold because I was trying to make a slab plea and I had tried doing it before and I ended up breaking my plate because it kept sticking so when I rubbed that clay dust on my mold and put the clay on it it came off right easy and in the video you said I hope it doesn't stick I thought you might be interested in trying it maybe if you have a bunch of clay dust
I want it as perfect as hand crafted can be. So no deliberate decision should diminish the perfection. This work has inperfections because it is handmade. Not because one chooses to be sloppy.
For baking I think you can use your oven or a window seal/sunlight just make sure it's heated and obviously it might take a bit longer (Somebody correct me if I'm wrong but this is how I was taught in like 3rd grade in art class so I figured it would work)
This is not a criticism, but I have never heard of a fourth of an inch before. When he said it, I was like: what's that??!! Then I after a fourth of a second, my brain realized: it's just a quarter inch. It's like a fourth of a dollar. From a computational perspective that makes complete sense, but from a vernacular perspective it'd totally take me a moment to figure it out!! Great video though, also great technique. Thanks to this guy for making this.
“Guess what we’re gonna do first.” Me, who knows little about pottery and just finds the vids satisfying: wedge? “You guessed it, make a slab.” “I didn’t actually but I appreciate the faith that you have in me”
