LoL, my grandmother, who was a potter, had a wedging board in the 1970's/80's in her studio that she used all the time. She would teach me pottery each summer when I was a kid. She passed away never knowing about RU-vid. Yet, there was her canvas covered board.
Thank you for an incredibly useful video. As someone with far too many hobbies but who also tends to get far too carried away with gear, equipment, and the "what do I need to do this in the way I want?" question, advice like this is truly invaluable - a much needed corrective to all the exposure to people doing this professionally and/or who have done it for decades and have tons of expensive equipment.
I used to have a wedging/hand building board when I was a teenager (30yrs ago) and made the same way. So great for pottery projects at home, an absolute must if you don't have a permanent spot to do your work.
I always appreciate the approach of getting the most out of the most minimal resources (or min-maxing to use a gamer term). So much of what we can pursue can lead to frivolous excess less about the person or what they do or create and more about excess itself. It is good to actually have what we need and to be creating at our highest level, but all big things have humble beginnings. No matter how complicated our ideas and designs the small steps can lead to building great temples. Be humble and work with less even if you have everything.
Love your videos! A while back you mentioned you would show us your water system for your studio that doesn't have an active water hook up (along with the filtration and disposal). Would love to see that one sometime!
Thank you Mia, for sharing your wonderful tips! I have learned so much from you over the past year! I love working in dark stoneware clay bodies but I'm having a hard time finding the right glazes to use. I make reliefs from my plants from the yard and make casserole dishes and dinnerware and mugs from them. I'm looking for glazes that will reveal the raised reliefs and give my pieces a beautiful "yummy" look to them....like melted icing on a doughnut;)) so, that the dark clay body can be seen too. I use Kentucky Mudworks, Brown Bear. Thank you Mia!
Hey! Thanks for a lovely video :) So helpful!! I just moved to a new not so small apartment in Berlin, we have two rooms (55m2), and one of the rooms is the kitchen/dinning area (quite small but I can fit a little table to work on my clay projects). I was thinking how to dispose the 'dirty' water after cleaning or washing my hands after wedging for example, and what about the safety regarding the surfaces we use to make food, we also planning to have a tiny relaxing area with cushions, what about that and the dust? Maybe I'm thinking too much 😅 but I just want to be in the safe side. Thanks a lot I really appreciate your help! Hugs!
Sounds great! As long as your handbuilding and not too chaotic, you should be able to contain the dust to the table/directly underneath the table, so I would worry about that. If you’re going to be eating off the table and also using the table for glazing, make sure you’re cleaning very well after glazing. For water disposal, scroll back a little in my videos, I have a video that’s called “what to do with dirty clay water” or something like that ☺️
I think you re cool. I live in Madrid and also want to move out of the city at some point. But trying to get my health sorted to then get finances sorted to then do this things I want hahaha
Hallo,I was a painter/painting, but would love to get into pottery. But I will start from scratch and just want to know where to begin and what i need to start/appreciate your time J💌
Mam this is the 15th video I am seeing of ours I am pretty impressed my request is open an online store to sell your products or open an outlet in India thanks god bless love from India
Thank you for these wonderful tips, I currently live in a 2 bedroom apartment with my husband and would love to take pottery back after my university classes. I have a question in that regard, I have the other room available as an office and studio but it's also the room with the built in closet, so I wonder how I should go about the clay dust in that situation, would it be enough just by having the doors closed? Or should I take any extra precautions? Thank you for your time.
thanks for these tips! these questions are the ones I had in mind since starting pottery class and getting so into it I want to start at home. One question though, you don't mention using a turntable, would that be too dangerous in terms of dust inside? I fell quite in love with the turntable but I can't afford a studio or continuing classes forever ^^
