Hand building pottery using slabs of clay is an exciting way to create shapes that could never be produced using a potter s wheel or that would be difficult to achieve if you are doing hand construction using coils of clay.
Easy slab built ceramics.
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To build small pottery press on slabs first squeeze clay lump in a form of ball of 2 of diameter.
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With your palms try to quash it as much as possible with your hand to give it a right shape.
Bevel the triangular cutouts so that when overlapped they lay flush.
Another hand building bowl template that makes working with your clay slab a bit simpler.
But there are more benefits than just that.
Andrew avakian makes slab pottery templates to help generate new slab built forms.
Andrew creates maquettes of possible new pieces using tagboard thick paper and then tweaks them until he creates the.
Sizes range from three to twelve inches.
After that put the clay ball on the surface and continue flattening with your palm and pounding it.
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