Carefully lift the slab releasing it from your work surface.
Making a slab box in ceramics.
How to make a ceramic slab box.
But there are more benefits than just that.
Jul 16 2018 gather your supplies.
Place the clay pancake on a canvas covered work surface.
Fit the strip around the base to determine the length and trim accordingly.
Be sure you don t roll your clay too thin or too thick.
Making a set of ceramic plates or casserole dish can be fun for the beginner but is also easily adapted for the more experienced student this project presents a direct and fresh slab forming approach resulting in plates that become great canvases for surface decoration materials are simple inexpensive and readily available.
You can roll a slab for the bottom of the box now.
How to make a slab box.
While waiting make a template of the shape you are aiming for be.
Continue flattening it by pressing it against the work surface with your palm or by pounding on it.
Cut out your desired shape for the base.
From another slab of clay cut a strip that will become the sides of the box.
I made a round box.
The final clay pancake should be of an even thickness of about 1 4 to 1 2 inch.
Roll your slab using the slab roller.
Roll out your slab to 1 4 3 8 thick.
Here s how we did it.
Roll the clay through the slab roller.
I start by rolling out a slab of clay 1 4 thick.
Set the slab roller to 1 2.
Make your ball of clay into a wedge shape.
Give each student handout.
Note that you will cut 3 pieces of each of the shapes.
The slab building technique involves rolling out clay to an even thickness usually 1 cm then cutting shapes folding bending.
Using a serrated metal rib score the edges to be joined.
Before using a slab roller flatten your clay so it fits into the roller.
Using slab pottery templates is a great way to consistently build a form over and over again.
Themed box template and instruct them to cut out each piece.
There are two ways to pit the box together.
Andrew creates maquettes of possible new pieces using tagboard thick paper and then tweaks them until he creates the.
Andrew avakian makes slab pottery templates to help generate new slab built forms.
Leave the slab to become firm approx 1 hr.
Slide share ceramics unit little house on the corner clay box.
Gather a large amount of clay that will be rolled into a flat slab.
Use a needle tool to score the edges of the slabs that are going to be joined.
Ceramics pottery huebnerpottery making puzzle top boxes from hard slabs.
