Simon Leach gets back to basic in this installment of his ceramics instruction video series. He teaches you first how to find places todig clay, then how to apply a red iron oxide slip to some flower pots he's working on. Multiple lessons in one video! This one is sure to teach you some interesting new pottery techinques.
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Build a small downdraft kiln with Simon Leach
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Use aluminum cans as armatures for shaping and baking polymer clay
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Make a simple clay and ash glaze
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Make a plaster bat for drying out your wet clay
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Decorate bisque pottery with red iron oxide
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Make a ceramic slab plate
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Make a Japanese Shino glaze with Simon Leach
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Collar ceramics
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Mix your own clay at home
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Glaze pottery inside and outside
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Make an incense burner out of clay
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Make ceramic flower pots
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Throw a wide bowl with Simon Leach
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Make a "hakeme" brush for slip decorating your pottery
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Put lips and rims on your pottery
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Make ceramic pottery start to finish
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Wedge two types of clay together
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Reclaim clay
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Glaze your pottery
How To:
Pack an electric kiln with pottery
How To:
Build a small downdraft kiln with Simon Leach
How To:
Use aluminum cans as armatures for shaping and baking polymer clay
How To:
Make a simple clay and ash glaze
How To:
Make a plaster bat for drying out your wet clay
How To:
Decorate bisque pottery with red iron oxide
How To:
Make a ceramic slab plate
How To:
Make a Japanese Shino glaze with Simon Leach
How To:
Collar ceramics
How To:
Glaze pottery inside and outside
How To:
Mix your own clay at home
How To:
Make an incense burner out of clay
How To:
Make ceramic flower pots
How To:
Make a "hakeme" brush for slip decorating your pottery
How To:
Throw a wide bowl with Simon Leach
How To:
Put lips and rims on your pottery
How To:
Make ceramic pottery start to finish
How To:
Pack an electric kiln with pottery
How To:
Wedge two types of clay together
How To:
Glaze your pottery
How To:
Make a stretched platter
1 Comment
Nice video, could learn a lot watching his series. Would love to learn more info on where to dig natural clay. We live in Tennessee and are laden with chert. So hard to grow anything because of it. I'm sure that has great possibilities for pottery.
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