Last Evening Handbuilding In “Intro To Clay”
Students and teachers had fun working on slab-built boxes and putting some final touches on previous coil and hand-sculpting projects, wrapping up the first half of this spring's "Intro to Clay" class. This concludes are whistle-stop tour of some basic handbuilding techniques. Starting next week, it’s on to the pottery wheel!
Yesterday evening we all (teachers included!) had a great time putting some finishing touches on all of the handbuilding projects we’ve been working on since our “Intro to Clay” class started two weeks ago. Here are some highlights from last night’s class! Rest up, kids, because next week we move on and take a spin on the pottery wheel. Can’t wait!
Just a few highlights from our class, where we worked on wrapping up some handbuilding projects, including plates made using hand-rolled slabs, textured boxes cut from slabs we learned to make on the slab rolling machine, some coil-built bowls and hand-sculpted animals. Thank you to @octobergracemedia for the amazing photos!
Stay tuned next week for pics from our first wheel-throwing class on Monday! And if you missed the earlier post about this “Intro to Clay” class, you can check it out here.
Slab Roller Assembly Day!
Our big, beautiful 24-inch-wide freestanding slab roller is fully assembled and eager to get cranking!
Oh, what fun it was to unbox and assemble our brand new North Star slab roller! We’re going to have two (the other is a smaller table-top-mounted one) but this one is freestanding, with a wheel to make you feel like a ship’s captain on the high seas and 24” of slab-rolling width!
Our 24” slab roller is ready to go into service to make our handbuilding imaginings a reality!
Just imagine all the marvelous things we can build with slabs that big. I know my giant rosemary plant needs to be transplanted into a new planter this spring. Can’t wait to try it out!
The gears are so lovely and they spin so smoothly!
It seems almost a shame to cover them up with the gear guard, but safety first! I do wish they had transparent gear guards though, so we could watch them at work
As soon as we get a table for our second slab roller, that one will go up, too! At the moment, we’re hard at work picking out work tables of various sorts and shelving for all of the amazing projects that are going to be made here at the Staunton Clayground.
Watch this space!