Ceramics Basics Techniques And Tools

Basic pottery hand building techniques.

Ceramics basics techniques and tools.

Beth peterson is a potter artist and writer with more than 30 years of experience crafting clay and ceramics. Are perhaps the most ubiquitous of all art forms to have emerged from human history. The oldest known ceramic figurine venus of dolní věstonice traces back to the czech republic in 29 000 25 000 b c during the upper paleolithic period and a 2012 study published in the journal science confirmed that the earliest known ceramic pots found in xianrendong cave in china s jiangxi. A mound of soft fresh clay is turned or thrown on the wheel to form the basic shape of the pot.

Here are the basic techniques used by working potters and ceramic artists. Many basic pottery tools are used in both disciplines. We ll go into more of the pottery tools that you need later but this is a good beginners step and honestly you don t need a whole lot to begin working with pottery and if you re worried about completely messing it all up take the time to learn what materials you re working with and from there work to master your pottery and the craft itself. Building pieces out of clay by hand and throwing pieces on a potter s wheel.

Art203 ceramics i beginning ceramics 5 credit. Successful completion of art 1 course available to. Many of these techniques are ones that i use particularly sgraffito raku and underglaze painting. Working with clay can take two main directions.

Freshmen sophomores juniors seniors this is a beginning ceramics pottery class for individual students who are interested in acquiring knowledge and skills in clay.