How To Make A Ceramic Hand

How to make a slump mold for ceramic hand building.

How to make a ceramic hand.

Below you can see a photo of myself centering some porcelain on the wheel. In this video learn how artisans create hand painted decorative tiles. It will help you make well formed pieces where the body wall has an even thickness. Figure sculpting is not an area of ceramics that i have explored much probably because it seems like such an overwhelming endeavor.

It also tauget me to be confident. Tips for making plaster molds and slip casting clay is a great place to start. But watching melisa cadell s video figure sculpting in clay made me want to give it a try her tutorial on how to sculpt a hand out of clay really seemed like an easy and straightforward way to get started. The slump mold is a great way to make bowls without using a pottery wheel or using the pinch pot method.

The molds are super super easy to make and well worth the time. Slab pots tend to be a bit tougher to produce technically speaking than those created using other techniques. If you re looking to try your hand at something a little harder than a basic pinch or coil pot then you might be ready to try a slab pot which is formed by joining flat slabs of clay together. I learned to make ceramic bowls on a potter s wheel in school.

If you re interested in exploring the world of making plaster molds for slip casting or handbuilding ceramic mold making techniques. Pull off a small piece of clay to work with and roll it into a ball then pinch pull and roll the clay to warm it up in your hands. Ceramic mold making is not as difficult as you might imagine.