Making Ceramic Plates With Slabs

When rolling slabs make sure you roll it out evenly in all directions otherwise you could compress one side more than.

Making ceramic plates with slabs.

Make slab and cut. Jayne s demonstration is for beginner potters to the advanced. More talc and more grog in the clay can help with many problems. After this place the clay on butcher or newspaper and smooth it out with a plastic card.

To make a ceramic plate you ll need to roll out clay or throw it on a potter s wheel create a shape let it dry and fire it in a kiln. Cut slits to help remove the surrounding clay. Dry all pieces slowly and evenly. Keep pieces away from the edge of the kiln.

In this video we learn how to make a ceramic slab plate. Place newspaper pattern on slab and cut out plate using a fettling knife a plastic picnic knife works well for elementary age artists. If rolling a slab roll it in multiple directions. Make sure the clay is thick enough.

First roll out the ceramic. Making plates isn t the easiest thing to do but you can handle it if you learn a little ceramics. First roll out the ceramic. Make sure drafts aren t causing uneven drying.

Save leftover clay for feet balls of clay for feet by hand or foot coil of clay for foot by wheel. Simply take the time to rotate the clay after each rolling. Avoiding the creation of a grain while making slabs is easy and quite straight forward. Next use a paper template to help cut your design or use a circular object.

Sort of like a sandwich i have followed this many times while making tiles coasters or murals and got good results. After this place the clay on butcher or newspaper and smooth it out with a plastic card. In this video we learn how to make a ceramic slab plate. Next use a paper template to help cut your design or use a circular object.

Learn how to create a plate with clay. Repeat this on the other side. Use the excess clay to build support pieces then curve the edges. To flip a large slab you will need two pieces of canvas larger than the slab will be.

Clay should be very uniform. Cut slits to help remove the surrounding clay. Wedge extremely well or warm the clay up in a pug mill. Make sure clay wetness is very uniform.

Thickness should be even. Roll slab to 3 8 to 1 2 thickness and large enough for at least one plate per slab. And later place one more piece of cotton cloth on top of the slab and place another plywood on top of it. Thinner plates are more likely to warp.

Once the slab is rolled we leave it open for 1 2 hours cut the edges etc.