Ceramics Handbuilding Ideas

Here at the ceramic shop we carry a wide variety of handbuilding tools for outfitting your studio or classroom.

Ceramics handbuilding ideas.

Pinchpot coiling and slab techniques. Before potters had the wheel they were creating spectacular pots and clay forms using only clay their. There are many different unique and beautiful decorating ideas and techniques for using brushwork on ceramics. Hand building pottery ideas hand building pottery is a technique that s been around for thousands of years but what s actually quite cool about this one is that you can create some amazing items regardless of how old it is.

Before potters had the wheel they were creating beautiful pots and clay forms using clay their hands and fingers and basic hand tools. Handbuilding 101 with the clay lady. Full of great pottery techniques as well as ideas you can apply to any pottery project these step by step wheel throwing instructions will help you improve your pottery throwing skills from concept through completion. A good pottery wheel is expensive and can require a lot of space in your house that you might not be ready to devote to a hobby.

Below are the three most common forms of creating hand built pots. By learning a few you can easily liven up your pottery and take them from a basic piece to something more customized and meaningful. Some of the pictures have a link below the picture linked to a detailed hand building lesson. The following pottery hand building project ideas pictures are taken in our studio to create lesson plans for our classes.

Movies like ghost have certainly cemented the image of throwing clay on a wheel in our collective consciousness but you don t actually need a wheel for pottery. Handbuilding is working with clay by hand using only simple tools not the pottery wheel. We are glad to be able and share with teachers and artists. From clay cutters available in a variety of fun shapes to modeling tools hole cutters and paddles we have every little thing you might need to complete your project perfectly.