Rookie Mistakes...

Prepare to see two rather spectacular mishaps... This week, I'm scaling up the red stoneware pots I've been making. I'll be throwing and trimming a 2.5 kg vase made from a 50/50 mix of PS 690, (the coarse red stoneware), and ES80, (the smoother high-iron clay), together with a sprinkling of bronze...

Intermediate - 30 min - Arts & Crafts - Florian Gadsby

The full course: Learn Pottery & Ceramics free

What you'll need

• Pottery tool kit: Ribs, loops, needle and sponge.
• Pottery wheel: For when you outgrow the studio.
• Air-dry clay: Practise hand-building at home.
• Apron: Clay gets everywhere.

Books

1. The Craft and Art of Clay by Susan Peterson - View on Amazon
2. The Essential Guide to Mold Making & Slip Casting (A Lark Ceramics Book) by Andrew Martin - View on Amazon
3. Ceramics by Glenn C. Nelson - View on Amazon

Next lessons

• How a Handmade Pottery Cup is Made from Beginning to End — Narrated Version (24 min, Florian Gadsby, Intermediate)
• Mixing Shards of Obsidian, Tungsten, Malachite & Tourmaline into my Clay (24 min, Florian Gadsby, Intermediate)
• Blue Clay & Glaze Experiments—Making Pottery for the Financial Times & Nikkei (59 min, Florian Gadsby, Intermediate)
• How to Center Clay and Throw Pots on the Pottery Wheel (25 min, Florian Gadsby, Intermediate)
• How to Make a Handmade Pottery Teapot — ASMR Version (23 min, Florian Gadsby, Intermediate)
• How to Center Clay — A Beginner's Guide (17 min, Florian Gadsby, Beginner)
• How to Make a Ceramic Teapot, from Beginning to End. (40 min, Florian Gadsby, Intermediate)
• How to Make a Stoneware Pottery Bowl, from Beginning to End — Narrated Version (15 min, Florian Gadsby, Intermediate)