This video about Tibetan Blackware Pottery makes an interesting companion to yesterday's video on African pottery. There are many similarities, especially the low temperature firing in little more than a bonfire, but a noticeable gender switch and a change in scale and refinement.
Showing posts with label ceramics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ceramics. Show all posts
African pottery
A fascinating and long video showing pottery being formed and fired in various locations in Africa. The techniques they use include concave mold, convex mold, coiling, direct pull, and hammer and anvil.
Ceramic artists, Sally and Neil MacDonell
Sally and Neil MacDonell share a ceramics studio in Bath, UK, but work independently. In this slideshow presentation they discuss their studio, working techniques and inspiration.
The making of a ceramic wall mural
I was delighted to discover this series of videos made by an artist who works in my home town of Wells, Somerset, England. Philippa Threlfall of Black Dog of Wells has been making relief murals in ceramic since the 1960s. In 2009 she accepted a commission for a mural to go on the wall of a new supermarket, and decided to document its creation in film and photographs. There are a total of
28 short video clips, text and photos which explain the making of the mural.
Ceramic artist Enric Mestre
Read more about Enric Mestre.
The story of Pueblo Indian pottery
This short documentary from 1952 tells the story of the pottery made by the Pueblo peoples of Arizona and New Mexico.
Textured slab pottery
This video is part of the sharing art project of Northeastern Educational Television of Ohio. Intended for grades 5-10, this video starts with an introduction to pottery and ends with a class making their own work. The middle section follows George Sacco as he creates a giant decorative bowls using a slab pottery technique. He uses breakfast cereal to texture the slabs before fitting them over a large form. The unfinished seams between the slabs creates more textures, as does the rough edge of the slab after rolling. Each bowl is individually fired at low temperatures around 800 - 900 degrees in a simple outdoor brick enclosure with sawdust and straw.
Chip carving basic cut
Marty Leenhouts shows how to make simple three corner designs with a chip carving knife.
This is done in wood, but I wonder if potters or polymer clay artists ever use this technique?
This is done in wood, but I wonder if potters or polymer clay artists ever use this technique?
Slab and coil pottery
Patricia Bridges of Bridges Pottery has been making pots for many years. Creating art with an emphasis on functional forms has always been a driving force in her work. Her work is primarily done on the wheel but she also creates a significant collection of hand built pieces made by slab construction. Watch her at work as she constructs a large slab and coil vessel. Its amazing how the multiple layers of glazing over the patterned surface makes the piece come to life.
Clay sculpting tools
Joanna Mozdzen explains the tools she uses for sculpting and texturing clay.
In this second video she is demonstrates how to add texture and finish sculpture in water based clay.
In this second video she is demonstrates how to add texture and finish sculpture in water based clay.
The creative process of Dawn Youll
Dawn Youll is inspired by a painting and dissects the elements of signs, expressive marks and colors. She talks about stripping an object into two dimensional outlines then reconstructing a new three dimensional object from the drawings.
Making the Creative Process Visible - Full Films: Dawn Youll MA Ceramics UWIC 2008 from Dr. Natasha Mayo on Vimeo.
Clay inlay
Ceramic artist, Rene Murray, demonstrates an inlay technique which she uses to make jars, vases, platters, sculpture and clay paintings. She inlays one type of clay into another making images appear with one clay as the 'figure' and the other as the 'ground.'
Adam Buick - inspired by landscape
Ceramic artist Adam Buick's pottery studio is near St.Davids on the west coast of Wales. He is inspired by the Pembrokeshire landscape, and incorporates slate pebbles and clay from the beaches there into his work which is based on Moon Jars, a Korean form dating from the Choson Dynasty. The name Moon Jar comes from their round shape and the milky color of the glaze, reminiscent of the full moon.
Pennsylvania Redware Pottery
Pennsylvania Redware is one of the oldest pottery techniques in the U.S., introduced from Germany in the 1600's. Denise Wilz demonstrates the style of pottery using contempary materials and techniques. She has also written an article about Pennsylvania Redware. Kevin McConnell describes it as America's Folk Art Pottery
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.The creative process of making a microcosm of one's world
Helen Pickles, during her BA Ceramics in Cardiff, is inspired by museum display cases and creates a quite complex multimedia microcosm of her world during the school year.
Making the Creative Process Visible - Full Films: Helen Pickles BA Ceramics UWIC 2008 from Dr. Natasha Mayo on Vimeo.
Sioux Pottery
Here is a nice little video by some budding young documentary makers at Sioux Pottery. The video shows how moulded pots are made, decorated with paint and then patterned.
The creative process of Shauna Twardzik's ceramics
Shauna Twardzik talks about the creative process of building some ceramic forms during her MA studies at the University of Wales Institute at Cardiff, School of Art and Design.
Making the Creative Process Visible - Full Films: Shauna Twardzik Ceramics UWIC 2008 from Dr. Natasha Mayo on Vimeo.
Making the Creative Process Visible - Full Films: Shauna Twardzik Ceramics UWIC 2008 from Dr. Natasha Mayo on Vimeo.
Creating surface texture on pottery by chattering
Chattering, or chatterwork, is a technique that uses a flexible tool to add texture to an object.
Isaac Button, potter
A master at work, from a time when pottery was often considered disposable packaging and had to be made quickly. The location is Soil Hill Pottery, between Bradford and Halifax in England. The Kiln, Drying Shed and Chimney are a Grade II listed building, built circa 1900 on the site of an earlier pottery.
This is a shortened version of a movie made in the early 1960's. You can see the full thing in four parts here, and read more about Isaac and Soil Hill Pottery here.
This is a shortened version of a movie made in the early 1960's. You can see the full thing in four parts here, and read more about Isaac and Soil Hill Pottery here.
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