Making Square Plate Ceramics

It s quite liberating to cut into a piece.

Making square plate ceramics.

I hope you ll give it a try and put your own spin and unique character. Save leftover clay for feet balls of clay for feet by hand or foot coil of clay for foot by wheel. Make slab and cut. Sean o connell had to figure out how to make ceramic plates in multiples when he had to make 500 plates in a relatively short amount of time for the watershed center for ceramic arts s annual fundraiser salad days in today s post sean shares his best tips on how to make ceramic plates in multiples.

Pottery blog emily murphy. Place newspaper pattern on slab and cut out plate using a fettling knife a plastic picnic knife works well for elementary age artists. And there you go that s how i make square plates on the wheel. Learn about throwing a plate from an artist in this free ceramics and pottery video series.

Part 1 of 12 how to make ceramic plates. A video showing how to make two versions of a square textured pottery plate using home made forms. Although technically much of it is done off of the wheel. Make a ceramic plate through the process of throwing clay.