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Get a potter's wheel and learn how to do advanced pottery with expert tips and advice in this free video.
There are 22 videos in this series:
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn about the types of clay with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn how to wedge clay with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn about the necessary tools with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn how to understand the potter's wheel with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn how to center clay with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn how to open clay with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn how to shape pot bottoms with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn how to shape clay with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn about clay formation with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn how to finish a pot with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn about craftsmanship with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn how to make an hour glass shape with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn about the types of brushes with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn how to apply slip with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn about project manipulation with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn how to remove pottery from the wheel with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn how to remove pottery from the batt with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn how tp carve on pots with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn how to carve big objects with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn about drying levels with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn about kilns & pottery with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Shape and form pots and pottery and learn how to completed kilns with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
Scholars believe that the first pottery was made my hand and fired in bonfires which could reach temperatures of 900 degrees Celsius. Later, holes were dug in the ground to act as the first kilns. These early kilns utilized the earth around the hole as insulation to provide for better control of the firing process. Glazes and the potter's wheel were invented later, but essentially, the art of making pottery hasn't changed dramatically over the centuries, and the potter's best tools have been, and still are, his hands.
In this free video series, our expert David D. Gibson will talk about making pottery for beginners. He will talk about the different types of clay, understanding the potter's wheel, centering the clay, shaping & forming clay, brushes, and slip. He will also talk about craftsmanship, removing the pottery from the batt and the wheel, carving and drying the pottery, and he'll even talk a bit about kilns.
David D. Gibson David D. Gibson has a BFA in Ceramics from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and has done post-graduate study in Ceramics at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He is and has been a Studio Assistant and Faculty Member at Greenwich House Pottery and numerous their institutions. Dave has exhibited his work all over the USA in places like Franklin Square Gallery, Wayne Arts Center, Pewabic Pottery, Guilford Handcraft Center, Duncan McAshar Visual Arts Center, and Hickory Museum of Art.dkdk
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