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Throwing porcelain dinner sets include the design considerations, throwing and trimming on the wheel, altering processes as well as glazing mixing and firing considerations. Students learn how to make different mug shapes, goblets, tumblers. Antoinette teaches how to make pie dishes, different bowls like cereal and salad bowls, plates, platters and lidded casseroles. She explains how to prevent cracks and hand out many tips and techniques.
Image:Learn how to create fine translucent wine goblets on a pottery wheel.
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How to throw a clay slab Begin by pounding the clay to about 2" thick on the table surface. Pound in all directions so that the clay particles stretches evenly. Lift the slab up and bring it down on the table surface so that the middle of the slab touches the surface first. Imagine this is a tablecloth that you want to drape over a table. If the edges touches first, you have to pick it up and drape again. This is not a forceful action. If the clay is soft enough and pliable, it will stretch with a light touch.
When the clay edge touches first, you thin the edge and not the whole slab. Do not use force. Move your body like swinging a golf club when you throw the slab. In doing so, turn somewhat sideways and let your body swing along. If you slam it down too hard, the clay will stick to the table. Every time you pick the clay up, do it from a different place. You want the clay particles to spray evenly in all directions. Remember to re compact the clay before you start cutting or forming the slab. If needed reinforce with a roller. It is possible to make many different objects from slabs. The balloon bowls are made from slabs. Many handmade dinnerware pieces starts out from slabs. See the content list from the Hand building dinnerware class.  The dinnerware pieces blow were made from slabsDiscover the art of throwing refined, functional porcelain dinnerware with master potter Antoinette Badenhorst in this comprehensive online workshop at TeachinArt Online School of Art. Through detailed demonstrations and expert instruction, Antoinette guides you step‑by‑step in throwing, shaping, trimming, and assembling dinnerware sets. Gain practical skills, professional techniques, and the confidence to craft beautiful, durable pieces that takes your wheel‑throwing to a polished, table‑ready level. Antoinette show step by step how to create porcelain cups, plates and other kitchen articles from porcelain clay. Whether you are making it by hand or on a pottery wheel, she offer 2 classes from which you can choose. See more about the ceramic online workshop wheel-thrown porcelain dinnerware.  |
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