Making Pottery on a Hump Mold with Clay Slab
Plaster Mold used in demo: PhotoPottery's Very Small Round Hump Mold
Handbuilding Bowl on Hump Mold
Plaster molds are helpful for making pottery, since they draw water out of the clay quickly. As you will see, as we finish off one bowl, we'll be simultaneously working on the next!
We are using the drape mold shown below, PhotoPottery's Very Small Hump Mold:
We'll be making a small bowl similar to that shown below, which is in Earthenware. For our demo, we are using white stoneware:
Let's roll some clay!