Artobjectscrafts

So I've set my slab roller on both sides to just in between a quarter of an inch and three eights of an inch. I really like that thickness for working with. It comes with two pieces of canvas...

Now one way of taking your slab and making it into a form is called hump molding. You have a hump of something. It can be plaster, it can be wood, it can be something that you threw on the wheel and...

Another great way to decorate slab built pieces is called slip trailing. Slip is actually just a slurry of very thin clay. Now this particular bucket of slip is the dregs from my throwing wheel and I...

So I'm going to use this piece of slab here to show you a variety of different ways to make textures. Before you make a texture into your slab, you want to go ahead and take a drywall knife...

Now I just talked to you about letting this set up until it is leather hard. It is best to do it naturally for a few hours or so but I am impatient so I am going to use a torch. This is a good way to...

A really fantastic way to emboss images into your clay that I've discovered is to use wall decorating stamps. These are made of foam, and what they're really for is making decorations...

One of the great things about building with slabs is that being flat it's a really great surface to decorate with stamping, number of different ways. There's so many different ways you...

So for this little dish I am going to put four feet on it. So I've got my little lump of clay and I am just going to divide this into four pretty equal sized pieces. Now these feet can be...

So now we're going to take this slab that has a little bit of added texture and make a cylindrical vase. This right here, is a piece of cardboard that was a paper tube for photographic paper....

Now if you don't want to go with a design that's so locked in and specific, you can go with a simple freehand design. Another good tool to have for cutting luminaries is one of these...