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Pottery on the Wheel for Beginners – Throwing Clay, Beginning Ceramics

Have you been dying to learn how to do pottery? Now is your chance. This course will teach you how to throw a pot on the wheel from pulling your clay out of ...
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7.7

Popularity

8.9

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Platform: Skillshare
Video: 1h 4m
Language: English
Next start: On Demand

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7.2 / 10
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Video Score: 7.7 / 10
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The average video length is 1 hours 12 minutes of 562 Creativity courses on Skillshare.
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About the course

Have you been dying to learn how to do pottery? Now is your chance. This course will teach you how to throw a pot on the wheel from pulling your clay out of the bag to removing your pot from the wheel.

This pottery wheel course is for first time beginners new to throwing on the pottery wheel or for intermediate students who want to brush up their skills or troubleshoot their skills for quicker success.

Start watching and throw your first pot today!

What can you learn from this course?

Learn How to Make Your First Pot on the Pottery Wheel in 30 Minutes

This course includes the following:

1. How to arrange your pottery wheel workspace, your clay, your water and your tools. How to set up a temporary kitchen tabletop studio if you have limited space. How to set up a room as a permanent studio if you have lots of space.

2. How to throw a pot on the pottery wheel. This is step by step lesson that takes you from pulling a piece of clay out of the bag to centering all the way through to cutting your pot off the wheel.

3. Specific tips and troubleshooting techniques to help you rapidly improve your pottery making on the wheel. These lessons will not only help you to quickly learn important skills, they will help you to avoid many of the common pitfalls that beginners and intermediate students face when learning to throw pottery.

4. Video demonstrations of the entire throwing process that you can watch over and over again to improve your technique. This will help you to throw pots much more quickly and easily than learning by trial and error.

This course assumes you already have access to a pottery wheel and know how to make it spin. It also assumes you can outfit your workspace with a water bucket and a basic set of tools including a sponge, a clay cutting wire, a clay needle and a wooden clay knife. If you don’t have these tools you can buy a kit that includes all of these tools for around $12 online or at most craft stores.

If you’re ready to learn how to throw a pot on the pottery wheel, this lesson will show you how and give you tips and strategies so you can learn faster and with less effort.

Start watching and throw your first pot today!

Your goal after taking this course will be to throw a bowl on the pottery wheel. Once you have thrown your bowl, be sure to snap a picture of it and upload it to the class project gallery so others can share in your progress!

What you need to start the course?

There is no prerequisite, anyone can begin this course.. This course is also great for beginners without any Creativity knowledge.

Who is this course is made for?

This course is suitable for beginners.

Are there coupons or discounts for Pottery on the Wheel for Beginners - Throwing Clay, Beginning Ceramics ? What is the current price?

You can enrol in this course with a Skillshare subscription that costs $8/month, but you start with a FREE 7-day trial. You can also enrol in thousands of courses on a variety of topics with your subscription, including several Creativity courses.
The average price is $5.7 of 562 Creativity courses. So this course is -100% more expensive than the average Creativity course on Skillshare.

Will I be refunded if I'm not satisfied with the Pottery on the Wheel for Beginners - Throwing Clay, Beginning Ceramics course?

There is no money-back guarantee with Skillshare, but you can start with a free one-week trial to learn without risk. With the subscription, you can download classes to your tablet or phone using the Skillshare app.

Are there any financial aid for this course?

At the moment we couldn't find any available scholarship forPottery on the Wheel for Beginners - Throwing Clay, Beginning Ceramics, but you can access more than 30 thousand classes for $8/month on Skillshare, including this one!

Who will teach this course? Can I trust Steve McDonald?

Steve McDonald has created 39 courses that got 22,064 reviews which are generally positive. Steve McDonald has taught 425,061 students and received a 4.5 average review out of 22,064 reviews. Depending on the information available, we think that Steve McDonald is an instructor that you can trust.
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Material

Platform: Skillshare
Video: 1h 4m
Language: English
Next start: On Demand

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