Pottery Tutorial: Handbuilding Basics

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Date: 2019-03-06 Author: Sierra Machado Categories: art education, painting, middle school art, art, artist, painting, high school art, ceramics, clay, pottery Tags: art education, art lesson plan, art teacher, art tutorial, artist, ceramics, clay, featured, hand building, pinch pot, potter, pottery

This video tutorial will teach you how to make a pinch pot, coil building and how to score and slip your clay. Perfect for artists learning a new medium or in the classroom. Click the link to learn everything you need to know about the basics of handbuilding!

Don’t let not having a kiln stop you! I went from running my school’s ceramics program to moving to a school without a kiln. I am using Amaco Mexican Pottery in this tutorial, and it is legit! It has the same feeling and drying as the low fire Amaco clay I used to use.