Follow along with this easy hand building oval vase project. This project is perfect for the classroom and easy to do with elementary students to high school students.

This project is built with low fire clay and glazed with AMACO Teacher's Palette Light Glazes but can easily but built with a cone 5/6 clay body and glazed with cone 5/6 glazes.

In this project where we show you how to build a clay oval dish using ONE soft slab of clay that has lots of texture!

This project covers a variety of the 3-D Elements and Principles of Design including Texture, Contrast/Variety, and Proportion/Scale.

The final glazed piece on the YouTube thumbnail is glazed with TPL-44 Peridot and TPL-23 Aquamarine and fired to cone 05!

Using Matisse as our inspiration, we will cut sheets of underglaze newsprint to applique colorful designs on a slab of clay. Video demonstrations include application of underglaze to newsprint sheets, and the cutting and designing of applique composition. Tips include how to successfully transfer images to clay slabs & form a finished piece.