The Hollow Vessel Online Course

A step-by-step summary of your course

This lesson introduces Medium Grog Stoneware - an ideal clay for large hand-built sculptures due to its strength, reduced shrinkage, and forgiving nature

Explore the tools and the materials you'll need for your course, ensuring you're fully equipped for success.

This lesson explores pinching as an intuitive hand-building technique, emphasizing consistent wall thickness, proper base compression, and climate-adapted drying to create strong, stable forms.

This lesson focuses on building strong, even coils by using consistent hand pressure, the tap technique for reshaping, and careful attention to thickness to ensure structural integrity and smooth blending.

This lesson teaches a crack-proof coil-attachment method for strong bonds and polished finishes, enabling you to create seamless, sculptural vessels with lasting strength.

This lesson covers building your vessel’s initial structure efficiently by attaching multiple coils, controlling wall shape through placement and smudging, and refining surfaces with ribs and paddle techniques for strong, precise forms.

This lesson guides you in building The Bridge—the foundational hollow space—by shaping a boat-like form, coiling and tapping walls, attaching a slab for stability, and refining roundness for a balanced vessel.

This lesson focuses on placing the Ring to guide the building of hollow space, carefully attaching it with a small tool, integrating it into the wall, and maintaining roundness by shaping the vessel’s interior.

This lesson teaches integrating the Ring by smudging with fingertips and smaller tools, building it into the wall, patching weak spots, smoothing with a rubber rib, and tapping to shape inward curves.

This lesson covers building walls to the top of the Ring using the rainbow technique, delicate smudging with fresh coils, moisturing as needed, and allowing an overnight rest to firm up for easier refining.

This lesson teaches shaping a fluid hollow space using steady loop motions with a wooden tool, tapping curves inward, smoothing with a rubber rib, and sculpting for natural, flowing forms.

This lesson focuses on completing your hollow vessel by creating bold inward curves, carefully joining coils across the ring, and refining shapes through smudging, tapping, scraping, and the loop techniques.

This lesson guides you in shaping the vessel’s neck by placing coils diagonally, tapping with the curved paddle, smoothing and refining with ribs for an elegant finish.

This lesson focuses on starting the second bulge by coiling gently on the rim to open the base, allowing it to firm up as support, smudging the inner part, and patching any weak spots for strength.

Open and close-in the second bulge of the piece

Build the neck and finish the rim of the vessel. Reassess the form to refine irregularities, and bring a smooth, fluid flow to the entire piece

Refine subtle transitions, sculpt, perfect the balance and ensure every curve flows

Sand your piece thoroughly to achieve a raw, eroded texture, enhancing its rugged and organic feel.