Jug - do it yourself. Crafts for the garden!
Crafts for the garden acquire special charm and meaning if they are made taking into account the place where they will be located.
There are crafts that can be used to decorate absolutely any corner, but there are some that will look better in a certain place. For example, on an alpine hill, on the bank of a decorative pond or stream, next to a fountain or garden waterfall, jugs are often placed.
Of course, buying a jug today is not a problem. But, firstly, it is not always possible to find on sale exactly the kind of jug that you want to see in the composition, and secondly, an expensive piece of art can be quite expensive.
But you can make a jug for an alpine slide, garden fountain or pond with your own hands. Not everyone knows pottery, so they will look for a simpler technology. For example, let's make a jug not from clay, but from cement.
You can, of course, “mold” a lump out of cement-sand mortar, smooth its surface to almost perfect evenness, form a neck, dry the product thoroughly, and then decorate it as you please.
But the jug is a rather large product, and the solution is a malleable mass. Even if you manage to sculpt what you want, it may become deformed when drying. Therefore, we are looking for an even simpler option. For example, you can find a rounded stone and plaster it with mortar. And then sculpt the neck and nose - the weight of these parts is small. When the product is dry, you can decorate it. But if you want. For example, if you decorate a jug with a mosaic, you can do this right away while the product is raw.
You can even make a boulder out of cement, but it’s lightweight. , very useful material.
Another option for creating such a craft for the garden is to use a real, but cheap glass or plastic jug as a base. Even an old broken electric kettle can be adapted - it has a jug-shaped shape.
But how to plaster glass or plastic so that the solution does not slip? It's very simple: take a strip of adhesive tape and wrap it around the jug. After this, the container can be covered with cement without any problems. By the way, instead of cement, you can use putty for facade work - the effect will be the same.
Mosaic- a very interesting and appreciative type of decor. You can use shards from old broken dishes and pebbles for it. In principle, if you want to make a masterpiece, then you can buy a little mosaic.
Coloring. If you suddenly want to make a jug in gold, silver or copper, no problem. You carefully prepare the surface: putty, sand, prime and paint with appropriate paint. To make your task easier, you can use spray paint.
Under the clay. If you want a “real clay” jug, apply a thin layer of clay to the almost hardened cement surface (practically rub it in), leave it until it dries, then correct the flaws with sandpaper. Wait until it dries completely, prime and varnish.
You can come up with many options for decorating crafts for the garden - a jug. Dare, be creative, and your alpine slide will be simply charming.
In all the photos there are real clay jugs, so that there is something to focus on.
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Making a clay vase with your own hands is a surprisingly enjoyable experience. By following simple instructions, you can get an excellent result on the first try, causing well-deserved pride.
The first part of the job is choosing the right material. That is, one of the varieties of pottery clay for modeling. Variations of this raw material in the store differ from each other in color, firing temperature, fraction size, and the presence of additives.
You can often see in the description such an item as “clamotte content”. Chamotte is clay that is fired and then finely ground. Added to pottery raw materials, it serves to increase its strength characteristics. That is, a vase made from fireclay clay will be more reliable and durable.
A good craftsman can be seen even before he begins to work; by his instruments. They are carefully and wisely selected, laid out so that they are convenient to use. To sculpt clay vases, the list of things needed is as follows:
By the way, there will also be a dry towel or rag.
Before you start making a clay vase, you can study existing examples. Greek amphorae and dinos, simple Russian jugs and jugs, elegant multi-colored Chinese examples - all of them can serve as a source of inspiration.
However, it is not necessary to think through the form in advance. Improvisation while working is also a very interesting and promising path. This way we get truly unique, inimitable products.
Let's get started: step-by-step instructions for making a vase on a potter's wheel.
There are several main stages along this path:
The working raw material must be thoroughly kneaded so that it is homogeneous, without air bubbles inside. If necessary, add water if the clay is too dry. Working with the material at this stage is reminiscent of kneading dough. The end result should be neat and dense.
Important! For tall shapes, including a vase, use denser clay. When preparing working raw materials, do not add a lot of water so that it does not turn out to be too liquid.
Place the resulting clay ball in the center on the potter's wheel and start the mechanism at maximum speed. Then wet the workpiece, your hands and start leveling the mass.
To do this, position your right hand so that the palm, perpendicular to the potter's wheel, touches the clay. Using your left fingers, first press the workpiece from above to flatten it. Then, applying pressure to the bottom of the clay piece, lift it up.
It is necessary to flatten and raise the working mass again until it is exactly in the center of the disk. A novice potter will need about 5 minutes to do this; a master, of course, will do it faster.
Usually, for the first time, until this stage, it is not completely clear how you can make a vase from this clay. Many people think that they won’t succeed - it’s hard to imagine how to create a finished product from the lump of blank lying in front of you.
But right now, at this moment in the work, the time for a miracle comes. You begin to form the outlines of the future vessel. And it turns out that it’s not so difficult!
Use your fingers to make an indentation, moving from the top of the clay mass inward to the bottom. Of course, there is no need to bring the hole to the surface of the potter's wheel. It is recommended to operate with the thumb of one hand and the index finger of the other, connecting them together.
After this, the speed of the potter's wheel is reduced, and the resulting recess in the workpiece is expanded, gently pressing on its walls from the inside. This stage of sculpting a clay vase is called loosening the bottom.
Important! In the process of further work, it will be necessary from time to time to remove the liquid that has accumulated on the bottom so that it does not become wet or deformed. A sponge is used for this.
Subsequent actions depend on what shape of the product you want to get as a result. Here we present several basic steps that answer the question of how to make a vase from clay:
To do this, place your right hand perpendicular to the disk so that its fingers touch the outer wall of the future vessel. And with your left fingers, lightly press on the inner surface of the recess at a slight angle, from bottom to top. Smoothly move to the edge of the workpiece.
Position your hands in the same way as for pulling the form up. However, this time do not push the movement to the edge by completing it early. This way you will get a vessel that first gradually expands, but then, towards the neck, narrows again.
When a vase is sculpted from clay with your fingers, unevenness remains on its surface and it looks rough. Some people like this texture, but if you want a smooth shape, use a stack. Slowly move it vertically from the bottom of the product to its top.
All of the listed techniques for sculpting a clay vase will become intuitively clear when you get down to business. It won’t be a problem for you to combine them, and even try something else right away - the clay itself seems to tell you what to do with it.
Important! To make your movements more precise while working, you need to have support for your hands. For example, you can put your elbows on your knees.
Having finished the sculpting process, stop the pottery wheel and use a fishing line or stiff thread to cut the resulting product from the disk. Previously, horsehair was used for this, but the modern world dictates its own conditions.
With clean, dry hands, remove the finished vase from the circle.
The final stage is carried out in a special oven. Heat the pottery gradually, increasing the temperature by about 100C per hour. The maximum value to which the process must be brought is usually indicated on the clay packaging. Approximately this figure is 950C.
After 8 hours of firing at the maximum temperature, its value must also be gradually reduced until it reaches 40C. After this, the product can be removed.
Although ceramic dishes look aesthetically pleasing even without treatment, they can be further decorated by painting or glazing. Do not forget that after this the product must be fired again.
An original and beautiful home decoration is ready! If you think that you need more experience and practice, then you definitely need to go for training, and the Kolokol pottery school conducts courses and master classes in pottery for ceramists of various levels of training.
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The first participant in our project was potter. Potters and potters appeared before our era. These craftsmen processed clay and turned it into dishes and other household items.
Clay products were then a necessary element of life for many peoples. Now it is no longer so much a craft as an entire art. After all, from clay you can create both ordinary flower pots and all kinds of interior items.
The process of creating pottery is quite complex and consists of several stages. At first clay needs to be prepared. It is crushed, flattened, adding a little water to soften it, collected into a round lump and kneaded again. As a result, there should be no hard lumps left in the clay.
Now you can continue working with the material. A piece of clay is placed on the potter's wheel and pressed tightly with your hands on all sides.
In this case, the position of the future product must be center. If the master feels that his hands are moving unevenly in a circle, shaking, it means that the clay is not in the center of the circle, and the product will not turn out.
After it starts molding. Gradually, the potter levels the clay mass and gives it the shape of a cylinder.
Then he can narrow it towards the top or in other places, and in some places, on the contrary, expand it - depending on what the master wants to get in the end.
If the cylinder turns out to be smooth, then further stretching it and forming it into a pot shape will be simple - You can create any shape from a cylinder.
It happens that the product simply collapses during operation. There may be various reasons for this. This often happens if the clay is too liquid. Then it needs to be dried and start all over again.
When the master has achieved the desired shape, he removes excess clay using strings or wires, the product is also leveled using a knife or wooden spatulas.
Several methods are used to decorate finished products. This is embossing (pressing parts of objects), engraving (applying designs with sharpened sticks), glazing (coating with glaze).
From clay you can create, for example, pots like these, covered with glaze and complemented with voluminous fantasy elements, as well as vases and crafts, for example, for decorating aquariums.
Clay can be purchased ready-made or in powder form in specialty stores or art salons. But as a last resort, you can make it yourself, or, easier to say, dig it in your garden or quarry. But usually it contains all sorts of unnecessary impurities, from which it needs to be cleaned.
Place the clay in a basin and fill it with water. When the clay has turned into slurry, put it in nylon tights and strain into another basin.
Wait until the clay thickens, do not forget to stir it.
Place the clay on a gypsum board. When one side of the clay is dry, transfer it to the other. But if you don’t have plaster, put the clay on oilcloth and leave it to dry in the sun. After the clay has thickened, squeeze the air out of it and place it in a plastic bag.
For modeling, take out the clay and store it under a damp towel.
We sculpt clay in the same way as plasticine, only the problem with it is that the individual parts do not mold well with each other. To do this, they make a so-called slip - this is clay in the form of a liquid-like mass. To connect parts, it is simply applied to it with a brush.
Master class by Marina Davidovich.
Materials:
baked clay product;
full fat milk;
universal acrylic primer;
acrylic paints;
glue varnish for decoupage;
water-based two-step craquelure varnishes;
Water-based acrylic varnish;
napkin with motif. Tools:
brushes, sponges;
sanding sponge.
