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Lisa Meixner

Online Pottery Lessons – Learn the basics of Wheelthrowing online

Here I am creating a space to share my passion for wheelthrowing online with you and help you developing your own practice in your studio or in a shared pottery workshop. You find here a complete step by step video course to learn the basics of throwing on the potter’s wheel. Based on my experience from teaching intensive pottery courses in my studio in Italy I show you all the tricks and problem solving around centering, throwing, trimming, decorating, glazing and firing ceramics.

My online classes are suitable for beginners, but also for potter’s with prior experience who would like to deepen their practice and learn new skills. To access the video lessons you can choose between three membership plans:

7 Days Trial Membership:  12 Euros            add to chart

30 Days Membership: 40 Euros          add to chart

90 Days Membership: 95 Euros      add to chart

What does the membership include?

  • access to 30+ professional video tutorials that help you learn the basics of throwing on the potter’s wheel
  • access to 20 professional video tutorials about glazing and decorating ceramics
  • access to 10 professional video tutorials to learn all the basics around programming a kiln and firing ceramics

What will I learn?

My online pottery lessons help you to learn step by step all the basics of throwing, decorating and firing ceramics. You can see a preview of all the online lessons available below.

If you have any questions please send an email to lisa@lisameixner.eu

PREVIEW ONLINE POTTERY LESSONS:

THROWING POTS

1) Preparing your clay for throwing on the potter’s wheel: clay wedging

In this video you will learn all the basics around clay wedging and preparing your clay to work on the potter’s wheel. Learning a good clay wedging technique is one of the keys to centering your clay well on the potter’s wheel. I show you step by step how to wedge clay and we look at how to solve some common problems with clay wedging.

2) Centering clay on the potter’s wheel

3) Opening the centered clay

4) Pulling a wall: Cylinder

5) Shaping a Form on the potter’s wheel

6) Finishing and taking a piece of the wheelhead

TRIMMING POTS – FOOTRING

1) Centering for trimming

2) Trimming and making a footring

3) Tipps to resolve common problems with trimming

4) Trimming different kinds of footrings

5) How to trimm a bowl

6) Trimming forms with a small neck

DECORATING POTS WITH CLAY SLIPS

1) Introduction: What are clay slips or engobes?

2) Decoration with clay slips: dipping

3) Decoration with clay slips: brush painting

4) Decoration with clay slips: engraving

5) Decoration with clay slips: layering colours

6) Decoration with clay slips: mixing & experimenting

FIRING CERAMICS

1) What is a kiln and how does it work?

2) Bisque Firing

3) Glaze Firing

4) Problem solving

GLAZING CERAMICS

1) What is a glaze?

2) How to apply glazes

3) Glaze firing

To access the video lessons you can choose between three membership plans:

7 Days Trial Membership:  12 Euros            add to chart

30 Days Membership: 40 Euros          add to chart

90 Days Membership: 95 Euros      add to chart