To offer students and practitioners of the potter’s wheel a two-day intensive throwing workshop, to help students build on their own skills and develop their own styles.
To offer students and practitioners of the potter’s wheel a two-day intensive throwing workshop, to help students build on their own skills and develop their own styles. The tutor will introduce some new techniques for the workshop while also working with students to assist them to improve and build upon their own skills and develop their throwing discipline.
Requirement Of Course:
On The Day:
Workshop to commence with short demo from tutor and discussion of what students are looking for help with, then into it throwing and creating on the wheel until end of session. Between sessions pots will be set outside to dry ready for turning and final construction in the second session. Workshop to end with a debrief and options for firing.
We are committed to creating an educational atmosphere that makes learning an exciting experience. Our short courses are intended to empower adult learners to tackle challenges and take on experiences that may be new to them while keeping learning fun and dynamic.
The class will focus on developing the basic techniques of wheel throwing: centering clay, throwing tall cylinders, cups, bowls, turning and basic glazing.
Our pottery classes are held weekly with this new term running for seven weeks (instead of our usual eight weeks due to potentially moving studios!!), covering all the skills required to bring a ball of clay to life on the potter's wheel
Slapping out slabs of clay can produce fabulous platters by hand, curls up the edges to create a rim, using bowls as molds and decorating surface treatment creates beautiful salad bowls and a couple of pinch pots with spoons for salt and pepper. No experience needed to make your food and table come
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to learn to make a pot on the pottery wheel?
There is just something therapeutic and satisfying about working directly with your hands! In this course you will dive into various clay hand building techniques over this 4 week period, that will support you to create your own beautiful and unique sculptures for the home.
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