7 Weeks Evening Pottery Course: Pots, dishes, plates & more... 2023
€370.00
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7 Weeks Evening Pottery Course: Pots, dishes, plates & more... 6-8pm
DATES:
THURSDAYS 19th 26th Jan 2nd 9th 16th 23rd Feb 2nd March
THURSDAYS 9th 16th 23rd 30th March 6th 13th 20th April
TUESDAYS: 25 April 2 9 16 23 30 May 6 June
About the Course
Stoneware clay has been used for centuries to make pottery pieces that are useful and beautiful. This course teaches you how to make pieces by hand, which include a variety of useful objects, like pots, dishes, and platters - even jewellery pieces or buttons. You can also create your own piece of abstract work by hand if you prefer!
The workshops give you the opportunity to design and hand-make your very own pieces through a series of making and decorating techniques taught over the seven evenings, one evening per week. This course concentrates on hand-making techniques off the potting wheel.
Over the course of the 7 evenings you will learn to make different pieces using a slab roller, cutting and shaping tools. You will also learn how to decorate and glaze your work.
On completion of the course we will fire 3 of your favourite pieces for you that you have made and glazed throughout the course and contact you when they are ready for collection - usually within a few weeks after the course.
After your 7 workshops you will have learned how to:
Stamp - You will carve your own stamp from clay, creating your own potter’s stamp, which you will use to mark your own work, creating pattern and texture.
Slip decoration - Slip is a coloured or uncoloured liquified clay which can be treated like paint to decorate clay pieces. You will be taught how to use slip, opening up methods of decoration beyond traditional glazing. Slip can be used to create broad abstract textured images or flat precise detailed work.
Sgraffitto - You will be taught how to use the sgraffitto method of decoration, which is technically a form of slip decoration. Contrasting colours of slip are layered onto your unfired clay. Your design or pattern is then scratched or carved into the dried slip to reveal the different colours beneath.
TIME: 7 evenings, from 6pm - 8pm

