Pottery – Clay Decoration Workshop
Have you ever wanted to put your own designs onto pottery? In this one-off session, you’ll learn three ways to bring images to life on clay. No experience needed. Everything is provided, and you’ll leave with your own decorated pieces - once they have been glazed and fired for you.
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Description
Pottery: Clay Decoration Workshop
Have you ever wanted to put your own designs onto pottery? In this one-off session, you’ll learn three ways to bring images to life on clay. No experience needed. Everything is provided, and you’ll leave with your own decorated pieces ready for the kiln. Once these pieces have been fired and glazed for you at Selwyn College you will need to collect them at a later date to be arranged.
What we’ll do
Your tutor Kate will demonstrate clay decoration techniques, then you’re free to try whichever ones you like:
1. Wax resist inlay: Carve lines into a soft wax coating on a clay form, then watch coloured slip (liquid clay) fill the lines to create crisp, detailed drawings.
2. Sgraffito: Coat your piece in coloured clay slip, then scratch through it to reveal the clay colour underneath.
3. Monoprint transfer: Draw onto glass prepared with coloured oxides, then print it onto clay. Your drawing transfers straight onto the surface.
Expected learning outcomes
On completion of the workshop it is expected that you will be able to:
- Know how to handle and work with clay
- See how clay changes as it dries, and the best moment to decorate it
- Know key pottery and printmaking terms and techniques
- Learn what happens after making and decorating clay items: the bisque and glaze firings that turn your work into finished ceramics.
Following the firings you will have your own uniquely designed pottery piece which will be ready for you to collect.
Who should attend?
Those new to pottery wishing to learn how to decorate clay, beginners or those with some clay making experience.
