Monday, August 5, 2024 9:30 AM
Vernon Community Arts Centre, 2704A BC 6, Vernon
Instructor: Amelia Butcher
Skill Level: Intermediate
August 5 to 9 | Monday to Friday, 9:30-3:30
Members $652.50 | Non-Members $725
Immerse yourself in an exciting ceramic workshop exploring a variety of surface decoration techniques before glazing. Expand on forms you are comfortable with, including wheel-thrown, coil, and other hand-built forms. Learn how to craft your own ceramic watercolours, pastels, pencils, and DIY slip transfers. Try wax inlay drawings and other techniques. Investigate the interaction between 2D designs and 3D forms, explore strategies for composition, and unleash your creativity as we blend drawing and clay work.
Day one kicks off with a dynamic drawing exercise before expanding on forms you are comfortable with, including coil building, wheel-thrown and hand-built forms. Day two is all about refining your what you created on day one and learning the magic of DIY slip transfers and wax inlay drawings. By day three, you’ll be creating your own ceramic pigments and decorating your bisqued pots using your homemade pigments, and experimenting with glazes to add depth and narrative. Day four learn more about the interaction between different materials with clay as well as using yesterday’s composition exercises to decorate our pieces. On day five, we add the finishing touches, explore selective glazing, and prepare your creations for their final firing. If time allows we’ll wrap up with a collaborative drawing exercise, celebrating your newfound skills and creativity.
Students should bring their own tools, an apron, and cone 5/6 clay. Appropriate clay bodies are M340, M370, M390, P300, or Coffee. Clay can be purchased at VCAC on the first day of class.
Note: All participants must be 17 year or older.
https://vernonarts.ca/classes/creativity-and-drawing-on-clay
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