Location: Handbuilding Classroom

Description:

Decorated Surfaces - Underglazes, Glazes, and Terra Sigillata -  A Colour-filled Workshop with Zoe Pinnell

In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to explore sgraffito-based decorating techniques utilizing underglazes, glazes, and terra sigillata. Zoe will bring the class through creating imagery for your leatherhard pots with custom stenciled drawings and found textures, as well as building upon the imagery free-handedly to create inviting surfaces. Students will learn to experiment with uncommon techniques such as utilizing glaze on leather hard clay, as well as learn about finishing surfaces with earthenware terra sigillata on bone dry clay. In this workshop, Zoe will also briefly touch base on the handbuilding techniques she utilizes in her practice.

Workshop schedule:

9am - 10am:  Arrival and tech set-up (make sure your phone is capable of Zoom and is fully charged!)

10am - lunchtime:  Demonstration of a couple of the unique or unconventional hand building techniques Zoe uses in her work.

Demonstration of the use of imagery traced on plastic in conjunction with free-hand drawing and found textures to build up a layered and meaningful imagery.

Lunchtime - We will break for a 30 minute lunch only.  Please bring a packed, ready to eat lunch. 

Afternoon - Zoe will guide participants in the creation of imagery using traced imagery, found textures, sgrafitto tools, and Stroke & Coat glazes on leather hard tiles and/or your own leather hard pots.  Provided tiles will be red clay (M390) as red earthenware is used by Zoe. Participants will also learn how to finish surfaces with red clay-based terra sigillata on bone dry clay tiles and/or your own bone-dry pots to compliment and elevate your work's imagery.

The portions of the workshop containing Zoe's demonstrations will be available for viewing by workshop participants for 3 months following the workshop to give you more time to absorb and make notes on the lessons!

--- Please note that the entirety of the workshop will be recorded, but only the demonstrations by Zoe will be made available for viewing.  We may use tiny snippets of the total recording for promotional purposes but WILL NOT ever include images/videos of your person without a signed release from you ---

What's included: 

1) 2 leather-hard 4-inch tiles and 2 bone-dry 4-inch tiles, red terra sigillata, and a limited pallette of Stroke & Coat glazes.

2) Classroom sgrafitto and other tools, classroom textures, classroom paint brushes

What to bring:

1) Underglazes if you prefer to use them in place of Stroke-and-Coat glazes. We have a selection of Mayco underglazes available for purchase.

2) Your own leatherhard (creating imagery) or bone-dry (practicing terra sig) pots.  These can be any clay body, but we are only providing red terra sig.

3) Your favourite/commonly used tools for sgrafitto, carving, or texture if you have them as well as any of your favourite paintbrushes.

4) Images traced on plastic - overhead sheets, saran wrap, old clay bags, etc. are all suitable to use.  Images should fit on the provided tiles or on your brought work.

5) A ready to eat, packed lunch.  There will only be 1/2 hour for lunch.

6) Your cellphone capable of running Zoom.  Please ensure it is fully charged when you arrive and bring your charging cord.  We are working out a method to allow quick charging over the lunch break for any phones that need it.  You do not need to bring any kind of stand, we will be providing those.

 

 

 

Available spots: 1

Price: $145.00 Taxes not included

Tags: Hand Building Wheel Throwing Adult Workshops

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